Sökning: "nonviolent campaigns"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 15 uppsatser innehållade orden nonviolent campaigns.
6. The Diminished Success of Nonviolent Conflicts : A quantitative analysis
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningSammanfattning : This paper investigates the decline in success of nonviolent conflicts. While nonviolent conflicts are known to have higher efficacy compared to violent conflicts, this disparity has decreased since the 1990s. LÄS MER
7. Resisting Corporations : Violent and Nonviolent Conflict in the context of Natural Resource Extraction
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningSammanfattning : Corporations in the resource extraction industry are frequently criticized and their operations opposed by local communities demanding more benefits, compensation for negative consecuences or oppose resource extraction altogether. Research has focused extensively on nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns that target state and quasi-state actors attempting regime change or self-determination. LÄS MER
8. THE REVOLUTION WILL (NOT) BE NEGOTIATED : CIVIL RESISTANCE AND NEGOTIATIONS WITH AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningSammanfattning : Scholars that study civil resistance mainly focus on factors that explain success or democratisation yet overlook what shapes an important link between the two: negotiations. This study asks why some civil resistance movements enter extensive negotiations with the regime while others do not and argues that the decision to negotiate in nonviolent campaigns is a function of a movement’s organisational capacity. LÄS MER
9. Organising Civil Resistance : Understanding the effects and dynamics of organisational structures on the outcome of civil resistance campaigns
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningSammanfattning : The use of nonviolent tactics has become the most common way to achieve change. The field of civil resistance has been predominantly focussed on the dynamics related to the outcome, however, about the types of organisational structures that are most effective, is no general consensus, yet. LÄS MER
10. Politisk jiu-jitsu, ett pris de mäktiga slipper betala? : En kvantitativ studie om maktens påverkan på konsekvenserna av statligt förtryck gentemot ickevåldskampanjer
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis presents a quantitative study that aims to investigate whether Brian Martin is right in his theory about how more powerful actors have a greater capacity to prevent outrage and anger after opressions and thus suffer less from political jiu-jitsu, a process in which oppression becomes counterproductive. This is done by looking at whether more powerful regimes getaway more easily with repressing nonviolent campaigns. LÄS MER