Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Nonviolent Resistance"”.
-
Understanding the outcomes and aftermaths of nonviolent resistance
… in the immediate and long-term success of nonviolent resistance movements. It consists of three discrete papers. The first introduces three "organizational technologies of resistance:" a loose confederal, or "umbrella" administrative structure; a robust "operational core," or cadre of …
-
Fostering Global Security: Nonviolent Resistance and US Foreign Policy
… as relevant categories for theorizing nonviolent resistance. Principled nonviolence, while retaining the primacy of ethics, is often not practical. Indeed, most nonviolent movements have not been principled, or solely principled. Strategic nonviolence is attractive because it does not …
-
The Catholic Church and the nonviolent resistance in Chile.
When can nonviolent action be effective? That is the question that originally initiated this research project. While studying the different factors scholars believe to be important to a successful nonviolent action, I discovered that hardly any study examined whether religion impacted the success …
-
Barriers to Nonviolent Resistance: Identities, Aims and State Responses to Dissent
… of this PhD thesis examines the barriers to nonviolent resistance and explains why, despite the grievances, we see uprisings in some states and not others. I argue that a lack of common ties and the existence of ethnic cleavages create additional barriers for nonviolent mass mobilization in …
-
Protest without repression : protest policing and nonviolent resistance in the US
Activists often identify violent repression, and ensuing backlash, as a key mechanism through which peaceful protests can successfully achieve political change. This view has been affirmed by a body of research showing that the violent repression of protest can raise awareness of and build support …
-
Connection and Resistance: Civilian experiences of violence in conflict zones and their impact on civilians’ political preferences for violent and nonviolent resistance
… conflict zones and provides the foundation for nonviolent political participation, including civil resistance. The implications of these findings point to possible changes in policies adopted by (i) governments and counterinsurgents seeking to avoid civilian militancy and (ii) civil resistance …
-
Rhetorics of Everyday Resistance: The Belgrade 1996/97 Student Protest
… project, I explore and theorize how practices of resistance emerge and function within a nondemocratic political context. I identify the 1996/97 student protest as a pivotal event of nonviolent resistance in Serbia during the 1990s, focusing on the rhetorical tactics employed to subvert and …
-
Privileged Resistance: Prisoners of Conscience in the United States, 1980-2013
… for six months or more as a result of nonviolent resistance. It explores how they intentionally use and learn about their own privilege in solidarity actions that land them in the belly of the imperial beast; the prison. It traces the lives of forty three such prisoners of conscience, …
-
The Role of State and Non-State Actors in Determining Violent and Nonviolent Tactics in Political Conflict
… seeks to explain the choices of violent and nonviolent tactics in political conflict. It consists of three papers that focus on different aspects pertaining to the initiation and development of internal political conflict considering violence and nonviolence as potential mobilization …
-
Cover stories & undercover stories apartheid South Africa 1969-1984
… Africa as the “aboveground” opposition – legal, nonviolent political organizing –alongside the histories of exile and armed struggle. Narratives of the anti-apartheid struggle that stress the importance of the armed struggle tend to negate or obscure nonviolent forms of resistance. Contrary to …