Essays about: "importance of Nonviolence"
Found 4 essays containing the words importance of Nonviolence.
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1. What makes nonviolent resistance movements successful?
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : Abstract Social uprisings that attempt to achieve social change through nonviolentmethods are not a new phenomenon, but researchers have so far not beenable to determine the factors that lead to their success. This study engages inthat debate by looking at three ongoing cases of nonviolent resistancemovements, in Sudan, Myanmar, and Lebanon, and applying the lens ofErica Chenoweth’s framework, as that is the most recent work on the topic. READ MORE
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2. Building Peace from Within : Perspectives of Syrian Youth
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : This study is based on the perspectives of Syrian youth, on how they can contribute to and participate in future peace initiatives for Syria. The purpose of the study is to investigate opportunities and barriers to youth’s participation for peace, as well as the instrumental role of education in learning about nonviolent pathways for change. READ MORE
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3. Ethics of Relationality, Practices of Nonviolence : A Reading of Butler's Ethics
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeAbstract : The purpose of this essay is to examine Judith Butler’s approach to the problem of ethics, and the ways in which she attempts to reformulate notions of morality and responsibility based on an understanding of the subject as inherently bound to others within a context of normative structures that exceed its own influence. For Butler, this bond implies that the subject’s constitution is structured within what she calls a ”scene of address,” where it emerges into a social field by being appealed to by others, and replying to that appeal by giving an account of itself. READ MORE
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4. Waging Nonviolent Struggle- : The Importance of Having a Strategy
University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskapAbstract : This is a theoretical study of the importance of adopting a strategy when waging a nonviolent struggle on governmental oppression. It serves as a preparatory study for future research about the method of non-violent struggle. READ MORE
