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May 27, 2023 · Violent dissidents focus their deliberations on increasingly violent repression, whereas nonviolent dissidents focus their reasoning on less violent and nonviolent forms of repression. Ordinary citizens who do not engage in dissent think of positive state behavior and safety instead.
More than 40 years of systematic empirical research on the strategic use of political violence has revealed two regularities: (1) internal dissent incentivizes state repression; and (2) the state’s repression of dissent varies with domestic institutions (i.e., regime type).
In this article, I seek to overcome the quandaries she poses for wide-ranging definitions of violence by incorporating Arendt's critique of violence into a Foucauldian paradigm.
- Gavin Rae, Emma Ingala
This article presents a new framework that orders theory and practice – how nonviolent resistance movements can effectively respond to repression by opponents – across five dimensions: strategy, tactics, organisational structure, individual activists and advance preparation and planning.
Feb 4, 2019 · Recent research suggests that nonviolent civil resistance is far more successful in creating broad-based change than violent campaigns are, a somewhat surprising finding with a story behind it.
- Harvardgazette
Through these two chapters we canvass a wide range of ideas, always seeking what can help opponents of repression, aggression, and oppression. Note that this is not a complete survey of nonviolence theory. Nor do we attempt to give a comprehensive treatment of the work of any particular theorist.
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Contrasting with widespread applications of state violence, the findings suggest that non-violent repression might have stronger short-term dampening effects, whereas state violence applied in early protest stages could involve backfiring effects.
