Author(s): Lutz Mez
Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main, 1976, pp. 376
The resistance by Norwegian teachers and other civil society groups to Quisling’s attempt to impose fascist ideology during th e German occupation is one of the most important and successful examples of resistance during World War Two.
Author(s): Lynn Kyaw
Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2021
The article starts with an analysis of the personal as well as the institutional factors leading to the 2021 coup. It then assesses the special situation in Rakhine State (previously the kingdom of Arakan), home to Muslim minorities including the Rohingya, and to Arakan Buddhists, who are hostile to both Muslims and to the Burmese (Buddhist) government.
https://www.tni.org/en/article/reflections-on-military-coups-in-myanmar
Editor(s): Lynne Jones
The Women's Press, London, 1983, pp. 162
Gives transnational examples of women's peace activism.
Author(s): Verity Burgmann, and M. Burgmann
University of New South Wales Press, Sydney NSW, 1998
On the initiation of ‘green bans’ – work bans by unions to prevent redevelopment of working class neighbourhoods and destruction of historic buildings and urban green spaces in Sydney. Between 1971 and 1974 42 separate bans were imposed and linked unionists with middle class conservationists. See also: Jack Mundey, Green Bans and Beyond, Sydney NSW, Angus and Robertson, 1981
Author(s): Sharon Grewal, M. Tahir Kilavuz, and Robert Kubinec
Brookings Foreign Policy Institution2019, pp. 41
Report on an online survey of over 9,000 Algerians, including 4,200 who identified as protesters, and 1,700 who stated they were military personnel. The survey therefore drew out how the military attitudes compare with those of the protesters. The authors found 'very high support' for Boutfileka's resignation and the protest movement, including among those not involved in the protests and among soldiers and junior officers in the military. Senior officers were much more critical of both democracy and popular revolution. But even junior officers and soldiers believed there was a role for the military to 'referee the political arena' and were opposed to investigation of military excesses during the 1990s.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/FP_20190711_algeria.pdf
Author(s): M.C. Labrador
In: Asian Survey, Vol 42, No 1 (January/February), 2002, pp. 141-149
Author(s): Shashank Bengali, and M.N. Parth
In: Los Angeles Times, 2021
This article explores the role of women in the farmers' protests in the context of 75 per cent of rural women working in agriculture. The authors note that this sector has been left behind in the boom accompanying the previous three decades of economic liberalization.
See also https://time.com/5942125/women-india-farmers-protests/ and https://thediplomat.com//2021/01/indias-invisible-women-farmers//
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-27/indias-farm-protests-driven-by-women
revised version of paper presented to Canadian African Studies Association in May 1992
Author(s): M.S. Wallace
Routledge, London, 2016, pp. 264
Exploration of discourses that legitimate violence and importance of challenging them in the practice of nonviolent intervention. The author focuses on the civil war in Sri Lanka between the Government and the Tamil Tigers, and then analyzes the peacekeeping role of the Nonviolent Peaceforce Sri Lanka in 2008.
Author(s): Sasa Dr, U Aung, and Ma Thuzar
In: Jacobin, 2021
The interviews with Dr Sasa, minister for international cooperation in the National Unity Government (NUG) representing the resistance, and with two railway workers involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement, are prefaced by a brief summary of the policy of the NUG. The article stresses the ethnic diversity of the NUG and its call for the abolition of the 2008 constitution and the 1982 citizenship law used to exclude the Rohingya.
Author(s): Macarena Aguilar, and Maggi Quadrini
In: OpenDemocracy, 2021
Provides profiles of some of the women who have taken to the streets to protest against the military coup and demand a return to democracy.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/were-unstoppable-meet-the-women-leading-myanmars-protests/
Author(s): Macarena Gagliardi
In: Univision News, 2017
An account of the origin of #NiUnaMenos in Argentina, that arose prior to #MeToo in the USA – and of the progress the country achieved in tackling femicide. Although femicide and other forms of violence against women are still high and cruel, Argentina is the most advanced country within Latin America for the protection of women’s rights. The #NiUnaMenos movement was born in 2015 after a tweet by journalist Marcela Ojeda about the murder of Chiara Páez, 14-year old and pregnant. The young woman disappeared in May in Santa Fe province, and her body was found buried under the patio of her boyfriend's home. She had been beaten to death. Marcela Ojeda’s tweet “Women, together. Why don't we scream? THEY ARE KILLING US” gave rise to the start of #NiUnaMenos.
https://www.univision.com/univision-news/latin-america/argentina-a-pioneer-in-womens-rights
Part 1 and 2
Author(s): Mohja Kahf, and Maciej Bartkowsky
In: Open Democracy, 2013
The articles discuss the 'tragedy' of nonviolent resistance being overtaken by armed resistance and the tendency of the nonviolent activism to be obscured, and outline the role of nonviolent resistance in Syria so far.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/civilresistance/syrian-resistance-tale-of-two-struggles/
(online)
Author(s): Maciej Bartkowsky
In: bpb, 2014
This study of the Maidan Revolution analyzes what Bartkowsky calls nonviolent resistance in violence-loaded situations. He argues that the major use of force and violence by the regime was not a sign of strength, but of the fundamental weakening of the regime and seemed to be a desperate attempt to avert its threatened defeat. Therefore Janukowytsch's fall was preceded by three months of mobilization and civil resistance that undermined the already weak defences of the regime.
Author(s): Maria J. Stephan, and Maciej J. Bartkowski
In: Atlantic Council, 2014
This work discusses the Euromaidan movement from a perspective of nonviolent strategy, highlighting the role of ‘backfire’ when the police attacked peaceful students’ sit-ins, nonviolent tactics used to combat covert intimidation and the importance of the army’s refusal to crush the protest. It also comments on the negative impact of the ‘radical flank’ that turned to violence.
See also: Ackerman, Peter, Maciej J. Barkowski and Jack Duvall, ‘Ukraine: A Nonviolent Victory’, OpenDemocracy (3 March 2004)
Editor(s): Maciej J. Bartkowski
Lynne Rienner, Boulder, CO, 2013, pp. 436
Ambitious volume in historical and geographical range (from 1765 to current struggles, and in every continent). Individual chapters feature in relevant sections of this bibliography.
Author(s): Maciej J. Bartkowski, and Mohja Kahf
OpenDemocracy.net, London, 2013
Part 1 of a two part series. Part 2 is available at http://www.opendemocracy.net/civilresistance/maciej-bartkowski-mohja-kahf/syrian-resistance-tale-of-two-struggles-part-2
Author(s): Madawi Al-Rasheed
In: Guardian Weekly, 2019
This article assesses women’s progress in Saudi Arabia since the lifting of the driving ban in 2018, and reports on the official decision to grant women passports to travel abroad without a male guardian’s consent. This is a step towards reversing the deprivation of women’s legal, political and human rights unique to Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi version of Islam as interpreted by conservative clerics. But women still cannot marry, or leave domestic violence shelters or prison without a male relative’s consent. Moreover, Al Rasheed notes, prominent feminist activists had been imprisoned. However, Saudi feminists are still discreetly and effectively engaging within civil society to help women.
See also ‘Women in Saudi Arabia: Changing the Guard’, Economist, 20 July 2019, p.42.
Reports official plans to lift some restrictions on women, but also notes fears that a right to travel would increase the number of women fleeing abroad and seeking asylum. The article contextualises possible reforms to free women in the conflicting politics of liberalisation and repression being practised by the Crown Prince.
Editor(s): Roger Clark, and Madeleine Sann
Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, NJ, 1996, pp. 354
Elaborates on the case the Marshall Islands, Samoa, and the Solomon Islands jointly brought before the International Court of Justice in Advisory Proceedings on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons, as part of the process leading to the 1996 ICJ Advisory Opinion on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons.
Author(s): Madlen Nikolova
In: Jacobin Magazine, 2020
This article provides an analysis of the socio-economic and political framework within which the movement of 2020 erupted, noting that both the right and the left in Bulgarian politics were accused of corruption, which indicated the 'lack of real political alternatives'. It also notes that issues such as high unemployment, low wages and failing health system are scarcely raised in parliament, even by the Bulgarian Socialist Party. Concludes by pointing to parallels with the 2013 protests.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/10/bulgaria-boyko-borissov-protests-gerb-bsp