Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents

Erica Chenoweth and Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham
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Erica Chenoweth: Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham: Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland and Peace Research Institute Oslo

Journal of Peace Research, 2023, vol. 60, issue 1, 3-8

Abstract: In the past decade, myriad studies have explored the effects of nonviolent resistance (NR) on outcomes including revolutionary success (short-term and long-term) and democratization, and how nonviolent mobilization can play a similar role to violence in affecting social change in some settings. This special issue seeks to advance our understanding of the role of nonviolence by tackling some key assumptions in existing work that are complicated by historical and contemporary realities of deepening polarization worldwide. This issue addresses four key areas within conflict and peace research that limit our ability to make sense of NR: (a) the fragmented nature of civil resistance campaigns in terms of supporters and demands; (b) the increasing prevalence of authoritarian or anti-egalitarian nonviolent campaigns; and (c) the complicated nature of revolutionary success. Cutting across all three of these substantive areas is another key area, which is: (d) the United States as an increasingly salient site of conflict and contention.

Keywords: nonviolence; revolution; contention; conflict processes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/00223433221145542

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