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Dumas, Nicolas K. (Nicolas Kasem). "Protest without repression : protest policing and nonviolent resistance in the US." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130601.
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Activists often identify violent repression, and ensuing backlash, as a key mechanism through which peaceful protests can successfully achieve political change. This view has been affirmed by a body of research showing that the violent repression of protest can raise awareness of and build support for the protesters. And US history has many examples of these repression backlash benefiting protesters, from the Birmingham bus boycotts to the "Bonus Army" March on Washington, to the Kent State shootings. However, in the United States, and in other western democracies, the probability of violent police repression of protests has varied significantly over time, as a result of a multitude of institutional factors. While the impacts of repressed protest have been documented, how peaceful protests fare in the absence of repression is less well-understood.
This dissertation explores whether the absence of repression impacts protests' ability to capture attention and persuade the public, and whether the absence of repression impacts the types of protests that are successful. To answer these two questions, I draw on a wide array of data sources, including a novel dataset of local protests coded from protest permit applications, geo-referenced Google search data, Wikipedia page-view data, New York Times coverage data, historical archives of an activist group's internal communications. I show that, while repression makes it easier for protests to garner news coverage, command public attention, and persuade the public, it is not a necessary condition. Peaceful protests can achieve these outcomes without repression if they can become newsworthy in other ways, such as by increasing the scale of the protest.
I also show that in the absence of repression, the types of protests that achieve success are similar in background to the protests that achieve success in the presence of repression. Unlike some other forms of political participation, the resources needed to succeed without repression do not appear to be skewed towards individuals or groups with higher socio-economic status. Although the probability of violent repression changes over time, protests continue to serve as an effective tactic for a relatively small group to capture attention and build broader support.
by Nicolas K. Dumas.
Ph. D.
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science
Hanna, Emelie. "Gendered Forms of Protest : Do Women's Participation Affect the Outcome of Nonviolent Campaigns?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413337.
Full textMcDuffie, Scott Patterson. "James Lawson leading architect and educator of nonviolence and nonviolent direct action protest strategies during the student sit-in movement of 1960 /." NCSU, 2007. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03212007-153100/.
Full textCaulfield, Thomas E. "Nonviolent Resistance to Security Policy in Nationalist Northern Ireland, 1970-1981." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6186.
Full textBurton, Kerry. "Re-presenting geopolitics : ethnography, social movement activism, and nonviolent geographies." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3607.
Full textOmar, Abdurahman. "The Ethiopian Muslims Protest in the Era of Social Media Activism." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-419675.
Full textВишневська, Олена Дмитрівна. "Ненасильницький протест: технології трансформації конфлікту." Master's thesis, КПІ ім. Ігоря Сікорського, 2020. https://ela.kpi.ua/handle/123456789/38315.
Full textNonviolent conflict can be considered a special kind of socio-political conflict. The legal framework of Ukraine is not ready to regulate this type of protest. Instinctively, people tend to gather in crowds and defend themselves. In the crowd a person undergoes psychological changes: reduced social responsibility, reduced cognitive components in behavior, acts infantile. Conflict should be understood as a kind of interaction between people. The transformation of the conflict is to change the reality of the conflict through its 3 dimensions: perception, context and behavior. There are internal institutions (preventive police units (dialogue police), National Mediation and Reconciliation Service) and international level organizations (UN, OSCE) and foundations (PAX, Berghoff foundation, Caritas, “Vidrodgennja” Foundation) for the transformation of conflicts. Among the methods and tools for conflict transformation, I identified 3: dialogue, facilitation and mediation. In this paper, I described the technology of transforming conflict between groups of people during nonviolent protests – urban peacebuilding. Urban peacebuilding has the following stages: intention, conflict monitoring, conflict assessment and mapping, modeling and identification of entry points, primary psychological contact, contact. The final stage of intervention in the conflict brings a person to change strategy, behavior. The urban peacebuilder carries out crisis intervention in conditions of non-violence, at the point of active "gray mass" and gives a voice to the silent majority. The urban peacebuilder has developed the following competencies: sociability, emotional intelligence, flexibility, ability to empathize and self-empathy, the ability to think structurally, understanding their own boundaries and limitations.
Ненасильственный конфликт можно считать особым видом социально-политического конфликта. Нормативно-правовая база Украины не готова регулировать данный вид протестов. Инстинктивно люди склонны собираться в толпы и защищаться. В толпе человек подвергается психологическим изменениям: снижению социальной ответственности, снижению когнитивных компонентов в поведении, действует инфантильно. Конфликт следует понимать как вид взаимодействия между людьми. Трансформация конфликта заключается в изменении реальности конфликта через 3 его измерения: восприятие, контекст и поведение. Для трансформации конфликтов существуют внутренние институты (отделы полиции превентивного воздействия (полиция диалога), Национальная служба посредничества и примирения) и международного уровня организации (ООН, ОБСЕ) и фонды (РАХ, Berghoff foundation, Caritas, фонд «Возрождение»). Среди методов и инструментв трансформации конфликтов я выделила 3: диалог, фасилитация и медиация. В работе я описала технологию трансформации конфликтов между группами людей во время ненасильственных протестов - уличная фасилитация. Уличная фасилитация имеет следующие этапы: намерение, мониторинг конфликта, оценка и картирование конфликта, моделирования и определения точек входа, первичный психологический контакт, контакт. Завершающий этап интервенции в конфликт выводит человека на смену стратегии, поведения. Уличный фасилитатор осуществляет кризисную интервенцию в условиях ненасилия, в точке активной «серой массы» и дает голос молчаливому большинству. Уличный фасилитатор имеет развитые такие компетенции: коммуникабельность, эмоциональный интеллект, гибкость, способность к эмпатии и самоемпатии, умение структурно мыслить, понимание собственных границ и ограничений.
Anisin, Alexei. "State repression, nonviolence, and protest mobilization." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/17165/.
Full textRyckman, Kirssa Cline. "Ratification as accommodation? Domestic dissent and human rights treaties." SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/620925.
Full textBrodrick-Okereke, Mabel. "Women's protests in Egi and Warri, Nigeria, 1998 -2009 : the politics of oil, nonviolent resistance, and gender in the Niger Delta." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607668.
Full textBell, Richard. "The quality of governance peace : Governance perceptions and sustaining peace." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353271.
Full textGuldbacke, Lund Linnéa. "Tystnaden: Makten, rösten och talet : En analys av tystnaden som kontrollinstrument i Vegetarianen och brun flicka drömmer." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-156220.
Full textBala, Sruti [Verfasser]. "The performativity of nonviolent protest in South Asia (1918 - 1948) / Sruti Bala." 2007. http://d-nb.info/994384734/34.
Full textHrynkow, Christopher. "Players or pawns?: student-athletes, human rights activism, nonviolent protest and cultures of peace at the 1968 summer olympics." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/22069.
Full text"Nonviolence and the 2011 Tunisian uprising : the instrumental role of the Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail (UGTT)." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2014-02-1425.
Full textLanková, Kateřina. "Sýrie a koncept responsibility to assist: nový přístup k řešení konfliktů?" Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-372903.
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