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Evaluating Violence And (Non)Violence: A Critical, Practical Theology Of Social Change, Julie Marie Todd
Evaluating Violence And (Non)Violence: A Critical, Practical Theology Of Social Change, Julie Marie Todd
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This dissertation uses a practical theological approach to evaluate Christian (non)violence in light of interviews with twelve scholars and activists in the United States about the means of social change and the relationship of those means to social location. Social location conditions an understanding of what violence is and how different groups justify and respond to various uses of violence and (non)violence within society and for social change. The project sets Christian (non)violent practice within the context of direct, structural and cultural violence, and implicates Christian tradition, theology and practice in each level of violence. The qualitative data exposes the …
Palestinian Women: Mothers, Martyrs And Agents Of Political Change, Rebecca Ann Otis
Palestinian Women: Mothers, Martyrs And Agents Of Political Change, Rebecca Ann Otis
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This dissertation seeks to understand the role of women as political actors in the rise of Islamo-nationalist movement in Palestine. Using a historical and ethnographic approach, it examines the changing opportunity structures available to Palestinian women in the nationalist struggle between 1987 and 2007. It looks into the sites of political engagement of Palestinian women as mothers, organizers and political candidates, suicide bombers, and nonviolent activists with attention paid to the evolution of the Islamist ideology within these four pathways for political participation. The goal of this work is to engage the question of how some Palestinian women who appear …
Fostering Global Security: Nonviolent Resistance And Us Foreign Policy, Amentahru Wahlrab
Fostering Global Security: Nonviolent Resistance And Us Foreign Policy, Amentahru Wahlrab
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This dissertation comprehensively evaluates, for the first time, nonviolence and its relationship to International Relations (IR) theory and US foreign policy along the categories of principled, strategic, and regulative nonviolence. The current debate within nonviolence studies is between principled and strategic nonviolence as relevant categories for theorizing nonviolent resistance. Principled nonviolence, while retaining the primacy of ethics, is often not practical. Indeed, most nonviolent movements have not been principled, or solely principled. Strategic nonviolence is attractive because it does not require any individual or group to believe in a particular faith or ethical tradition. However, strategic nonviolence is problematic as …