TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wallace,M.S.
TI  - Security Without Weapons: rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection 
T2  - Interventions
SN  - 9781032097657 (paperback)
AV  - JZ6369 .W352 2021
U1  - 327.1/1 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge; Taylor & Francis
KW  - Humanitarian intervention
KW  - War
KW  - Protection of civilians
KW  - Violence
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Nonviolence
KW  - Sri Lanka
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1983-2009
N1  - 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
ER  -