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June 7, 2011, Newsletter #3 on Nonviolence
OMNI NEWSLETTER #3 ON NONVIOLENCE, June 7, 2011, Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace Contents of #1 Gene Sharp Civil Resistance Success (2 essays) Zunes on Tunisia and Egypt OMNI UA Endowment Books Organizing Jesus Palestinian Film Contents of #2 Nonviolence Convergence in Arkansas Fellowship of Reconciliation Waging Nonviolence Blog PJSA Nonviolence Blog Nonviolence International Nonviolence Mentors Nonviolence Summer Program Peace Glossary Peace Journals Journal of Aggression… Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research Books Boulding and Ikeda Kurlansky Contents of #3 Dalai Lama on Nonviolence Nonviolence History: A Force More Powerful Civilian Defense Nonviolent Communication Anger Positive ? Video from Metta Institute Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance Resources/Bibliography (see Newsletters #1 and #2) DALAI LAMA IN FAYETTEVILLE ON NONVIOLENCE A momentous event for Arkansas—filling UA’s largest basketball arena with people wanting to know about nonviolence! Stop by TIBETSPACE for a video in which His Holiness address nonviolence in a secular world. It makes a nice warm-up for his trip to Fayetteville on May 11. Sidney https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&shva=1#inbox/12f211630ca4b321 [Sidney] The historic visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the University of Arkansas was recorded and is available on video and text transcript for anyone who could not attend or wishes to re-visit the panel discussion and lecture. www.dalailama.uark.edu The panel discussion Turning Swords into Ploughshares: The Many Paths of Nonviolence featured the Dalai Lama, Sister Helen Prejean and Vincent Harding, and the Dalai Lama also presented the afternoon keynote address Nonviolence in the New Century: The Way Forward . -
Nonviolent Strugglestruggle
NonviolentNonviolent StruggleStruggle News from The Albert Einstein Institution vol. 7, no. 1 Fall 2000 A Force More Powerful to Air September 18 and 25 New Documentary on Nonviolent Struggle ○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○ Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent A Conflict, a new two- part documentary, will premier INTHISISSUE on PBS stations on Mondays, NewDocumentary September 18 and 25 at 9:00 P.M. ET (check local listings). ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ DalaiLamaWrites The riveting three-hour Forewordto ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ documentary—narrated by NewEinsteinInstitution Academy Award winning actor BookinTibetan Ben Kingsley—explores how, during a century of extreme NewEthnicLanguage PamphletsinBurma violence, millions around the world chose to battle the forces EinsteinFellowClark's of oppression and brutality with NewBookon nonviolent weapons—and won. CivilResistancein A co-production for PBS by Kosovo York Zimmerman Inc. and WETA of Washington, DC, A SharpReceivesLifetime AchievementAward Force More Powerful is written and produced by award- SouthAfricaProgram winning filmmaker Steve York. BooksPublished Einstein Institution Board member Peter Ackerman is the NewReporton series editor and its principal Activities content advisor. Jack DuVall is the executive producer for the documentary, Miriam Zim- merman its managing producer, Dalton Delan its executive in charge of production. member Peter Ackerman and ○○○○○○○○○○○○○ archival film research by the Acclaimed filmmaker -
•Œpeople Power╊ and the Problem of Sovereignty in International
5. WILSON FOR PUBLICATION(DO NOT DELETE) 7/15/2016 7:15 PM “PEOPLE POWER” AND THE PROBLEM OF SOVEREIGNTY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW ELIZABETH A. WILSON* TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 551 I. NONVIOLENT CIVIL RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS: AN OVERVIEW ..... 554 II. THE KING’S TWO BODIES (OF LAW) ....................................................... 562 A. Internal and External Sovereignty ........................................................ 562 B. Nonintervention and Effective Control ................................................ 565 III. PROPOSALS FOR RECONCEPTUALIZING EXTERNAL SOVEREIGNTY: PATERNALISTIC, NOT POPULAR ......................... 570 A. Right to Democracy ............................................................................. 571 B. The Responsibility to Protect ............................................................... 574 C. The Outcomes of Paternalistic Interventions ........................................ 577 IV. THEORIZING PEOPLE POWER .................................................................. 581 A. Front-End People Power ...................................................................... 581 B. Back-End People Power ....................................................................... 583 V. TOWARDS DEVELOPING A LEGAL REGIME FOR SITUATIONS INVOLVING NONVIOLENT CONFLICT ............................................. 587 CONCLUSION .................................................................................................... -
Dilemmas in Promoting Nonviolence G 429
Dilemmas in Promoting Nonviolence G 429 Dilemmas in Promoting Nonviolence Brian Martin ABSTRACT Promoting the use of nonviolent action raises a number of seldom-discussed tensions and dilemmas, including the possibility that nonviolence can be used for the wrong cause, the potential for nonviolent action to support violence and vice versa, and the role of advocates for nonviolent action. It is useful to think of nonviolent action as a tool that can be used for different purposes but is, by its nature, easier to use for liberation than oppression. MOST PROPONENTS OF NONVIOLENCE assume it is inherently a good thing: it is an alternative to violence to achieve worthwhile goals. Hence, promoting the use of nonviolent action seems unproblematical. In recent years, these assumptions have been challenged in strident attacks on some proponents of nonviolent action, including Gene Sharp, Peter Ackerman, and Jack DuVall. They are accused of supporting the imperialist goals of the US government through their promotion of nonviolent struggle. These attacks provide an opportunity to reflect on some seldom-raised issues concerning the use and promotion of nonviolence. My aim here is to address questions concerning the use and promotion of nonviolent action. In the next section, I address the issue of whether nonviolent action can be used for the wrong cause. Then I look at the circumstances in which nonviolent action is an inappropriate method, and what this implies. Following this, I examine the intersections of violence and nonviolence, in particular the dilemmas involved when nonviolent action is used in ways that appear October–December 2009 430 G GANDHI MARG to invoke, provoke or support violence. -
The New Transnational Activism
P1: JZZ 0521851300pre CUNY042B/Tarrow 0 521 85130 0 June 2, 2005 10:58 This page intentionally left blank ii P1: JZZ 0521851300pre CUNY042B/Tarrow 0 521 85130 0 June 2, 2005 10:58 The New Transnational Activism The New Transnational Activism is a broad-ranging study that follows the paths of transnational activists through a variety of processes between the local and the global. From labor organizers to immigrant activists, from environmentalists to human rights campaigners, from global justice protesters to Islamist militants, it shows how ordinary people gain new perspectives, experiment with new forms of action, and sometimes emerge with new identities through their contacts across borders. The book asks how and to what extent transnational activism changes domestic actors, their forms of claims making, and their prevailing strategies. Does it simply project the conflicts and alignments familiar from domestic politics onto a broader stage, or does it create a new political arena in which domestic and international contentions fuse? And, if the latter, how will this development affect internationalization and the traditional division between domestic and international politics? Sidney Tarrow is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. Tarrow’s first book was Peasant Communism in Southern Italy (1967). In the 1980s, after a brief foray into comparative local politics, he returned to social movements with a collaborative volume with B. Klandermans and H. Kriesi, Between Structure and Action (1988); then to a reconstruction of the Italian protest cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Democracy and Disorder (1989). His most recent books are Power in Movement (Cambridge, 1994, 1998); with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention (Cambridge, 2001); with Doug Imig, Contentious Europeans (2001); and with Donatella della Porta, Transnational Protest and Global Activism (2005).