People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity

Contents......Page 6
List of photographs, figures and tables......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction by Howard Clark......Page 16
Section I: Resisting Repression, Civil War and Exploitation, 2000–2008: Analyses of Unarmed Struggle......Page 36
Editorial introduction......Page 38
1. Serbia - Nonviolent struggle for democracy: The role of Otpor by Danijela Nenadic and Nedad Belcevic......Page 41
1a. Serbia eight years after by Ivana Franovic......Page 50
2. Burma - Dialogue with the Generals: The sound of one hand clapping by Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan......Page 54
3. Zimbabwe - Unarmed resistance, civil society and limits of international solidarity by Janet Cherry......Page 65
4. Columbia - Nonviolent movement for peace and international solidarity by Mauricio Garcia-Duran......Page 79
5. India - Macro violence and micro resistance: Development violence and unarmed grassroots resistance by Moses (Anand) Mazgaonkar......Page 91
Section II: Nonviolent Citizens' Intervention Across Borders......Page 102
Editorial introduction......Page 104
6. Making accompaniment effective by Brian Martin......Page 108
7. Developing strategy for accompaniment by Luis Enrique Eguren......Page 113
7a. With Peace Brigades International in Columbia by Louise Winstanley......Page 123
8. Civilian peacekeeping: Providing protection without sticks and carrots? by Christine Schweitzer......Page 127
8a. Making peace practical: With Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka by Rita Webb......Page 137
9. Cross-border nonviolent advocacy during the second Palestinian intifada: The International Solidarity Movement by Veronique Dudouet......Page 140
9a. The work of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) by Ann Wright......Page 150
9b. International Women's Peace Service in Palestine by Angie Zelter......Page 153
10. Voices in the wilderness: Campaigning against sanctions on Iraq, 1995-2005 by Kathy Kelly and Milan Rai......Page 158
Section III: Bases of Solidarity: Shared Identities, Interests and Beliefs......Page 166
Editorial Introduction......Page 168
11. Women in Black: The Stony path to 'solidarity' by Cynthia Cockburn......Page 171
12. Transnational solidarity and war resistance: The case of Turkey by Andreas Speck......Page 179
13. Solidarity based on sexual orientation: Regional organising in Africa by Chesterfield Samba......Page 186
14. Diasporas: Potential partners in struggle by Andrew Rigby......Page 192
15. Global movements and local struggles: The case of World Social Forum by Stellan Vinthagen......Page 199
16. Worker solidarity and civil society cooperation: Blocking the Chinese arms shipment to Zimbabwe, April 2008 by April Carter and Janet Cherry......Page 206
Section IV: Controversies in Transnational Action......Page 208
Editorial introduction......Page 210
17. External financing of opposition movements by Jargen Johansen......Page 213
18. Nonviolence training and charges of Western imperialism: a guide for worried activists by George Lakey......Page 221
Afterword: The chain of nonviolence by Howard Clark......Page 229
Works cited......Page 234
Notes on contributors......Page 243
Index......Page 247