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Security Without Weapons - Rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection (Paperback)
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Security Without Weapons - Rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection (Paperback)
Series: Interventions
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Few questions of global politics are more pressing than how to
respond to widespread violence against civilians. Despite the
efforts of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) proponents to draw
attention away from exclusively military responses, debates on
humanitarian intervention and R2P's "Third Pillar" still tend to
boil down to two unsatisfying options: stand by and "do nothing" or
take military action to protect civilians - essentially using
violence to stop violence. Accordingly - and given disagreement and
uncertainty regarding moral claims, as well as the unpredictability
of military effectiveness - this book asks: how can we counter
violence ethically and effectively, taking action consistent with
our particular moral commitments while also nurturing difference
and enacting responsibility towards multiple others? After
evaluating the pragmatic and ethical failings of military action,
the book proposes nonviolent intervention as a third - unarmed,
on-the-ground - option for protecting civilians during humanitarian
crises. In the empirical section of the book, focusing on the
discursive and psychological conditions enabling violence, Wallace
analyses the mechanisms by which Nonviolent Peaceforce - an
international NGO engaged in nonviolent intervention/ unarmed
civilian peacekeeping (UCP) - was able to protect civilians and
prevent violence, even if on a limited scale, in the broader
context of Sri Lanka's war/counterinsurgency in 2008. Both
philosophically innovative and practically useful to those working
in the field, the book contributes to a range of literatures and
debates: from just war theory and poststructuralist ethics to
nonviolent action and conflict transformation, and from
humanitarian intervention, R2P, and civilian protection to
strategic theory and discursive and psychological theories of
violence.
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