Search Results - "nonviolence"
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CENPRIS USM TO HOLD PUBLIC FORUM ON NONVIOLENT ALTERNATIVES IN DEALING WITH EXTREMISM
Published 2016“…USM, PENANG, 8 September 2016 – The Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Centre for Policy Research and International Studies (CENPRIS) will be organising a public forum on the topic of “Violent Extremism: Islam and Nonviolent Policy Alternatives” on 21 September, 2016 at the Equatorial Hotel in Bukit Jambul, Penang.…”
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EXPERTS FROM 16 COUNTRIES TO DISCUSS ON NONVIOLENT ALTERNATIVES IN DEALING WITH EXTREMISM
Published 2016“…PENANG, 19 September 2016 – Experts coming from 16 countries would gather here for three days beginning today to discuss on the topic of ‘Violent Extremism: Islam and Nonviolent Policy Alternatives.…”
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Toward a geography of black internationalism: Bayard Rustin, nonviolence and the promise of Africa
Published 2016“…By blending these forms of internationalism Rustin was able to promote a particular model of civil rights which was characteristically internationalist in outlook, nonviolent in principle and institutional in composition; a model which in selective and uneven ways continues to shape our understanding of the period.…”
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Failed peace in South Sudan? Exploring unarmed civilians and local peacekeepers through the work of nonviolent peaceforce
Published 2022“…To address these deficiencies, this article examined methods of the unarmed civilian peacekeeping as local peace formation and infrastructure involving the non-use of weapons for civilian protection as practiced by the Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP). Adopting ethnographic strands of Critical Peace Studies and utilisation of participant observations in humanitarian accounts with the NP between 2015 and 2019, our in-depth qualitative fieldwork indicates a potentially effective approach to unarmed civilian protection in the country. …”
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Waging peace: militarising pacifism in Central Africa and the problem of geography, 1962
Published 2017“…Second, the histories of waging peace (peace armies, civil disobedience, etc.) allow us to critically interrogate the co-constitutive geographies of violence and nonviolence while retaining peace as a distinct category around which to promote political engagement.…”
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Bangladesh: civil resistance in the struggle for independence, 1948-1971
Published 2013“…By taking a longer, historical view of Bengalis' struggle for independence, this chapter focuses on the Bangla language movement and the nonviolent civil resistance of March 1971. Both movements were directed against a government' which repeatedly used violent means of repression against unarmed people.However, the resort to violence failed to strangulate the movements,often backfired,and ultimately proved counter productive in the face of massive nonviolent mobilization. …”
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The Arab spring, good governance and citizens' right
Published 2014“…Accordingly, through discussing the rights and responsibilities of the citizens before their rulers and of the rulers before their people, the paper recommends adoption of the approach of nonviolent and evolutionary changes to improve political and social ills. …”
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Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ... [et al.]
Published 2009“…Many countries in Asia, including Malaysia, impose the death penalty for nonviolent crimes, including drug related crimes. Capital punishment is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent. …”
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Ahmad Dahlan and the moderate, humanist, and non-sectarian Islam
Published 2023“…Based on a moderate understanding extracted from the Quran, hadith, and some scholars’ understanding, Dahlan is more suitable to be categorised as a moderate-humanist or middle Salafism figure rather than being categorised as a puritan-fundamentalist or right-wing Salafism figure as misunderstood by some, because of his thoughts and movements in the Islamic education, religious, social, economic, and political fields are more moderate, nonviolent, open, and visionary humanists than contemporary reformers in the country, so that their thoughts and movements inspire philanthropic actions in the Islamic education, social, economic, and politic fields that are far from radicalism and terrorism, and contrary to the modernist group’s thoughts and movements that exist today, especially with puritan fundamentalist groups.…”
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Coping with stalking among university students
Published 2010“…Victims of violent stalking threatened the stalker with the use of certain legal actions signifi cantly more compared with victims of nonviolent stalking, but no difference in the actual use of formal help was found. …”
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Risk Factors for Severe Violence in Intimate Partner Stalking Situations: An Analysis of Police Records
Published 2019“…The present study aims to identify correlates of nonviolent, moderate, and severe physical violence within an archival sample of 369 domestically violent police incident reports, where stalking behavior was indicated. …”
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Themes in peace psychology research
Published 2015“…Finally, we conclude the chapter by noting that from a global perspective, sustainable peace requires the continuous crafting of socially just ends through nonviolent means.…”
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Reframing Israel-Palestine: critical Israeli responses to the Palestinian call for Just Peace
Published 2014“…The activist narratives and practices examined testify to the way in which critical Israeli engagement with nonviolent ethical responsibility towards the Palestinian people can result in unprecedented narrative convergence, practical solidarity, and the possibility for non-domination and cohabitation. …”
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Peace psychology
Published 2013“…Sustainable peace requires continuing efforts to craft facilitative synergies between nonviolent means and social just ends, that is, the pursuit of negative and positive peace.…”
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