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A dynamic model of nonviolent resistance strategy. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Why have some nonviolent revolutions succeeded even with modest participation numbers, while others have failed despite massive mobilization? We develop an agent-based model that predicts the outcomes of three well-known activism strategies.
Erica Chenoweth +2 more
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Gandhi and the Gender of Nonviolent Resistance
Religions, 2022 The special issue of which this article forms a part looks at human violence and tries to investigate religious potentials to strengthen the case for nonviolence as the preferred method of social change.
Louise Du Toit
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Religions, 2021 This article puts political philosopher Judith Butler in conversation with Gandhi, on the topic of nonviolent resistance. More particularly, we compare them on a systematic philosophical level. Although we focus on Gandhi’s more activist side, by delving
Louise Du Toit, Jana Vosloo
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Research & Politics, 2020 The color revolutions in Eastern Europe and the recent waves of protests in the Middle East and North Africa show that nonviolent conflicts, like violent conflicts, spread across countries.
Babak RezaeeDaryakenari, Peyman Asadzade
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Research & Politics, 2020 There is growing consensus that large oil and gas revenues in autocracies have multiple pernicious effects, from decreasing democratization to increasing armed conflict: the so-called “resource curse.” Yet we know little about the effects of oil and gas ...
Jonathan Pinckney
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The Role of Violence in Nonviolent Resistance
Annual Review of Political Science, 2023 Over the past two decades, there has been growing scholarly interest in nonviolent resistance—a method of conflict in which unarmed people mobilize collective protests, strikes, and boycotts in a coordinated way. Mass movements that rely overwhelmingly on nonviolent resistance sometimes feature unarmed collective violence, fringe violence, or even ...
Erica Chenoweth
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Self-harm as a form of resistance in the juvenile detention center Jugendhaus Halle in the 1980s [PDF]
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental HealthBackground Of the twelve youth prisons in the German Democratic Republic, known as Jugendhäuser, the one in Halle was notorious for the violence among its inmates.
Oxana Kosenko, Florian Steger
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Communicare, 2022 This article focuses on the idea of nonviolent resistance as a strategy of agitation and whether it can help to promote unity through communication in South Africa.
Johann Cornelius de Wet
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The Art of Resistance: Art and Resistance in Palestine (Vol.12, N.2, Thematic dossier)
Janus.net, 2022 Resistance can take many forms. In Palestine, to exist is to resist. For the last fifty-four years Palestinians have found many inventive and innovative ways to resist the Israeli occupation, and one of those ways, but certainly not the only ...
Mafalda Young
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The Grammar and Socio-Political Implications of Kierkegaard’s Christian Virtue of Meekness
Religions, 2023 This paper argues that in Kierkegaard’s works, in his upbuilding discourses and late journal entries in particular, meekness or gentleness (Danish: Sagtmodighed) is presented as a distinctive moral and spiritual quality that exhibits a number of ...
Pieter Vos
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