Security without weapons : rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection / M.S. Wallace.

Author
Wallace, M. S. (Mary S.) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Description
xi, 261 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Challenging the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate violence in a world of contested and contingent moral frameworks
    • Questioning the efficacy of violence
    • Enacting conviction and provisionality through nonviolent action : difference, responsibility to the other(s), and the nonviolent coercion or transformation of the opponent
    • Confronting wrongs, creating wrongs : official discourses and the legitimation of violence
    • Making sense of violence : media accounts and combatants' understandings
    • Assessing armed and unarmed strategies : toward a psycho-discursive theory of civilian protection and violence prevention
    • Rethinking protection : nonvioent peaceforce in Sri Lanka.
    ISBN
    • 9781138944862 ((hardback))
    • 1138944866 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2016024139
    OCLC
    936350244
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