Essays about: "Belarus protests 2020"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Belarus protests 2020.

1. 1. The Black Knight Rises : A mixed-methods analysis of the impacts of external support to regimes on the success of nonviolent resistance movements

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

   Author : Samuel Maret; [2023]
   Keywords : Nonviolent resistance success; Black Knights; external support; Belarus;

   Abstract : Nonviolent campaigns often extend beyond national boundaries, attracting the attention and involvement of international actors. However, our understanding of the effects of external support on the outcomes of nonviolent protests remains limited. Existing research mainly focuses on internal factors of success or concentrates on one or few cases. READ MORE

3. 2. Contagion, Contention, and Content: Political Mobilization on Telegram in the 2020 Belarusian post-Election Protests

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Vide Wassberg; [2022]
   Keywords : Telegram; Belarus; Protest; Participation; Mobilization; Connective Action; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study aims to scrutinize the role of the social media application Telegram as a protest mobilizing structure during the 2020 post-election uprising in Minsk, Belarus. The purpose is to strengthen the understanding on how protest mobilizations online relate to offline protest participation in authoritarian states, and how the usage of social media in social movements impact, and is influenced by, its authoritarian context. READ MORE

4. 3. Non-violent resistance movements in the light of digital repression

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

   Author : Anna Plaudina; [2022]
   Keywords : repression; digital repression; backfire effect; censorship; Belarus; digital revolution; mobilization; ICT; Telegram revolution;

   Abstract : Over the past decade, the success rate of non-violent resistance movements has decreased. With the development of information and communication technology (ICT), governments have taken repression into the digital realm to tamper with protest movements. READ MORE

5. 4. The EU’s democracy assistance efforts in Belarus - An analysis of the character of EU democracy assistance and involvement in the mass protests of 2020-2021 in Belarus

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Fanny Flyborg; [2021-08-30]
   Keywords : European Union; Belarus; Democracy; Mass Protests; Linkage; Leverage; Democracy Assistance; Authoritarian; Civil Society;

   Abstract : During recent events, Belarus has come under the light due to the falsified re-election of Lukashenko in 2020. Mass protests arose, and the civil society’s demand for democracy became clear. READ MORE

6. 5. Triadic Relationship Between Social Movement,News Media, and Geopolitics : Government affiliated transnational media and its’ coverage of 2020-2021 Belarusian Protests

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

   Author : Karolina Kukstaite; [2021]
   Keywords : Belarus protests 2020; transnational media; geopolitics; social movements; media framing;

   Abstract : As the media followed the turn of events in Belarus, increasing arrests and the violence that followed brought tens of thousands of Belarusians into the streets to demand change, end police brutality, and display how far human rights abuses have come in Lukashenko's regime. This thesis argues that in the cases like this, foreign media comes forward to either further protester's voices or shut them down, which, drawing on the previous research, is considered dependent on the geopolitical relations of the countries involved. READ MORE