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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Peace movement"”.
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The Sheffield peace movement 1934-1940.
… of the thesis was to build a portrait of a local peace movement in order to contrast and compare it with existing descriptions of the peace movement written from a national perspective. The Sheffield Peace Movement is examined from the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the outbreak of …
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Cycles of protest in the post-war British peace movement
… and explain the dynamics of the post-war British peace movement. This examination will account for, and link the two distinct phases of activity which encompassed at their peaks, the periods of 1958 to 1960, and 1981 to 1983. The defence issue declined in salience in the intervening years and was …
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Fear of peace? : Australian government responses to the peace movement 1949-1959
… to the threat posed by the Communist inspired peace movement during the early Cold War period, between 1949 and 1959. The thesis will particularly focus on the Government's efforts to restrict the movements of peace activists through the imposition of travel controls, most notably passport bans.
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Impact of peace movements on a society immersed in conflict. An analysis of the framing processes of the Basque peace movement.
… Basque Country has been the scene of an intense peace mobilization, dominated by two peace organizations: Gesto por la Paz, a group of community organizations that mobilize to publicly reject political violence, and Lokarri/Elkarri, an organization that includes a conflict resolution proposal …
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Voices in the Wind: American Opposition to the Korean War
<p>Very little has been written on the peace movement during the Korean war. Historian Joseph Conlin assessed the period and concluded that "when hostilities with North Korean troops commenced in 1950, the American antiwar movement stood at its nadir." Lawrence Wittner's fine book Rebels Against …
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Conflict in the Unions: The Communist Party of Australia, politics and the trade union movement, 1945-1960
… party of Australia (CPA) in the trade union movement between 1945 and 1960. It represents the first systematic scholarly analysis of this activity. The historiography of the CPA has generally focused on the industrial activity of CPA trade union members and has neglected this dimension. The …
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Art Used as a Therapeutic Intervention Between Isralie Arabs and Jews
… al Salam", "Givat Haviva" and "Interns For Peace" were founded to encourage rapprochement between these two ethnic groups. Among the many interventions being employed by these organizations is the use of art. This qualitative study, conducted in Israel at the three organizations cited above, …
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‘Save Spain’: British Support for the Spanish Republic within Civil Society in Britain, 1936–1939
… considering the response to ‘Spain’ within the peace movement, Co-operative movement and amongst British Christians. The thesis challenges the idea that many of those involved with the humanitarian campaigns saw Spain as a distant country and that they were detached from events there. It argues …
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Liberian Women and Political Resistance: Family Influences and Collective Organizing
… Liberian women formed a transnational network of peace activists that ended civil war in their home in 2003. Numerous grassroots organizations, market women, legal aid workers, and women’s rights advocates developed spaces to address multilevel consequences from the war, both leading to and after …
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To the Wall: London's Murals and 'the Left', 1975-1986
… nuclear apocalypse and hopes of the contemporary peace movement; analysing the murals’ place within Cold War iconography the chapter argues that the murals established a metonymic relation to wider-ranging resistances to Thatcherism’s ascent across the first half of the 1980s. Throughout, a focus …
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Soviet culture and cultural exchange in Mexico during the Cold War
… how these publications promoted and defended the peace movement in Mexico, and how this movement was connected to the Stalin cult, particularly from 1947 to 1953. Since the journals adopted the national optic promoted by the Soviet Stalinist rhetoric—patriotic pride, the right to national …
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Protection, Feud and Royal Power: Violence and its Regulation in English Law, c. 850 – c. 1250.
… protections merged and expanded into a general peace are all examined. The picture that emerges is once again one in which protective power plays a major role. The final chapter looks at wider ideological trends, such as the Peace Movement and the representation of crime as treachery to the …
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Dialogue and Resistance. An Evaluation of Two Approaches to Peace Campaigning at RAF Molesworth (1980-1987)
Mohandas K. Gandhi believed that by engaging in various forms of nonviolent direct action a campaigning group could win over, or convert, even the hardest opponent to their cause. He also suggested that strict adherence to a discipline of nonviolence was necessary if such a group was to wield …
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Kvinnor mot krig : aktioner och nätverk för fred 1914–1940
… is to investigate how and why women established peace actions during World War I and the period between the wars. I have examined how women were mobilized, how the actions were carried out, what kind of opposition was awakened, and what happened afterwards. My startingpoint is collective actions …