Security Without Weapons : rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection /
Wallace, M. S.
Security Without Weapons : rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection / M.S. Wallace. - First Published 2017. First Issued in paperback 2021. - New York: Routledge; Taylor & Francis, 2021. - xi, 261 pages ; 24 cm. - Interventions .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Challenging the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate violence in a world of contested and contingent moral frameworks -- Challenging assumptions about the necessity and efficacy of violence for defense, protection, and victory -- The conviction and provisionality of nonviolent action : coercion and transformation in nonviolent struggle, nonviolent intervention, and nonviolent defense -- Confronting wrongs, creating wrongs : official discourses and the legitimation of violence in Sri Lanka -- Making sense of violence : media accounts and combatants' understandings -- Assessing violent and nonviolent alternatives for confronting the violence of Sri Lanka's civil war : toward a psycho-discursive theory of civilian protection and violence prevention -- Security without weapons : rethinking protection through the work of Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka.
9781032097657 (paperback)
2016024139
Humanitarian intervention.
War--Protection of civilians.
Violence--Prevention.
Nonviolence.
Humanitarian intervention--Sri Lanka.
War--Protection of civilians--Sri Lanka.
Violence--Prevention.--Sri Lanka
Nonviolence--Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka--History--Civil War, 1983-2009.
JZ6369 / .W352 2021
327.1/1
Security Without Weapons : rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection / M.S. Wallace. - First Published 2017. First Issued in paperback 2021. - New York: Routledge; Taylor & Francis, 2021. - xi, 261 pages ; 24 cm. - Interventions .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Challenging the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate violence in a world of contested and contingent moral frameworks -- Challenging assumptions about the necessity and efficacy of violence for defense, protection, and victory -- The conviction and provisionality of nonviolent action : coercion and transformation in nonviolent struggle, nonviolent intervention, and nonviolent defense -- Confronting wrongs, creating wrongs : official discourses and the legitimation of violence in Sri Lanka -- Making sense of violence : media accounts and combatants' understandings -- Assessing violent and nonviolent alternatives for confronting the violence of Sri Lanka's civil war : toward a psycho-discursive theory of civilian protection and violence prevention -- Security without weapons : rethinking protection through the work of Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka.
9781032097657 (paperback)
2016024139
Humanitarian intervention.
War--Protection of civilians.
Violence--Prevention.
Nonviolence.
Humanitarian intervention--Sri Lanka.
War--Protection of civilians--Sri Lanka.
Violence--Prevention.--Sri Lanka
Nonviolence--Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka--History--Civil War, 1983-2009.
JZ6369 / .W352 2021
327.1/1