Source: Johansen, Jørgen. 2009. “Waves of Nonviolence and the New Revolutionary Movements.” In Seeds of New Hope, Pan-African Peace Studies for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Matt Meyer and Elavie D. Ouédraogo, 69-124. Asmara: African World Press. In recent years, we…
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Waves of Nonviolence and the New Revolutionary Movements
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Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Peace Research, Social Movements
Ikkevold som en revolusjonær kraft
Ursprungligen publicerad i Medlemsbladet for IPPNW Norge, Nr. 2 juni 2003. Ved inngangen til det 21. århundre har menneskeheten flere erfaringer med ikkevoldelige midler i store konflikter enn noensinne. Og ikkevolden ser ut til vinne frem som den mest effektive…
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Posted in Nonviolence, På norsk, Peace Research
New Revolutionary Movements
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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Posted in In English, Peace Research, Social Movements
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…
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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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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…
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Bombning av Iran är farligt för alla
Originally published in xxx Det har spekulerats i om USA kommer att bomba Iran innan president Bush avgår nästa år. Senast förra veckan publicerade The Times en läcka från Pentagon om en plan för en intensiv tre dagars bombning av…
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