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Lipton, Judith; Barash, David, Strength Through Peace, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019 , pp. 261

A study of Costa Rica, which explores the relation between its demilitarized status and its safety, independence, and social wellbeing.
Stephan, Rita; Charrad, Mounira, Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring, New York , New York University Press, 2020 , pp. 432 (pb)

This comparative study of 16 countries documents women's political resistance during and since 2011, with essays by both activists and scholars.  The book stresses the diversity of the social groups and attitudes of the women involved, and gives a voice to often marginalized groups such as housewives and rural women. After an introductory chapter 'Advancing Women's Rights in the Arab World', the book is divided into five parts: What They Fight For; What They Believe; How They Express Agency; How They Use Space to Mobilize; and How They Organize.
Epstein, Barbara, Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s, Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1991 , pp. 327

Covers environmental/peace/feminist protest in the USA, analysing key ideas and organising methods, as well as evolution of some major campaigns, for example against the Seabrook nuclear energy plant and the Livermore nuclear weapons laboratory.
Stalley, Phillip; Yang, Dongning, An Emerging Environmental Movement in China?, 186 2006 , pp. 333-356

Nathan, Laurie, Force of Arms, Force of Conscience: A Study of Militarisation, the Military and the Anti-Apartheid War Resisters’ Movement in South Africa, 1970-1988, Bradford, University of Bradford, 1990

Reid, Ben, The Philippine democratic uprising and the contradictions of neoliberalism: EDSA II, 22 5 2001 , pp. 777-793

Analysis of Estrada regime and the protests that led to his overthrow and replacement by Aroyo. The article is also a critique of western commentators who deplore the popular uprising, and an attack on a neoliberal conception of democracy. The author concludes that the 2001 rebellion was ultimately an elite controlled process, transferring power to a different faction of the elite, but also a model of popular mobilization and empowerment.
, Repression, Exile and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture, ed. Sosnowski, Saul; Popkin, Louise, Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1993 , pp. 272

Alexander, Peter; Sinwell, Luke; Lekgowa, Thapelo; Mmope, Botsang; Xezwi, Bongani, Marikana: A View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer, Johannesburg, Jacana Media, 2013 , pp. 144

Interviews with strikers who took part in protests and written from their viewpoint.
Weyler, Rex, Blood of the Land: The Government and Corporate War Against the American Indian Movement, 1982 New York, Random House/Vintage, 1984 , pp. 304

Walker, Charles, Culebra: Nonviolent action and the US Navy, In A. Paul Hare, Herbert H. Blumberg, Liberation without Violence: A Third Party Approach (A. 5. Nonviolent Intervention and Accompaniment) London, Rex Collings, 1977 , pp. 178-195

Resistance to the use of Puerto Rican island as a US Navy bombing and gunnery range. Recounts direct action by Puerto Ricans and development of transnational action, involving US Quakers, to build chapel on the island.
Nancy, Gregory, The Gay and Lesbian Movement in the United States, In Bill Moyer, JoAnn McAllister, Mary Lou Finley, Steven Soifer, Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements (K.1. Planning and Development of Campaigns) Gabriola Island, New Society Publishers, 2001 , pp. 152-164

Analyses the US LGBT movement from 1945-2000 using the model of the Movement Action Plan developed by Moyer.
Aguirre, Xavier; Ajangiz, Rafael; Ibarra, Pedro; de Rozas, Rafael, La insumisión, un singular ciclo histórico de desobediencia civil, Madrid, Technos, 1998 , pp. 171

Primarily an account of the movement of conscientious objection and ‘insumision’ in Spain, but including analysis and proposals. It was written by university teachers who joined the movement and assisted from inside. Published in the final stage of the movement, when the end of conscription was announced. but there were still objectors jailed in military prisons.
Cunningham, Maura, Good girls revolt: the future of feminism in China, 33 4 2016 , pp. 18-22

It considers past, present and future prospects of female activism in China and how it is thriving despite the current political leadership in the country, predominantly patriarchal and directed at maintaining social stability, thus suppressing all forms of activism.
Sharkey, Noel, Killer Robots, , , pp. 16-18

Sharkey, Professor of AI and robotics at Sheffield University, Chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control  and also spokesperson for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, sketches in the historical background to the evolution of Autonomous Weapons Systems, and dispels 'five myths about AWS'. He also briefly explains the evolution of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and how it had been keeping the issue 'on the table' at the UN since 2014.

See also: Chan, Melissa, 'Death to the Killer Robots', Guardian Weekly, 19 April 2019, pp. 30-31.

Report on role of Jody Williams and Mary Wareham, two leading activists in the Campaign to Ban Landmines, in promoting the new movement, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, which they recognize to be a much harder goal to achieve. Chan notes that Israel is already using advanced autonomous technology, for example to patrol the Gaza border. the US is testing advances in the technology, and Russia wants to create a battalion of killer robots. The campaigners were in Berlin because the German government had indicated concern about the issue, but had not been consistent, so their aim was to put pressure on Germany to act. 
, Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin, ed. Carbado, Devon; Weise, Donald, San Francisco, Cleis Press, 2003 , pp. 354

Rustin was an influential adviser to MLK and the coordinator of the 1963 March on Washington. These writings on civil rights and gay politics from 1942 to 1986 include his important 1964 essay ‘From Protest to Politics’ arguing for a policy shift towards mainstream politics through voter registration and involvement with trade unions. Rustin’s later attempts to achieve his goals through the Democratic Party made him a contentious figure in some radical circles.
Garton Ash, Timothy, We the People: The Revolution of 89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague, London, Granta Books in association con Penguin, 1990 , pp. 156

(Published in New York by Random House as The Magic Lantern).
Kuzio, Taras, From Kuchma to Yushchenko, 38 2 (June) 2005 , pp. 229-244

, Dynamics of Conflict and Displacement in Papua, Indonesia, ed. Hedman, Eva-Lotta, Working Paper No. 42 Oxford, Refugee Studies Paper, 2007 , pp. 75

Bitar, Sergio, Chile, Experiment in Democracy, Philadelphia PA, Philadelphia Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1986 , pp. 243

By former member of Allende’s cabinet.
Alexander, Christopher, Tunisia: Stability and Reform in the Modern Maghreb, New York, Routledge, 2010 , pp. 160

Relevant for background to the events of 2011.
Romano, Sarah, From Protest to Proposal: The Contentious Politics of the Nicaraguan Anti-Water Privatization Social Movement, 31 4 2012 , pp. 499-514

, Defence and Dissent in Contemporary France, ed. Howorth, Jolyon; Chilton, Patricia, London, Croom Helm, 1984 , pp. 264

Part 1 covers France’s defence policy since 1945 – including the wars in Indo-China and Algeria, and De Gaulle’s decision (supported by the major political parties) to develop a French nuclear bomb. Part 2 focuses on anti-nuclear critiques and movements in the 1980s, including a military critique of French defence policy by Admiral Sanguinetti and Claude Bourdet on the ‘The rebirth of the peace movement’.
Marsh, Rosalind, Polish feminism in an east-west context, 1 2009 , pp. 26-48

Howys, Sian, Breaking the law to make change, In John Bierley, Gathering Visions, Gathering Strength, Bradford and London, GVGS Publishing Group and Peace News, 1998 , pp. 39 , pp. 13-15

Collectif, , La lutte non-violente en 50 points, approche stratégique de la tactique quotidienne, Belgrade, Centre for Applied Non Violent Action and Strategies, 2006 , pp. 185

This document was developed by the leaders of the Otpor movement, which inspired civil resistance against Milosevic in Serbia in the 1990s.  It examines a strategic approach to nonviolent struggle presented in four thematic sections: definition and analysis of the framework of nonviolent struggle; elaboration and planning of the struggle; the techniques of nonviolent combat; and measures to resist repression.

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