M. S. Wallace

Security Without Weapons (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 working in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317369905
• Artikelnr.: 45971203

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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