Security Without Weapons: Rethinking Violence, Nonviolent Action, and Civilian Protection

ISBN-13: 9781032097657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 274 str.

M. S. Wallace

Opis

Wallace explores ethical yet effective responses to violence, proposing nonviolent intervention (civilian peacekeeping) as a third option for protecting civilians during humanitarian crises. This book addresses a diverse range of literatures and debates, and is both philosophically innovative and practically useful for those worki

Recenzje

'In the burgeoning literature on nonviolence, Security Without Weapons stands out for its theoretical sophistication, its rich empirical analysis, and its multiple insightful contributions to discussions around violence, war, humanitarian intervention and civilian protection. Eloquent, impassioned, incisive and thoroughly convincing, M. S. Wallace clearly illustrates the value of including nonviolence and pacifism in international relations theorizing about the use of force. Most importantly, this book offers hope - the realistic and practical hope of breaking out of global cycles of violence and building more peaceful societies.' - Richard Jackson, University of Otago, New Zealand

Spis treści

Introduction

Part I: Violence and nonviolence

Chapter 1: Challenging the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate violence

Chapter 2: Questioning the efficacy of violence

Chapter 3: Enacting conviction and provisionality through nonviolent action: difference, responsibility to the other(s), and the nonviolent coercion or transformation of the opponent

Part II: Understanding violence in Sri Lanka's civil war and counterinsurgency

Chapter 4: Confronting wrongs, creating wrongs: official discourses and the legitimation of violence

Chapter 5: Making sense of violence: media accounts and combatants’ understandings

Part III: Confronting violence in Sri Lanka's civil war and counterinsurgency

Chapter 6: Assessing armed and unarmed strategies: toward a psycho-discursive theory of civilian protection and violence prevention 

Chapter 7: Rethinking protection: Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka

Conclusion

O autorze

M. S. Wallace is a visiting scholar in the Conflict Resolution program at Portland State University and previously taught at the University of New Hampshire and Brown University, USA.