Exiting Violence

Author : Debora Tonelli,Gerard Michael J. Mannion
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110796827

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Exiting Violence by Debora Tonelli,Gerard Michael J. Mannion Pdf

In the 20th and 21st centuries, where violence has scarred countless lives, the interplay between religion, politics, and conflict remains a complex web. Exiting Violence looks to untangle some of these knots, showing not only how faith can ignite bloodshed, but also how it can inspire peace and build bridges. Resulting from an international collaboration between the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, RESET-Dialogues Among Civilizations, and the Berkley Center for Religion Peace and World Affairs, this collection assesses the state of scholarship and explores the differing ways in which religion can contribute to societies and communities exiting situations of violence and hatred. From Biblical hermeneutics to Buddhism, from secularism to legal systems, Exiting Violence offers a nuanced and thought-provoking exploration of the multifaceted role religion plays in the human struggle for peace and justice.

Author : Mitja Sardoč
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000579758

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Making Sense of Radicalization and Violent Extremism by Mitja Sardoč Pdf

This volume brings together interviews with leading scholars to discuss some of the most important issues associated with radicalization, violent extremism and terrorism. The overall aim of these interviews is to move beyond the ‘conventional wisdom’ over radicalization and violent extremism best represented by many of its well-known slogans, metaphors, aphorisms alongside various other thought-terminating clichés. A vast range of topics are tackled in these conversations, including issues as diverse as the genealogy of radicalization and violent extremism, the rhetoric of emergency politics (’the language of fear’), the ethics of securitization, mutual radicalization, the challenges arising out of the relationship between cognitive and behavioural radicalization, Islamism bias in research on radicalization, the ethics of espionage (as an integral element of the ‘war on terror’), the epistemic dimension of radicalization, the application of the just war conceptual framework to terrorism, and the ethics of exceptional means when addressing security-related issues, to name a few. The unifying assumption of the interviews in the volume is the complex nature of radicalization, violent extremism and conflicting diversity, as well as their interwoven relationship. While radicalization has become one of the ‘great buzzwords’ of the intelligence and security ‘industry’, pleas for its very abandonment as a useful analytical category have also started to emerge. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism studies, radicalisation, violent extremism, security studies and International Relations, in general.

Author : Carlos A. Cuevas,Callie Marie Rennison
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781118303153

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The Wiley Handbook on the Psychology of Violence by Carlos A. Cuevas,Callie Marie Rennison Pdf

The Wiley Handbook on the Psychology of Violence features a collection of original readings, from an international cast of experts, that explore all major issues relating to the psychology of violence and aggressive behaviors. Features original contributions from an interdisciplinary cast of scholars - leading experts in their fields of study Includes the latest violence research – and its implications for practice and policy Offers coverage of current issues relating to violence such as online violence and cybercriminal behavior Covers additional topics such as juvenile violence, sexual violence, family violence, and various violence issues relating to underserved and/or understudied populations

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Home Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family violence
ISBN : 0215520874

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Domestic Violence, Forced Marriage and 'honour'-Based Violence by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Home Affairs Committee Pdf

Author : Shashi Jayakumar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350253858

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Perspectives on Countering Extremism by Shashi Jayakumar Pdf

The study of violent extremism has seen a great deal of academic and practitioner focus on the processes of radicalization, and strategies to counter and de-radicalize extremists. Comparatively, little has been written on the subject of Diversion – early, upstream interventions aimed at deflecting individuals from a pathway of radicalization. This volume addresses this gap in scholarship by analyzing the strategies being deployed worldwide, aimed at diverting or deflecting individuals, and communities, from the path of radicalization. Disengagement – which is often necessary when one has already progressed past the 'at-risk' stage – is also addressed, given that social workers, counselors and other practitioners do not necessarily find the distinction between the two a critical issue in practice. What matters is which upstream approaches work, and what shows promise, amongst individuals and communities. Case studies range across the Global North and South, presented by both academics and practitioners. Contributions address approaches that have proven useful, strategies which should be given deeper scrutiny before being employed – and what should be avoided.

Author : Yasushi Watanabe
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786437747

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Handbook of Cultural Security by Yasushi Watanabe Pdf

This Handbook aims to heighten our awareness of the unique and delicate interplay between ‘Culture’ and ‘Society’ in the age of globalization. With particular emphasis on the role of culture in the field of “non-traditional” security, and seeking to define what ‘being secure’ means in different contexts, this Handbook explores the emerging concept of cultural security, providing a platform for future debates in both academic and policy fields.

Author : Debora Tonelli,Gerard Michael J. Mannion
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110796896

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Exiting Violence by Debora Tonelli,Gerard Michael J. Mannion Pdf

In the 20th and 21st centuries, where violence has scarred countless lives, the interplay between religion, politics, and conflict remains a complex web. Exiting Violence looks to untangle some of these knots, showing not only how faith can ignite bloodshed, but also how it can inspire peace and build bridges. Resulting from an international collaboration between the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, RESET-Dialogues Among Civilizations, and the Berkley Center for Religion Peace and World Affairs, this collection assesses the state of scholarship and explores the differing ways in which religion can contribute to societies and communities exiting situations of violence and hatred. From Biblical hermeneutics to Buddhism, from secularism to legal systems, Exiting Violence offers a nuanced and thought-provoking exploration of the multifaceted role religion plays in the human struggle for peace and justice.

Author : Joachim Krause,Charles King Mallory IV
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783866497481

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International State Building and Reconstruction Efforts by Joachim Krause,Charles King Mallory IV Pdf

State Building Post-conflict related efforts by the international community towards state (re)building and reconstruction of society and economy have become a more or less regular feature of international affairs since the early 1990s. It seems that the demand for such international efforts is rather rising than diminishing. All have in common that the establishment of sound state structures and liveable economies in a given state are considered by a sizeable and powerful group of states as something that is furthering international peace and stability. The purpose of this book is to address the strategic and policy dimensions of these international state building and reconstruction efforts. The chapters take up issues relating to the economic, security-related and institutional aspects. The authors strike a balance and attempt to formulate recommendations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004518452

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The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement by Anonim Pdf

Are artistic engagements evolving, or attracting more attention? The range of artistic protest actions shows how the globalisation of art is also the globalisation of art politics. Here, based on multi-site field research, we follow artists from the MENA countries, Latin America, and Africa along their committed transnational trajectories, whether these are voluntary or the result of exile. With this global and decentred approach, the different repertoires of engagement appear, in all their dimensions, including professional ones. In the face of political disillusionment, these aesthetic interventions take on new meanings, as artivists seek alternative modes of social transformation and production of shared values. Contributors are: Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Sébastien Boulay, Sarah Dornhof, Simon Dubois, Shyam Iskander, Sabrina Melenotte, Franck Mermier, Rayane Al Rammal, Kirsten Scheid, Pinar Selek, and Marion Slitine. The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement: Beyond the Arab Uprisings is now available in paperback for individual customers.

Author : Timothy William Waters
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Boundaries
ISBN : 9780300235890

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Boxing Pandora by Timothy William Waters Pdf

A timely and provocative challenge to the foundations of our global order: why should national borders be unchangeable? The inviolability of national borders is an unquestioned pillar of the post-World War II international order. Fixed borders are supposed to encourage stability, promote pluralism, and discourage nationalism and intolerance. But do they? What if fixed borders create more problems than they solve, and what if permitting people to change borders would create more stability and produce more just societies? Legal scholar Timothy Waters examines this possibility, showing how we arrived at a system of rigidly bordered states and how the real danger to peace is not the desire of people to form new states but the capacity of existing states to resist that desire, even with violence. He proposes a practical, democratically legitimate alternative: a right of secession. With crises ongoing in the United Kingdom, Spain, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, India, and many other regions, this reassessment of the foundations of our global order is more relevant than ever.

Author : Jérôme Ferret,Farhad Khosrokhavar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000516685

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Family and Jihadism by Jérôme Ferret,Farhad Khosrokhavar Pdf

This volume explores the paramount importance of family to jihadism in France, Spain and in Europe more generally. In France, special focus is given to the Mohammed Merah paradigmatic case study in the Toulouse region. In Spain, attention is given to the North and to Catalonia. With attention to both the concrete family - often in crisis - and the imaginary family invented by radicalized youth to substitute, this book shows the fundamental need among many jihadists to reconstitute the family, whether in the form of a clan or the imagined Caliphate (or neo-Ummah): a form of shared existence that offers escape from societies in which jihadists feel ill-at-ease. Demonstrating the failure of an emphasis on the individual actor to capture the meaning of jihadism, Family and Jihadism reveals the fundamental importance to our understanding of jihadist activity of the family (in an extended anthropological sense) - real or imagined - into which the individual is inserted. A study of the crisis of family and the re-creation of a new, enlarged family in the lives of young jihadists, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, politics and security studies with interests in radicalisation, political violence, social movements and religious violence.

Author : Catherine O'Rourke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135983697

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Gender Politics in Transitional Justice by Catherine O'Rourke Pdf

What role do transitional justice processes play in determining the gender outcomes of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism? What is the impact of transitional justice processes on the human rights of women in states emerging from political violence? Gender Politics in Transitional Justice argues that human rights outcomes for women are determined in the space between international law and local gender politics. The book draws on feminist political science to reveal the key gender dynamics that shape the strategies of local women’s movements in their engagement with transitional justice, and the ultimate success of those strategies, termed ‘the local fit’. Also drawing on feminist doctrinal scholarship in international law, ‘the international frame’ examines the role of international law in defining harms against women in transitional justice and in determining the ‘from’ and ‘to’ of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism. This book locates evolving state practice in gender and transitional justice over the past two decades within the context of the enhanced protection of women’s human rights under international law. Relying on original empirical and legal research in Chile, Northern Ireland and Colombia, the book speaks more broadly to the study of gender politics and international law in transitional justice.

Author : Laurent Bonnefoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190050290

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Yemen and the World by Laurent Bonnefoy Pdf

Winner of the Académie Française's Prix Eugène Colas Contemporary Yemen has an image problem. It has long fascinated travelers and artists, and to many embodies both Arab and Muslim authenticity; it stands at important geostrategic and commercial crossroads. Yet, strangely, global perceptions of Yemen are of an entity that is somehow both marginal and passive, yet also dangerous and problematic. The Saudi offensive launched in 2015 has made Yemen a victim of regional power struggles, while the global 'war on terror' has labelled it a threat to international security. This perception has had disastrous effects without generating real interest in the country or its people. On the contrary, Yemen's complex political dynamics have been largely ignored by international observers--resulting in problematic, if not counterproductive, international policies. Yemen and the World offers a corrective to these misconceptions and omissions, putting aside the nature of the world's interest in Yemen to focus on Yemen's role on the global stage. Laurent Bonnefoy uses six areas of modern international exchange--globalization, diplomacy, trade, migration, culture and militant Islamism--to restore Yemen to its place at the heart of contemporary affairs. To understand Yemen, he argues, is to understand the Middle East as a whole.

Author : Gabriel Blouin-Genest,Marie-Christine Doran,Sylvie Paquerot
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319917702

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Human Rights as Battlefields by Gabriel Blouin-Genest,Marie-Christine Doran,Sylvie Paquerot Pdf

This book examines human rights as political battlefields, spaces that are undergoing constant changes in which political conflicts are expressed by a translation process within networks of interactions. This translation, in turn, contributes to modifying the scope and understanding of human rights. Ultimately, these battlefields express the legitimacy encounter of different versions of human rights in contemporary political practices. The volume thus challenges both the tendency to minimize the changing nature of human rights as well as the struggles emerging from the use of human rights discourses as a legitimization tool. By shifting the focus on what stakeholders do instead of solely on the origin, nature or foundations of human rights, the authors reveal that human rights are not static objects: they are constantly transformed and, as such, affect the horizon of universal rights.

Author : Cathy Davis
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781861344892

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Housing Associations - Rehousing Women Leaving Domestic Violence by Cathy Davis Pdf

This study critically examines the role of housing associations in responding to the needs of women who have become homeless due to domestic violence.