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Enemy love and the reinvention of identity
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 This article investigates the reception of Jesus’ command to ‘turn the other cheek’ and ‘love your enemies’, as found in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:38–48, among Christian Palestinians.
Katja Ekman
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Relaciones Internacionales, 2022 This article’s objective is to place the modern history of Iran in relation to nonviolent struggles within the optic of the role of women within them, and to link these episodes with the feminist struggle in Iran.
Sheida Besozzi
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Comparing Gandhi’s Concept of Satyagraha with that of Jihad in Islam [PDF]
Journal of World Sociopolitical Studies, 2021 This paper compares Islamic teachings regarding Jihad with Gandhi’s Satyagraha or non-violent resistance. Abdul Ghaffar Khan, one of Gandhi’s Muslim followers, has argued that not only was Islam compatible with non-violent methods, but that Prophet ...
Fatemeh Mohammadi
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Constructive work and reclaiming the commons as decolonizing nonviolent resistance
Relaciones Internacionales, 2018 Scholars of nonviolent resistance, in particular, almost exclusively focus on oppositional action against oppressive forces. They pay much less attention to positive dimensions of resistance that allow practitioners to create alternative social ...
Sean CHABOT
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Did Nonviolent Resistance Fail in Kosovo? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 A standard narrative is that nonviolence failed in Kosovo: the Milosevic regime was ended by a NATO bombing campaign. This essay exposes errors in this narrative. Nonviolent resistance inside Kosovo succeeded in unifying the Kosovar masses against the Milosevic regime. That solidarity was crucial to victory.
Marsavelski, Aleksandar +2 more
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Activists Against Autocrats: TSMO Networks and Democratic Diffusion
Frontiers in Political Science, 2021 Do transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) promote the international diffusion of democracy? If so, how? Scholars of democratization have studied a plethora of international factors in the spread of democracy, including geographic or regional
Jonathan Pinckney, John Joseph Chin
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Was Faust a member of ′Otpor′? On subjectivistic objectivism and objectivistic subjectivism in the interpretation of (post)modern social and political movements [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2007 The paper represents an attempt to channel polemical exchanges concerning the process of democratization in Serbia into the frames of scientific dialogue which is considered here to be a more productive genre of scientific communication than are polemics.
Naumović Slobodan
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Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, 2022 Of Back Stories, Byways & Entangled Aesthetics of Epistemology: Teaching Art, Poetic Protest and Curricular Alterity in a Time of Ethicide engages autobiographical analysis to illumine and offer examples of what art and poetry may offer as forms of ...
Molly Quinn
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"Flame of Truth": the global significance of Doukhobor Pacifism
Российский журнал истории Церкви, 2023 The Doukhobors (Spirit Wrestlers), a heterogeneous group of Christians in Russia and Canada, whose anti-war stance became well known when they organized a Burning of Arms ceremony in 1895, inhabit an undisputed placein the history of the peace churches ...
Christian Bartolf, Dominique Miething
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Memory and Mobilization? Identity, Narrative and Nonviolent Resistance in the Palestinian Intifadas
Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2013 To what extent did first Intifada memories and experiences influence nonviolent activism in the second Intifada? Specifically, how did prior individual or collective identities contribute to activists opting for nonviolent strategies in the post-Oslo ...
Julie Norman
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