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Unarmed Resistance And Global Solidarity

By: Howard Clark (Editor)

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Paperback | 20 August 2009 | Edition Number 1

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Across the world, nonviolent movements are in the forefront of resistance against repression, imperial aggression and corporate abuse. However, it is often difficult for activists in other countries to know how best to assist such movements. The contributors to "Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity" place nonviolent struggles in an international context where solidarity can play a crucial role. Yet they also warn that good intentions are not enough, solidarity has to listen to local movements. Using clear examples, the contributors assess various forms of solidarity, criticizing those in the global North who try to impose their view of what is possible and arguing that a central role of solidarity is to strengthen the counter-power of those resisting domination and oppression.

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'These cases are excellent analyses on how to generate non violent global transformation by working and acting locally' -- Professor Kevin P Clements, Director National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand.
'Timely and stimulating' -- Professor Paul Rogers, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University
'One of the world's most knowledgeable practitioners of the technique of non-violent civil resistance is the British activist-intellectual, Howard Clark. Based on his own broad experience from several decades of assisting local or national unarmed movements, he has gathered into one bracing volume a well-organised series of essays by seasoned observers or participants from across the globe' -- Professor Mary E. King, UN-affiliated University for Peace, and prize-winning author of Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr: The Power of Nonviolent Action, A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resi
'Without shying from the difficult debates, this book gives great insight into unarmed resistance movements. Highlighting their empowerment, diversity, and creativity, it shows how these movements provide solidarity and hope for all. -- Carmen Magallon, Vice-president, Spanish Association for Peace Research

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List of photographs, figures and tables	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Resisting Repression, Civil War and Exploitation, 2000-2008: Analyses of Unarmed Struggle
Editorial introduction	p. 23
Serbia-Nonviolent struggle for democracy: The role of Otpor	p. 26
Serbia eight years after	p. 35
Burma-Dialogue with the Generals: The sound of one hand clapping	p. 39
Zimbabwe-Unarmed resistance, civil society and limits of international solidarity	p. 50
Colombia-Nonviolent movement for peace and international solidarity	p. 64
India-Macro violence and micro resistance: Development violence and unarmed grassroots resistance	p. 76
Nonviolent Citizens' Intervention across Borders
Editorial introduction	p. 89
Making accompaniment effective	p. 93
Developing strategy for accompaniment	p. 98
With Peace Brigades International in Colombia	p. 108
Civilian peacekeeping: Providing protection without sticks and carrots?	p. 112
Making peace practical: with Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka	p. 122
Cross-border nonviolent advocacy during the second Palestinian intifada: The International Solidarity Movement	p. 125
The work of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI)	p. 135
International Women's Peace Service in Palestine	p. 138
Voices in the wilderness: Campaigning against sanctions on Iraq, 1995-2005	p. 143
Bases of Solidarity: Shared Identities, Interests and Beliefs
Editorial introduction	p. 153
Women in Black: The stony path to 'solidarity'	p. 156
Transnational solidarity and war resistance: The case of Turkey	p. 164
Solidarity based on sexual orientation: Regional organising in Africa	p. 171
Diasporas: Potential partners in struggle	p. 177
Global movements and local struggles: The case of World Social Forum	p. 184
Worker solidarity and civil society cooperation: Blocking the Chinese arms shipment to Zimbabwe, April 2008	p. 191
Controversies in Transnational Action
Editorial introduction	p. 195
External financing of opposition movements	p. 198
Nonviolence training and charges of Western imperialism A guide for worried activists	p. 206
Afterword: The chain of nonviolence	p. 214
Works cited	p. 219
Notes on contributors	p. 228
Index	p. 232
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