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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Nonviolence"”.
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State repression, nonviolence, and protest mobilization
… withstand state repression. However, the role of nonviolence is partial and to some degree inadequate in explaining repression backfire if it is not linked to other general factors which include protest diversity, protest threat level, and geographic terrain.
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History, Nonviolence, and the Experience of Values
… Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: History, Nonviolence, and the Experience of Values MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Randall E. Auxier The goal of this dissertation is to address the question: what are values? To carry out this inquiry in a manner which will provide new insights into the complexity, …
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Toward Better Knowledge: A Social Epistemology of Pragmatic Nonviolence
… quality of knowledge gained through the use of nonviolence, it is argued, is far superior to the kind and quality of knowledge gained through the use of violence. This dissertation attempts to settle the discussion of the priority and value of nonviolence as a social epistemology by arguing for, …
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Mass-Based Violence or Nonviolence: Differential Responses to Ghettoization
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212291.pdf: 10152926 bytes, checksum: b4858bd982ade4969768e8a4b6f2dc2e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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American Murids: Muslim proponents of nonviolence open alternative conversations about Islam, jihad and immigration
… practice the spiritual and ethical values of nonviolence learned from their founder, Shaykh Amadu Bamba. Starting with historical analysis and drawing on primary sources in Wolofal this study analyses what influenced Bamba towards the practices of nonviolence he developed. Then, through …
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Fostering Global Security: Nonviolent Resistance and US Foreign Policy
… comprehensively evaluates, for the first time, nonviolence and its relationship to International Relations (IR) theory and US foreign policy along the categories of principled, strategic, and regulative nonviolence. The current debate within nonviolence studies is between principled and …
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A conflict management module based on the Kingian principles of nonviolence: a strategy for reducing violence
… Module based on the Kingian Philosophy of Nonviolence. A comparative analysis of attitudes about the use of violence to manage conflict and conflict handling styles of students before and after infusing the Conflict Management module into their regular classroom instruction was conducted. …
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Ontology, ecclesiology, nonviolence : the witness against war in the theologies of John Howard Yoder, Dorothy Day, and William Stringfellow.
This dissertation argues that nonviolence bears witness to a particular form of social existence visible in the church. War, I argue, describes a form of social existence which is a counter social ontology to the existence given by Christ to the church. By examining the interrelationship of social …
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Nonviolent Bodies and the Experience of Breakdown in the American Movement for Civil Rights
… was triggered in individuals by the practice of nonviolence and contends that breakdown precipitated the Movement's shift away from nonviolence toward the more self-protective tactic of black power.
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Nine Peaceful Defenders of Headwaters at Redwood Summer: True for Me. Get It Done. Was it Worthy? What Got in the Way?
… visibility and understanding of the community of nonviolence for activists, general public, and theorists of social change. Nine peaceful activists (five men and fourwomen) took part in a series of actions known as the Redwood Summer, intended to protect Californias Pacific northwestern rainforest …
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Contentious Subjects: Non/violence as Topic and Trope in the Occupy Movement
… within the Occupy movement around the word nonviolence, and why was this disagreement so generationally marked? Why were the social movements in the 2011 global wave of unrest so suddenly disruptive, even violent, almost always involving riots? What does this have to teach us about the …
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The Role of State and Non-State Actors in Determining Violent and Nonviolent Tactics in Political Conflict
… political conflict considering violence and nonviolence as potential mobilization outcomes. The overarching theme is the actor-centric approach to delineating the determinants of nonviolent and violent forms of opposition. This thesis focuses on state and non-state actors to elucidate how …
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A theoretical and practical analysis of the use of violence within contemporary civil disobedience
… within which the discussions will be developed. Nonviolence is regarded most commonly as the sole, or at least primary demeanour to be adopted by civil disobedients. In Chapter Two this concept is considered from the point of view of both theorists and exponents of civil disobedience. Particular …
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Gandhi as a political organiser. An analysis of Iocal and national campaigns in India 1915-1922.
… -- one which focuses on his propagation of nonviolence "as a way of life", the other- which treats him as a pioneer in the use of nonviolence "as a conflict technique. " Gandhi named his philosophy and his method of action, "satyagraha". Between 1915 and 1922 he emerged as the organiser of …
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The Art of the Bodge: Understanding bodging as a methodology when working with themes of sexual violence in the mediums of sculpture and writing
… aftermath of sexual violence. The definitions of nonviolence in Judith Butler’s The Force of Nonviolence (2021) underpin the methodological approaches in this research. The thesis reflects on intuitive responses to being within the ‘forcefield of power’, and this is understood as ‘bodging’. The …
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Patterns of human awareness and action : an interpretation of Gandhi's world view in comparative perspective
… interactions tend toward violence or nonviolence. Using the theoretical resources of the comparative study of mysticism and religious experience, I set out to define the precise analytical contours of my two paradigms of human awareness and world view. It is in fact the study of …
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Bayard Rustin and the Socialist Civil Rights Strategy (1955-65)
… introducing him to the ideology and practice of nonviolence. Through In Friendship, a Northern fundraising group he co-founded, and his pacifist network, Rustin created pathways for Northerners to support the Southern activists.
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Grassroots Community Peacebuilding in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Identifying Local Perceptions of the Causes of and Means of Preventing Interpersonal Violence
… include the development of skills that promote nonviolence and peace.
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Dialogue and Resistance. An Evaluation of Two Approaches to Peace Campaigning at RAF Molesworth (1980-1987)
… that strict adherence to a discipline of nonviolence was necessary if such a group was to wield sufficient political power to coerce their opponent to accede to their demands. The efficacy of nonviolent direct action was put to the test over a seven-year period at RAF Molesworth in …
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