lecture 12 - Non violent conflict

Question 1

What is non violent political action

Answer 1

A subsect of contentious politics: to challenge the status quo through co-ordinated
mass action that takes place outside official
channels of participation

Question 2

How do you enact nonviolent political action

Answer 2

Conflictual/ disruptive. Mass demonstrations, economic and political non-cooperation, strikes

Question 3

what two categories can politics be split into

Answer 3

elite directed activities and elite directing/ challenging

Question 4

define elite directed

Answer 4

encompass voting,
being a member of a political party, standing for
office

Question 5

define elite directing/ challenging

Answer 5

includes
taking part in political discussions, participating
in new social movements, protesting,
demonstrating, boycotting, signing a petition,
occupying a space, striking unofficially,

Question 6

are non violent campaigns affective?

Answer 6

recent studies show that nonviolent campaigns are more effective ion achieving the aims than violent or terrorist movements.

Question 7

why are nonviolent actions affective?

Answer 7

enhances legitimacy and encourages participation to the resistance, Regime violence against nonviolent movements is
more likely to backfire against the regime

Question 8

What are the two main ways to ‘do’ nonviolent political protests

Answer 8

Principled -> based on moral principles and an ethical code which disallows the participation of violence, (often religious)
Strategic/ pragmatic -> does not rely on a fundamental commitment to nonviolent which extends to all situations, it may be limited only to the situation at hand

Question 9

what example of nonviolent protest is given in the lecture?

Answer 9

East Timor Independence Movement 1988-1999.

Question 10

Strategic Nonviolent resistence

Answer 10

Goal is to seize control of the conflict through
widespread non-cooperation and defiance, does not always appear “peaceful” or “pacifist”, Can be very disruptive: different from principled
nonviolence

Question 11

Define Civil Disobedience

Answer 11

“Refusal to obey governmental demands or
commands especially as a nonviolent and usually
collective means of forcing concessions from the
government”

Question 12

integrity-based civil disobedience

Answer 12

when a citizen disobeys a law she or he feels is immoral, (slave laws)

Question 13

Define Justice based civil disobedience

Answer 13

when a citizen disobeys laws to lay claim to some right denied to her or him, (rosa parks)

Question 14

define Policy based civil disobedience

Answer 14

civil disobedience occurs when a
person breaks the law to change a policy they
believe is dangerously wrong