Response to Corinna Jentzsch’s Review of <i>Between Mao and Gandhi: The Social Roots of Civil Resistance</i>

Thurber, Ches

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“…That said, one relevant condition relates to the demographic characteristics of a movement compared with the overall county population. If a movement constituency represents an ethnic, religious, or racial minority in the country, nonviolent resistance may seem as risky as, and perhaps more futile than, violent resistance (Thurber 2021). Moreover, movements whose constituency is territorially concentrated-such as many secessionist movements-are more likely to turn from nonviolent to violent resistance in any given year (Cunningham et al 2020).…”

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The Role of Violence in Nonviolent Resistance

Chenoweth

2023

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

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Over the past two decades, there has been growing scholarly interest in nonviolent resistance—a method of conflict in which unarmed people mobilize collective protests, strikes, and boycotts in a coordinated way. Mass movements that rely overwhelmingly on nonviolent resistance sometimes feature unarmed collective violence, fringe violence, or even organized armed action. What do we know about the effects of violent flanks on movement outcomes? This article reviews findings on the relationships between nonviolent and unarmed resistance, violence, and the outcomes of mass mobilization, as well as the directionality of these relationships. The balance of empirical evidence suggests that organized armed violence appears to reduce the chances for otherwise nonviolent movements to succeed, whereas unarmed collective violence has more ambiguous effects. The field will benefit from greater analytical precision in comparing the units of analysis, scope, intensity, and media framing of violent flank activity.

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The Role of Violence in Nonviolent Resistance

Chenoweth

2023

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

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“…Yet, important questions remain regarding public attitudes toward postwar programmes and actors that are assumed to underpin ongoing mobilization. Existing scholarship on NR has focused more clearly on the role of ethnic or racial identity (Davenport et al, 2011;Thurber, 2021;Manekin & Mitts, 2022) or partisan identity (Hsiao & Radnitz, 2021) in explaining attitudes toward NR movements. However, fewer studies have explored the impact of partisan identity on the public's interpretation of specific nonviolent tactics.…”

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Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents

Chenoweth

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2023

Journal of Peace Research

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In the past decade, myriad studies have explored the effects of nonviolent resistance (NR) on outcomes including revolutionary success (short-term and long-term) and democratization, and how nonviolent mobilization can play a similar role to violence in affecting social change in some settings. This special issue seeks to advance our understanding of the role of nonviolence by tackling some key assumptions in existing work that are complicated by historical and contemporary realities of deepening polarization worldwide. This issue addresses four key areas within conflict and peace research that limit our ability to make sense of NR: (a) the fragmented nature of civil resistance campaigns in terms of supporters and demands; (b) the increasing prevalence of authoritarian or anti-egalitarian nonviolent campaigns; and (c) the complicated nature of revolutionary success. Cutting across all three of these substantive areas is another key area, which is: (d) the United States as an increasingly salient site of conflict and contention.

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Response to Corinna Jentzsch’s Review of Between Mao and Gandhi: The Social Roots of Civil Resistance

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The Role of Violence in Nonviolent Resistance

The Role of Violence in Nonviolent Resistance

Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents

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