Originally Published in Jørgen Johansen & Charles P. Webel, Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader, Routledge 2006. Buy the book here. New Revolutionary Movements The history of nonviolence goes back hundreds if not thousands of years. Several philosophical, political, and religious…
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New Revolutionary Movements
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Nonviolence as a constructive force
Originally Published in xxx The 20th century is the most violent period in the history of mankind. More people have suffered and more people have been killed by organised violence than in any other similar epoch ever. The hundreds…
Tagged with: armed conflict, Benigo Aquino, Bolivia, Corazon Aquino, Eastern Europe, Gandhi, Iran, nonviolence, Philippines, Poland, Soviet Union, WMD
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Means and Ends in Peace Research
By Jørgen Johansen and Håkan Kellgren Originally published in xxx “Peace research concentrates on the question of violence. In particular, it has come to focus on organised violence on societal conflicts.” (Wallensten, 1988). In the literature the most…
Tagged with: Amanda Peralta, Fredsforskning, Håkan Kellgren, Peace Research, Peter Wallensteen, PRIO
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Posted in In English, Peace Research
Two weeks after September 11
By Jan Oberg, TFF director and Jorgen Johansen, TFF associate Originally published by TFF, September 25, 2001 Constructive thoughts two weeks after September 11 Can something positive come out of the terrible events in New York and Washington on September 11? Can the…
Tagged with: Jan Øberg, Richard Falk, September 11, terrorism, TFF
Posted in In English, Political comment and analysis
Posted in In English, Political comment and analysis
Conditions for Civil Resistance
Originally published in xxx History When Gandhi introduced the concept of Passive Resistance in his article on “The Benefits of Passive Resistance” on September 7 1907 he for sure did not understood how that concept would develop over the years.…
Tagged with: Charta 77, Civil Resistance, Gandhi, Georgia, Iran, Martin Luther King, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, Nonviolent revolutions, Palestine, Passive Resistance, Phillippines, Poland, revolution, Revolutions, Social Forum, World Social Forum
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Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Social Movements
Conscientious Objection: Legal Rights
Originally published in International Encyclopedia of Peace xxx Conscientious Objection (CO) is to refuse participation in a system of obligatory service when one is conscientiously opposed to the service. In most cases the objector refuses to do military service, but individuals may…
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Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Political comment and analysis
Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Political comment and analysis
Deterrent Nonviolence
Originally published in xxx The best-prepared and most successful large-scale civil disobedience action in Scandinavian history never took place. In the end the government had to resign. In 1996 the Norwegian Parliament decided to build two large power stations…
Tagged with: civil disobedience, FAG, Fellesaksjonen mot Gasskraftverk, Naturkraft, Norway
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Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Political comment and analysis
Cases on Nonviolence
Originally published in xxx Iran Iran does not have long traditions of nonviolent movement, and few had predicted what should happen in 1979. A country where the secularisation had gone far beyond what was acceptable for the Shiite clergy…
Tagged with: Bolivia, Eastern Europe, Iran, Philippines, Poland, South Africa
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Posted in In English, Nonviolence
A UN mandate does not make war on Iraq right!
December 28. 2002 By Jorgen Johansen, TFF Associate, Director of the Centre for Peace Studies at Tromsø, University, Norway, and Jan Oberg, TFF director. A UN mandate does not turn war into peace Governments, editors, commentators and even supporters of the…
Tagged with: George W. Bush, Iraq, Jan Øberg, September 11, TFF, UN
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Posted in In English, Political comment and analysis
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Humor as a political force
Originally published in xxx Humor as a political force: or how to open the eyes of ordinary people in social democratic countries One form of state violence is punishment and imprisonment of opponents of the state. This is…
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