Synopses & Reviews
Across the world, nonviolent movements are in the forefront of resistance against repression, imperial aggression and corporate abuse. However, it is often difficult for activists in other countries to know how best to assist such movements. The contributors to Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity place nonviolent struggles in an international context where solidarity can play a crucial role. Yet they also warn that good intentions are not enough, solidarity has to listen to local movements. Using clear examples, the contributors assess various forms of solidarity, criticizing those in the global North who try to impose their view of what is possible and arguing that a central role of solidarity is to strengthen the counter-power of those resisting domination and oppression.
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Urgent discussion of international solidarity activists' role in supporting nonviolent movements across the globe.
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Lively account of how people power has shaped British history -- from Peterloo to the Poll tax and beyond.
About the Author
Howard Clark is an English nonviolent activist and independent peace researcher who now lives in Madrid. He has worked for Peace News and War Resisters' International, and since 2008 has been chair of War Resisters' International. A research fellow of the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, he has been responsible for the Centre's project on Unarmed Resistance: the Transnational Factor. He is author of Civil Resistance in Kosovo (Pluto, 2000) and co-author with April Carter and Michael Randle of People and Power Protest Since 1945: A Bibliography of Nonviolent Action (2006) which is updated online at www.civilresistance.info/bibliography/update.
Table of Contents
Foreword Introduction, by Howard Clark Section I: Resisting Repression, Civil War and Exploitation 2000-2008: Analyses of Unarmed Struggle 1. Serbia - Nonviolent struggle for democracy: the role of Otpor by Danijela Nenadic and Nenad Belcevic 1a. Serbia Eight Years After by Ivan Franovic 2. Burma - Dialogue with the Generals: the sound of one hand clapping by Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan 3. Zimbabwe - Unarmed resistance, civil society and the limits of international solidarity by Janet Cherry 4. Nonviolent Movement for Peace in Colombia and International Solidarity by Mauricio García Duran 5. India - MacroViolence and MicroResistance: Development Violence and Unarmed Grassroots Resistance by Anand Mazgaonkar Section II: Nonviolent Citizens' Intervention Across Borders 6. Making Accompaniment Effective by Brian Martin 7. Developing Strategy for Accompaniment by Luis Enrique Eguren 7a. With Peace Brigades International in Colombia by Louise Winstanley 8. Civilian Peacekeeping: Providing Protection without sticks and carrots by Christine Schweitzer 8a. Making Peace Practical with Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka by Rita Webb 9. Cross-border Nonviolent Advocacy during the second Palestinian intifada: the International Solidarity Movement by Véronique Dudouet 9a. The work of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) by Ann Wright 9b. International Women's Peace Service in Palestine by Angie Zelter 10. Voices in the Wilderness: Campaigning against Sanctions on Iraq 1995-2005 by Kathy Kelly and Milan Raid Section III: Bases of Solidarity: Shared Identities, Interests and Beliefs 11. Feminist solidarity: Women in Black against War by Cynthia Cockburn 12. Transnational solidarity and war resistance: the case of Turkey by Andreas Speck 13. Solidarity based on Sexual Orientation: Regional Organising in Africa by Chesterfield Samba 14. Diasporas: potential partners in struggle by Andrew Rigby 15. Global Movements and Local Struggles: The Case of World Social Forum by Stellan Vinthagen 16. Worker Solidarity and Civil Society cooperation: blocking the Chinese arms shipment to Zimbabwe, April 2008 Section IV: Controversies in transnational action 17. External Financing of Opposition Movements by Jorgen Johansen 18. Nonviolence Training and Charges of Western Imperialism: a Guide for Worried Activists by George Lakey Afterword: the Chain of Nonviolence Howard Clark Works Cited Index