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      Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation
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      Transitions from armed to nonviolent struggle

      Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation

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      Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation book

      Transitions from armed to nonviolent struggle
      Edited ByVéronique Dudouet
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 18 August 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315778877
      Pages 262
      eBook ISBN 9781315778877
      Subjects Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Dudouet, V. (Ed.). (2014). Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation: Transitions from armed to nonviolent struggle (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315778877

      ABSTRACT

      This book investigates the decision-making process, rationale and determining factors which underlie the strategic shifts of armed movements from violent to nonviolent resistance.

      The revival of global interest in the phenomenon of nonviolent struggle since the 2011 Arab Spring offers a welcome opportunity to revisit the potential of unarmed resistance as an alternative pathway out of armed conflicts, in cases where neither military (or counter-insurgency) nor negotiated solutions have succeeded. This volume brings together academics from various disciplinary traditions and offers a wide range of case studies – including South Africa, Palestine and Egypt – through which to view the changes from violence to nonviolence within self-determination, revolutionary or pro-democracy struggles.

      While current historiography focuses on armed conflicts and their termination through military means or negotiated settlements, this book is a first attempt to investigate the nature and the drivers of transitions from armed strategies to unarmed methods of contentious collective action on the part of non-state conflict actors. The text concentrates in particular on the internal and relational factors which underpin the decision-making process, from a change of leadership and a pragmatic re-evaluation of the goals and means of insurgency in the light of evolving inter-party power dynamics, to the search for new local or international allies and the cross-border emulation or diffusion of new repertoires of action.

      This book will be of interest to students of security studies, peace and conflict studies, political sociology and IR in general.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|19 pages

      Introduction

      ByVÉRONIQUE DUDOUET

      chapter 2|25 pages

      Western Sahara: nonviolent resistance as a last resort

      ByJACOB MUNDY, STEPHEN ZUNES

      chapter 3|32 pages

      From the mountains and jungles to the villages and streets: transitions from violent to nonviolent resistance in West Papua

      ByJASON MACLEOD

      chapter 4|23 pages

      Evolution of armed to unarmed resistance in Palestine

      ByMAZIN QUMSIYEH

      chapter 5|26 pages

      South Africa: the townships rise up

      BySTEPHEN ZUNES

      chapter 6|28 pages

      From armed struggle to interaction with civil society: Chiapas’ Zapatista National Liberation Army

      ByGUIOMAR ROVIRA SANCHO

      chapter 7|19 pages

      Two sides of the same coin: indigenous armed struggle and indigenous nonviolent resistance in Colombia

      ByJOSÉ ARMANDO CÁRDENAS SARRIAS AND

      chapter 8|17 pages

      Egypt’s revolution and the transformation of armed Islamist movements towards unarmed activism

      ByOMAR ASHOUR

      chapter 9|12 pages

      Nepal’s Maoists: from violent revolution to nonviolent political activism

      ByMANISH THAPA

      chapter 10|26 pages

      Conclusion

      ByVÉRONIQUE DUDOUET
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