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Research: Study explores how nonviolence is more effective than violence

Submitted by Andrew Suderman on 24 May 2010 - 9:09am
A fascinating paper has been published by Maria J. Stephan and Erica Chenoweth (HT to Rose Marie Berger writing for Sojourners in the US) on how nonviolence seems more successful than violent strategies in challenging regimes.

A fascinating paper has been published by Maria J. Stephan and Erica Chenoweth (HT to Rose Marie Berger writing for Sojourners in the US) on how nonviolence seems more successful than violent strategies in challenging regimes.

We have long suggested that we need greater investment in, and exploration of, these kinds of strategies. Prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2002 suggested on Radio 4 and elsewhere that such possibilities were worth considering.

Opinion: Using our Imagination In Seeking Alternative Responses to Crime

Submitted by Andrew Suderman on 3 January 2010 - 10:39am
In November top cop Police Commissioner Bheki Cele spoke about taking a tough stance on criminals as reported by News 24.com. Using similar rhetoric as before, Cele was once again justifying the lethal use of force in response to the threat posed by “armed thugs.” “I will have a serious problem with police who do not use deadly force,” he said.

Written by Andrew Suderman

In November top cop Police Commissioner Bheki Cele spoke about taking a tough stance on criminals as reported by News 24.com. Using similar rhetoric as before, Cele was once again justifying the lethal use of force in response to the threat posed by “armed thugs.” “I will have a serious problem with police who do not use deadly force,” he said.

Opinion: Reconnecting Love and Nonviolence: A Response to Obama's Nobel Lecture

Submitted by Andrew Suderman on 26 December 2009 - 10:05am
In his Nobel remarks of two weeks ago, U.S. President Barack Obama called for "the continued expansion of our moral imagination" in the cause of building a lasting peace in the world. Obama's words themselves, however, exhibited no such imagination. On the contrary, they outlined again the exhausted dismissals of nonviolence as the way to pursue peace. Nowhere was this more evident than in his assessment of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., that African American Nobel laureate in whose debt Obama places himself.

Written by Joe Sawatzky

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