ed. Shelley Anderson and Janet Larmore
Author(s): Brian Martin
War Resisters' International, London, 1991
Analysis of nonviolent action and case studies of people power in Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Central and South America and South Africa.
Author(s): Brian Martin
In: Gandhi Marg, Vol 10, No 2 (Sept), 1988, pp. 326-339
(also in Brian Martin, Nonviolent Struggle and Social Defence (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) ), Ch. 5.
Author(s): Brian Martin, and David Hess
In: Mobilization, Vol 11, No 1 (June), 2006, pp. 249-267
Author(s): Brian Martin
Irene Publishing, Sparsnäs, Sweden, 2015, pp. 354
Explores how methods of nonviolent action can be used effectively in contexts where unfamiliar: verbal abuse, online defamation, and struggles in relation to euthanasia and vaccination.
Author(s): Brian Martin
2006
Authoritarian actions often 'backfire' against those who carry them out. Effective accompaniment strategies make this more likely.
Author(s): Brian Martin
In: Journal of Peace Research, Vol 26, No 2, 1989, pp. 213-222
Examines whether a theory of power underlying nonviolent resistance should incorporate a structuralist (Marxist or feminist) interpretation, while noting the limits of structuralism for explaining active resistance.
Author(s): Brian Martin
Irene Publishing, Sparsnas Sweden, 2012, pp. 112
A guide to turning an opponent’s violence to the campaign’s advantage. For the wider theoretical analysis see: Brian Martin, Justice Ignited: The Dynamics of Backfire (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements)
Author(s): Brian Raftopoulos, and Lloyd Sachinkoye
Weaver Press, Harare, 2001, pp. 316
The first chapter by Raftopoulos is on ‘The Labour Movement and the Emergence of Opposition Politics in Zimbabwe’. Later chapters include criticism of the MDC from a socialist perspective.
Editor(s): Maxwell A. Cameron, Robert J. Lawson, and Brian W. Tomlin
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998, pp. 512
This book was published soon after December 1997, when over 120 states (excluding the USA, Russia, China, India and Pakistan) signed the Ottawa Convention to ban production, stockpiling and use of anti-personnel mines. It provides a wide ranging survey of both the global campaign and the diplomatic moves culminating in the 'Ottawa process', which, under Canadian government leadership, resulted in the treaty. There are contributions from leading campaigners, diplomats and academics.
Author(s): Brian Whitaker
University of California Press, Palo Alto CA, 2006, pp. 264
Argues Middle East moving away from sexual diversity, which is demonized by clerics and persecuted by governments – but notes ‘pockets’ of change and tolerance.
background paper published by UNIDIR
Author(s): Daniel Mack, and Brian Wood
2012, pp. 29
An informative and detailed account of how the proposal for an Arms Trade Treaty to set international standards and controls upon the sale of arms, promoted in the 1990s by NGOs (such as Oxfam and Amnesty International) and by prominent individuals, for example Nobel Peace laureates, gained governmental support. The goal was not to stop all arms exports, but the more limited one of setting international standards for controlling sale of arms to strengthen national rules and to prevent weapons from intensifying conflicts or worsening human rights abuses. The Treaty was agreed at the UN General Assembly in April 2013 by 157 states, including the US under President Obama.
See also: Campaign Against the Arms Trade, 'Issues - Arms Trade Treaty'
https://www.caat.org.uk/issues/att
CAAT notes that the Arms Trade Treaty came into force in December 2014 when ratified by 50 states (including the UK), but explains their scepticism about the concept of a 'responsible' arms trade. CAAT claims the UK approves licenses which contravene the approved guidelines. and it should stop promoting arms sales A number of other sources sceptical about the Treaty are listed.
See also: 'Canada, ‘Canada joins the Arms Trade Treaty while still selling arms to Saudi Arabia’, Oxfam, 16 May 2019
Oxfam comments that whilst Canadian eventual accession to the Treaty is a major victory for civil society, the government has not made moves to cancel its $15 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, despite the Saudi record on human rights (denounced by the Trudeau government) and the Saudi role in the war in Yemen.
See also: Pecquet, Julian, ‘UN Approval of Arms Trade Treaty sets up Obama, Senate Showdown’, The Hill, 2 April 2013
Commentary on the domestic political context of Obama’s decision to back the Arms Trade Treaty, opposed by 53 Senators and the National Rifle Association. In the light of domestic opposition the Obama Administration had delayed support for the UN treaty in the run-up to the November 2012 election. Pecquet also notes that the treaty passed with 154 votes; three countries opposed – North Korea, Syria and Iran – and 23 abstained.
Author(s): Brianna Theobald
In: Time, 2019
Investigates the history of the forced sterilization of Native American Women as a practice that reflects the history of U.S. colonialism.
See also on forced sterilization of Latino men and women: Novak, Nicole and Natalie Lira, ‘Forced sterilization targeted Americans of color, leaving lasting impact’, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 23 March 2018.
The link to the documentary ‘No Más Bebés’ (No More Babies), which tells the story of immigrant mothers who sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were pushed into sterilizations while giving birth at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the 1960s and 70s can be found here http://www.nomasbebesmovie.com/
https://time.com/5737080/native-american-sterilization-history/
Author(s): Brianne Garrett
In: Forbes, 2020
Interview with Patrisse Cullors on the growth and further development of Black Lives Matter Global Network into its two most important complementing movements: #DefundPolice and #InvestInCommunities.
See also: https://theconversation.com/black-lives-matter-is-a-revolutionary-peace-movement-85449
Author(s): Bridget Mary Robson
University of Bradford, MA Dissertation, Bradford, 1992, pp. 89
Recounts debates surrounding the use of direct action and civil disobedience in anti-nuclear campaigns, noting the influence of New Left politics and feminism and the rise of nonviolence training, affinity groups and peace camps in the 1980s. Demonstrates that direct action was initiated at the grassroots level but in time accepted by CND leadership.
Editor(s): Bron Raymond Taylor
State University of New York Press, Albany NY, 1995, pp. 422
Author(s): Karen O'Brien, Elin Selboe, and Bronwyn Hayward
In: Ecology and Society, Vol 23, No 3, 2018, pp. 1-14
The authors examine youth opposition to policies and practices that lead to climate change, noting that differing forms of climate activism have differing results. They focus on three types that oppose power relationships and political interests: ‘dutiful, disruptive, and dangerous dissent’
Author(s): Gene Sharp, and Bruce Jenkins
Albert Einstein Institution, Cambridge MA, 2003, pp. 64
Summary analysis of potential for popular nonviolent resistance to defeat coup attempts, recommendations for organised strategy and advance preparations to prevents coups, and with very brief description of resistance to Kapp Putsch in 1920, the Algerian Generals in 1961 and to attempt to overthrow Gorbachev in 1991.
http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/TAC-1.pdf
Author(s): Bruce Pannier, and Muhammad Tahir
In: RadioFreeEurope, 2018
Gives an account on the debate in Kyrgyzstan, and more generally in Central Asia, about women's rights and the role of women in contemporary Central Asian societies. Provides link to videos and podcast debating the issue.
https://www.rferl.org/a/majlis-podcast-a-new-wave-of-feminism-in-central-asia/29505120.html