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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"non-violence"”.
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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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Evaluating Violence and (Non)violence: A Critical, Practical Theology of Social Change
… theological approach to evaluate Christian (non)violence in light of interviews with twelve scholars and activists in the United States about the means of social change and the relationship of those means to social location. Social location conditions an understanding of what violence is and …
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Peace research in non-violence contexts: a case study among the Southwest Nigerian Yorùbá
… their disputes, crises, and conflicts to avoid violence and maintain peace within their host Yorùbá culture, religion, and values. The qualitative method of inquiry used here involved focus groups and interviews to generate primary data, which I analysed with thick description. One of the main …
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Between Johannesburg and Jerusalem: A Comparative Analysis of Non-Violence as a Strategy for Political Change; the Case of Apartheid South Africa and the Occupied Territories of Palestine/Israel
Non-violence as a mechanism of political change has been applied with differing degrees of success. While such struggles have born fruit in some instances, they have faltered in others. Using Most Similar Systems Design, this study examines factors underpinning the variability in outcomes with the …
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Three essays on the sustainable macroeconomic policies
… of fiscal policy in terms of linearity vs. non-linearity of fiscal reaction function, and especially the semi-parametric approaches are employed. Moreover, the threshold of fiscal policy regime switches and the interaction between monetary and fiscal policies are also investigated. Finally, …
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Studying Janus behavior : how support, deterrence, grievances and organizational structure shape violent and peaceful behaviors
… abound of movements once entirely fixated on violence who choose to enter the political arena, exchanging politics by force for politics of a gentler sort. These groups exhibit "Janus-faced" personalities, simultaneously including militancy and nonviolent mobilization in their toolbox of …
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How Insurgent Groups Emerge: The political process in democratic Nigeria
How did two non-state actors from significantly different regions develop into insurgent organizations in Nigeria after its return to democratic rule on 29 May 1999? Although the northeast and Niger Delta regions are poles apart in historical, material, and socio-cultural structures, they bore the …
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Questioning the efficacy of violence to achieve security : the 1991 Gulf War
… Relations theory tends to assume that the use of violence is both necessary and effective. Supporters of non-violence however propose that violence is not effective to achieve ones aims. This study will question these contrasting perspectives by asking to what degree violence is effective in …
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leadership and early childhood education for sustainability: a multiple case study
… social and economic justice, and (d) democracy, non-violence, and peace. The aim of this study was to describe leadership traits and leadership experiences of leaders in early childhood settings that demonstrated sustainability principles. Purposeful sampling was used to gain three participants. …
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Effectiveness of the Prenatal to Three Parenting Classes: A Program Evaluation
… discipline, appropriate health practices, non-violence, and an understanding of the importance of literacy, healthy nutritional practices, and culture, provide a strong foundation for positive family practices. The Prenatal to Three Initiative Program of San Mateo’s Public Health Department …
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Trust in music: Musical projects against violence in northern Colombia
… by cycles of pervasive distrust and violence. The people I work with are involved in projects across the north of the country aimed in part at breaking these cycles. In this dissertation I offer an applied ethnographic analysis of the dynamic relations between local forms of trusting, …
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A Theological critique of the Christian pacifist perspective with special reference to the position of John Howard Yoder
… a view to engaging in the theological debate on violence and non-violence. Given the wide ranging nature of this debate it is, however, necessary to ground such a discussion in a given context. South Africa has been chosen for this purpose because of my own sense of shared responsibility for the …
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Understanding Hindus' and Muslims' solutions for peace in Gujarat, India
… on peacebuilding efforts after the Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002.Members of a local NGO collaborated on the project by acting as gatekeepers in the field. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in Hindi with twenty-nine adult men and women (20 to 64 years old) from both the Hindu …
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Cultural Nationalism in the Age of Mass Media: Television and the Struggle Over Meaning in Wales
… and tactics based on direct action and non-violence. On the other hand, the television campaign provided a way back into cultural issues for the emerging national left. Cultural issues had been rejected earlier by leftist political activists as trivial, or as belonging to bourgeois or …
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Mamas of Invention: Popular Education, Gender and Development among Womens Organizations in Kenya
… educators, activists, and others who call for non-formal education in the absence of effective schools. The formal education of women and girls has been neglected in Kenya and throughout Africa due to cultural, political, and economic barriers. Tensions have arisen between indigenous, Islamic, …
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Citizen-Subjectivity, Experiential Evaluation, and Activist Strategies: Explaining Algerian Violence and Polish Peace under Authoritarian Rule
This project explains Polish non-violence and Algerian violence under martial law following peaceful protests against comparable material deprivation and authoritarian political exclusion. From narratives of state formation, institutional performance, and social movement evolution in postwar Poland …
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A violent origin : a Girardian analysis of the scapegoating of Ali ibn Abu Talib in Shi'ite tradition
… voice. He maintains that only Jesus supported a non-violent position and embraced positive mimetic desire in the form of imitating the love of God. In reviewing Ali's life, one discovers that it reveals Girard's concepts of mimetic rivalry, conspiracy and collective violence. There is the …
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“The Price of a Woolworth’s Burger:” The Importance and Overshadowing of the Nashville Sit-Ins
<p>This thesis examines the sit-in demonstrations that used direct action and civil disobedience to target segregation at store lunch counters. The Nashville demonstrations were the last sit-in protests to occur that are discussed in this thesis, which also examines the protests in Wichita and …
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The political orientation of Dr Nelson R. Mandela and iNkosi Mangosuthu G. Buthelezi – a comparative study
… analysis include their respective commitments to non-violence versus armed struggle, their approaches to negotiations and reconciliation, their visions for a post-apartheid South Africa, and their relationships with other political actors and movements. By examining these dimensions, this …
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