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Deterrence Through Resilience and Civil Preparedness: The Comprehensive and Militarised Models of Civil Defence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As hybrid threats blur the line between war and peace and challenge conventional deterrence logics, states increasingly turn to concepts of resilience, civil preparedness and whole‐of‐society as elements of their security strategies. This raises the question of how civilian agency can be viewed as an element of deterrence and what the ...
Agata Mazurkiewicz, Heljä Ossa
wiley   +1 more source

Undeterred: How Collective Nonviolent Identity Enables Persistence Amidst Surveillance and Infiltration among New York City Direct Action Activists

Partecipazione e Conflitto
Scholars have debated whether state repression demobilizes or radicalizes social movements, but the conditions under which nonviolent direct action groups maintain confrontational tactics despite surveillance, particularly in the post-COINTELPRO era ...
Charlotte Thomas-Hébert
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Myanmar’s Coup d’état and the Struggle for Federal Democracy and Inclusive Government

Religions, 2022
This article reviews the first twelve months of the civil disobedience movement in Myanmar following the 1 February 2021 coup d’état and its many dynamics and manifestations.
Anna S. King
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Dilemmas of Civilian Participation in Military Deterrence and Defence: Legal and Ethical Dimensions

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can civilians participate in deterrence and defence in ways that do not jeopardize their immunity from deliberate attack? The principle of civilian immunity from deliberate attack in war is a core element of contemporary international humanitarian law (IHL). Uniformed combatants and others who take up arms pose a threat may be liable to be
Neta C. Crawford
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Deliberation in an Age of (Un)Civil Resistance

Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2020
There is currently a global wave of protest movements whose militant tactics cannot be subsumed under the category of nonviolent civil disobedience. There has, concurrently, been a surge of interest among political philosophers in the idea of ‘uncivil ...
William Smith
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Unraveling authoritarian reform decision‐making: A metacognitive–subcognitive model

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent research indicates that state reforms in East and Southeast Asia have been predominantly top‐down and authoritarian‐led. However, this significant observation implicitly relies on important assumptions about authoritarian decision‐making behavior and psychology that remains understudied.
Eugene Yu Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar's Borderlands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
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Romare Bearden’s "Mauritius" (1969): Wars, Nations, and Everything Else

Panorama, 2018
Considering the era of its making—the decade of the Vietnam War and resistance to it in many national capitals, anti-government protests across the globe, and both nonviolent and armed uprisings against institutional discrimination and social inequity ...
Jacqueline Francis
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Gandhi and the World of the Hebrew Bible: The Case of Daniel as Satyagrahi

Religions, 2022
Among the biblical characters used as examples in developing and explaining satyagraha, Daniel is the most important after Jesus. In Gandhi’s speeches and writings from 1909 to 1946, Daniel served as the ideal satyagrahi both in South Africa and in India.
Ed Noort
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Mass Mobilising for Climate Action: A Member‐Driven Innovation Process in a Nongovernmental Organisation

Creativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental organisations (EOs) are not‐for‐profit organisations that contribute to responsible innovation (RI) efforts to mitigate the climate crisis as central catalysts in society. While the RI discourse in management research acknowledges that collaboration between a broad variety of actors is necessary to foster climate action, so far ...
Ida Raunkjær, Patricia Wolf, Szabolcs Dezso Fabian   +2 more
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