Essays about: "nonviolent conflict"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words nonviolent conflict.

  1. 1. The Cost of Respect : A qualitative study on the relationship between peace communities and governments in civil wars

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

    Author : Carolyne Wilhelm; [2023]
    Keywords : peace community; nonviolent; peace zone; civilian agency; government; local peace; costly signals; Sagada; Tulunan; Cantomayog; ATCC;

    Abstract : Peace communities are an “organized and sustained civilian mobilization in the midst of civil war to declare neutrality and to purposely end or prevent violent conflict in their community” (Kaplan. 2017). READ MORE

  3. 2. Are Pious Protesters Powerful? : A quantitative analysis assessing the effect of religious support on the success of unarmed civil resistance campaigns

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

    Author : Utami Sandyarani; [2022]
    Keywords : nonviolent campaigns; protest; unarmed civil resistance; unarmed civil insurrection; civil disobedience; religion; religious institution; religious actors; mobilising structure; resilience; large-N study;

    Abstract : There is an ample body of literature which seek to investigate the role of religion in armed conflict. Yet, the role of religion in unarmed civil resistance has not received an equal amount of scholarly attention. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Diminished Success of Nonviolent Conflicts : A quantitative analysis

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

    Author : Jonas Holmberg; [2022]
    Keywords : nonviolent conflict; nonviolent resistance; nonviolent struggle; success; mobilization; resilience; leverage; NAVCO;

    Abstract : This paper investigates the decline in success of nonviolent conflicts. While nonviolent conflicts are known to have higher efficacy compared to violent conflicts, this disparity has decreased since the 1990s. READ MORE

  5. 4. Resisting Corporations : Violent and Nonviolent Conflict in the context of Natural Resource Extraction

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

    Author : Jakob Faller; [2022]
    Keywords : civil resistance; nonviolent resistance; violent resistance; natural resource extraction; oil; multination corporations; MOSOP; MEND; U’wa; ELN;

    Abstract : Corporations in the resource extraction industry are frequently criticized and their operations opposed by local communities demanding more benefits, compensation for negative consecuences or oppose resource extraction altogether. Research has focused extensively on nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns that target state and quasi-state actors attempting regime change or self-determination. READ MORE

  6. 5. Nonviolence Under the Microscope: A multipurposed study of nonviolent action in South Sudan

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Viktor Strangert; [2021]
    Keywords : Nonviolent Action; South Sudan; Vinthagen; reflexivity; abduction.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Nonviolent action is a historically pervasive, yet misunderstood phenomenon. Despite its success stories, of which Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. remain the most famous examples, nonviolent action has been overlooked in literature, especially by peace and conflict scholars. READ MORE