Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves - Couverture souple

Kaplan, Oliver

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1316612449 ISBN 13 : 9781316612446

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

In civil conflicts around the world, unarmed civilians take enormous risks to protect themselves and confront heavily armed combatants. This is not just counterintuitive - it is extraordinary. In this book, Oliver Kaplan explores cases from Colombia, with extensions to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and the Philippines, to show how and why civilians influence armed actors and limit violence. Based on fieldwork and statistical analysis, the book explains how local social organization and cohesion enable both covert and overt nonviolent strategies, including avoidance, cultures of peace, dispute resolution, deception, protest, and negotiation. These 'autonomy' strategies help civilians retain their agency and avoid becoming helpless victims by limiting the inroads of armed groups.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Oliver Kaplan is an Assistant Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He was previously a postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University, New Jersey in the Woodrow Wilson School and at Stanford University, California. His research for Resisting War received the Martin Diskin Dissertation Award honorable mention from the Latin American Studies Association.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1316612449
• ISBN 13: 9781316612446
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 396
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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