Essays about: "nonviolent tactics"

Found 4 essays containing the words nonviolent tactics.

  1. 1. We Didn’t Start the Fire… Right? - How external support affects the use of violence in political movements

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

    Author : Hugo Rousselet; [2024]
    Keywords : Nonviolent resistance; external support; civil wars; self-determination movements; foreign support; nonviolent struggle; NAVCO;

    Abstract : Abstract: What explains the use of violence in extra-institutional political campaigns? Domestic groups challenge host states using both nonviolent and violent tactics. While Gandhi’s struggle for India’s independence is perhaps the most famous example of nonviolence, many of today’s bloody civil wars also started out as nonviolent movements. READ MORE

  3. 2. THE REVOLUTION WILL (NOT) BE NEGOTIATED : CIVIL RESISTANCE AND NEGOTIATIONS WITH AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES

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

    Author : Theodora Benesch; [2022]
    Keywords : nonviolent campaign; civil resistance movement; negotiation; organisational capacity; Algeria; Sudan;

    Abstract : Scholars that study civil resistance mainly focus on factors that explain success or democratisation yet overlook what shapes an important link between the two: negotiations. This study asks why some civil resistance movements enter extensive negotiations with the regime while others do not and argues that the decision to negotiate in nonviolent campaigns is a function of a movement’s organisational capacity. READ MORE

  4. 3. Organising Civil Resistance : Understanding the effects and dynamics of organisational structures on the outcome of civil resistance campaigns

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

    Author : Lars Heuver; [2021]
    Keywords : Civil resistance; campaigns; organisational structures; nonviolent tactics; collective action;

    Abstract : The use of nonviolent tactics has become the most common way to achieve change. The field of civil resistance has been predominantly focussed on the dynamics related to the outcome, however, about the types of organisational structures that are most effective, is no general consensus, yet. READ MORE

  5. 4. The quality of governance peace : Governance perceptions and sustaining peace

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

    Author : Richard Bell; [2018]
    Keywords : Governance; Peace and Development; Nonviolence; Protest;

    Abstract : Quality of Government (QoG) peace is a concept gaining some traction alongside more known concepts such as the democratic peace, or liberal (capitalist) peace or the globalist/modernist peace. This study aims to uncover how perceptions of governance quality uncover variation in the number of violent and nonviolent collective and interpersonal events at the sub-national level in Nepal. READ MORE