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Nonviolence

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Nonviolence Unbound, Brian Martin Jan 2015

Nonviolence Unbound, Brian Martin

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Rallies, strikes, boycotts, sit-ins — these and other methods of nonviolent action can be used to bring down dictators. Nonviolence Unbound shows how insights into what makes nonviolent action eff ective can be applied to four completely diff erent arenas: defending against verbal abuse, responding to online defamatory pictures, and engaging in the struggles over euthanasia and vaccination. This investigation shows how to analyse options for opposing injustice.


Whistleblowing And Nonviolence, Brian Martin Jan 1999

Whistleblowing And Nonviolence, Brian Martin

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Whistleblowing and nonviolent action have a number of similarities and connections, yet seldom have they been discussed together. There are a number of lessons for whistleblowing from nonviolence, and vice versa. These are raised through a series of points about whistleblowing: that isolated resistance is ruthlessly crushed, that preparation is essential, that formal channels seldom work, that the strategy of mobilization can be powerful, and that whistleblowers seldom bring about change.