1. Making or Breaking Nonviolent Discipline in Civil Resistance Movements
- Author:
- Thomas Pinckney
- Publication Date:
- 10-2016
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC)
- Abstract:
- A central question in the study and practice of civil resistance is how nonviolent movements can maintain nonviolent discipline among their members. What factors encourage and sustain nonviolent discipline, particularly in the face of violent repression? While several scholars have suggested answers to these questions to date, the answers have largely remained ad hoc and have not been systematically tested. This monograph addresses these deficits in the literature by offering a unified theory of nonviolent discipline. This theory provides a helpful tool for better understanding how nonviolent discipline is created, sustained and shaped by repression. Following the theory, the monograph presents two tests of the effects of several influences on nonviolent discipline. The first is on the impact of patterns of repression, history of civil resistance, and campaign leadership and structure on nonviolent discipline.
- Topic:
- Human Rights
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus