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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Nonviolent action"”.
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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 …
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Gandhi as a political organiser. An analysis of Iocal and national campaigns in India 1915-1922.
… " Gandhi named his philosophy and his method of action, "satyagraha". Between 1915 and 1922 he emerged as the organiser of local satyagraha campaigns in Bihar and Gujarat. He moved quickly, however, to leadership of further struggles at a national level, in particular the hoxlatt Satyagraha in …
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The political effectiveness of non-state violence : paradox, polarity, and the pursuit of power
… goals that are characterized by collective action challenges against external enemies, such as the founding of a new state, while they simultaneously engage in zero-sum competition for organizational dominance with internal rivals. The central hypothesis of the structuralist theory is that …
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Civilian Autonomy and Resilience in the Midst of Armed Conflict
… an individual's valuable and private social interactions. I find that survivors of criminal violence with strong ties to kinship networks are most likely to attend political meetings. By highlighting variation in behavior across victims, I challenge previous work which only examines differences in …