New PDF release: On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the

By Robert L. Helvey

ISBN-10: 1880813149

ISBN-13: 9781880813140

On Strategic Nonviolent clash delves into the query of the way to construct a method for nonviolent fight. overlaying various topics--such as how you can establish a movement's goals, getting ready a strategic estimate for a nonviolent fight, and operational making plans considerations--this ebook comprises insights at the similarities among army and nonviolent process. It represents an immense new contribution to this box of research. extra issues lined within the ebook contain mental operations and propaganda, contaminants which can have an effect on the potency of a nonviolent stream, and offering consultations and coaching for individuals of events and businesses.

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Included also in this chapter is an introduction to the broad categories of nonviolent actions: Protest and Persuasion, Noncooperation, and Intervention. See Appendix 2 for a listing of 198 different methods identified by Gene Sharp. Mechanisms The ideas of strategic nonviolent struggle must move from theory to practice in order to bring political and social change. Important in the transition from ideas to action is the selection by the opposition of the preferred mechanism, or process, for influencing attitudes and behaviors of the rulers.

Given his regime’s proven capacity to rig elections, he 7 Grazina Miniotaite, Nonviolent Resistance in Lithuania: A Story of Peaceful Liberation, (Boston: The Albert Einstein Institution, 2002), 30. 8 According to reports, Saddam agreed to the march on the condition that no banners or symbols be displayed. ” 30 Robert L. 9 It is important that when groups select issues for possible accommodation that the accommodation should be expressed in terms that would make the rulers “look good” to the public if it were granted.

Accommodation Sometimes, a regime will accommodate a request or demand of prodemocracy forces, not out of respect or courtesy, but because the regime may want to defuse social tension, influence attitudes of foreign governments, impress citizens of its concern for the welfare of the people, or bring an issue to closure before opponents can exploit it for their own purposes. The regime has not been coerced but rather determines that its interests are not being directly threatened nor would it be weakened by conceding to the opposition on a particular issue.

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