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Nonviolent Social Movements: A Geographical Perspective

ISBN: 978-1-577-18076-0

September 1999

Wiley-Blackwell

344 pages

Description
Nonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.
About the Author
Stephen Zunes is an assistant professor of politics and chair of the Peace & Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco. His articles have appeared in Middle East Policy, Current History, Arab Studies Quarterly, Third World Quarterly, New Political Science,International Journal, and other scholarly publications. He is an editor of Peace Review and writes and researches extensively in the area of social movements and peace studies.

Lester R. Kurtz is a professor of sociology and Asian studies at the University of Texas, Austin. His research focuses on the analysis of social conflict, the sociology of culture and religion, and global social theory. His other books include Gods in the Global Village: The World's Religions in Sociological Perspective (1995) and The Web of Violence: From Interpersonal to Global (co-edited with Jennifer Turpin, 1997). He is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict (1999).

Sarah Beth Asher is an independent researcher and has lived and worked in the Middle East, India, China, and Europe, where she served in the US Army Medical Corps. She has been involved in research on violence as a public health issue.

Features

  • First volume to examine the diffusion of non-violence in the 20th Century in global perspective.

  • Contains interviews with leading world figures including Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, and the Dalai Lama.

  • Wide ranging collection of essays and interviews from scholars and peace activists combing first-hand knowledge with scholarly interpretations.