April Carter

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Carter, April, Direct Action and Democracy Today

Examines a range of justifications for nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience in liberal parliamentary states, and shows the shifts in debate both within protest movements and in response to them. Also discusses unarmed resistance to corporate exploitation and neoliberal economic policies in a global context.

, Democratic Theory Today: Challenges for the 21st Century

ed. Carter, April; Stokes, Geoffrey,

Carter, April, People Power and Political Change: Key Issues and Concepts

Focuses on unarmed national movements of resistance to imperial, dictatorial or semi-authoritarian rule in relation to the theories and experience of guerrilla warfare, revolution, concepts of power and links between people power and electoral processes. The discussion, which draws on a range of literatures (including theories of nonviolent action, political thought and democratization) is then set in a global context.

Carter, April, Peace Movements: International Protest and World Politics Since 1945

Particular focus on European and North American movements against nuclear weapons in the 1950s-60s and 1980s and East European responses in the 1980s. But other nuclear disarmament protests, peace campaigns on other issues and nonviolent initiatives in other parts of the world are indicated more briefly.

Carter, April; Roberts, Adam; Hoggett, David, Nonviolent Action: A Selected Bibliography

Carter, April, The Sahara Protest Team

In A. Paul Hare, Herbert H. Blumberg, Liberation without Violence: A Third Party Approach (A. 5. Nonviolent Intervention and Accompaniment)

On a transnational expedition in 1959-60 attempting to prevent French nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara.

, A Guide to Civil Resistance

ed. Carter, April; Clark, Howard; Randle, Michael, 1

Carter, April; Randle, Michael, Support Czechoslovakia

Account of four transnational teams going to Warsaw Pact capitals to protest against the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion.