Thinking Global Podcast – Marilou Bayard Trépanier
Marilou Bayard Trépanier speaks about the Oil Kills uprising, its aims and practices, the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty, and more.
Chile and the Overcoming of Neoliberalism: Countering Authoritarianism and the Self-Regulated Market
The challenge of the Chilean left appears to be holding its institutional force and expanding its ideological apparatus.
Interview – Harini Amarasuriya
Harini Amarasuriya discusses social exclusion, stigma, discrimination and resistance in Sri Lanka and how the women’s movement and radical Christians influenced dissent.
Interview – Cécile Mouly
Cécile Mouly discusses the nature of civil resistance, mobilisation, nonviolence and peacebuilding in Latin America, ex-combatants in Colombia and mediation in Venezuela.
Review – Why Civil Resistance Works
This book revolutionizes the study of political change. The authors’ findings fundamentally challenge traditional realist assumptions about the efficacy of military force and the nature of political power.
Civil Resistance, Transformative Nonviolence and the State
The two forms of nonviolent political action; civil resistance and transformative nonviolence, have different attitudes towards the state. Civil resistance enhances state institutions whilst transformative nonviolence aims for new forms of social and political organisation.
