{"product_id":"civil-resistance-and-conflict-transformation","title":"Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates the decision-making process, rationale and determining factors which underlie the strategic shifts of armed movements from violent to nonviolent resistance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe revival of global interest in the phenomenon of nonviolent struggle since the 2011 Arab Spring offers a welcome opportunity to revisit the potential of unarmed resistance as an alternative pathway out of armed conflicts, in cases where neither military (or counter-insurgency) nor negotiated solutions have succeeded. This volume brings together academics from various disciplinary traditions and offers a wide range of case studies – including South Africa, Palestine and Egypt – through which to view the changes from violence to nonviolence within self-determination, revolutionary or pro-democracy struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile current historiography focuses on armed conflicts and their termination through military means or negotiated settlements, this book is a first attempt to investigate the nature and the drivers of transitions from armed strategies to unarmed methods of contentious collective action on the part of non-state conflict actors. The text concentrates in particular on the internal and relational factors which underpin the decision-making process, from a change of leadership and a pragmatic re-evaluation of the goals and means of insurgency in the light of evolving inter-party power dynamics, to the search for new local or international allies and the cross-border emulation or diffusion of new repertoires of action. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of interest to students of security studies, peace and conflict studies, political sociology and IR in general.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54246361727320,"sku":"9781138019423","price":198.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138019423_2498f623-0463-4ad8-8892-8147c3d67250.jpg?v=1769736627","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/civil-resistance-and-conflict-transformation","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}