Nonviolent Social Movements A Geographical Perspective

Stephen Zunes

ISBN 10: 1577180763 / ISBN 13: 9781577180760

Published by Wiley-Blackwell 1999-10-26, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nonviolent Social Movements A Geographical Perspective
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell 1999-10-26
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1577180763
• ISBN 13: 9781577180760
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Nonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.

About the Author

Stephen Zunes is an assistant professor of politics and chair of the Peace & Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco. His articles have appeared in Middle East Policy, Current History, Arab Studies Quarterly, Third World Quarterly, New Political Science,International Journal, and other scholarly publications. He is an editor of Peace Review and writes and researches extensively in the area of social movements and peace studies.

Lester R. Kurtz is a professor of sociology at George Mason University. His research focuses on the analysis of social conflict, the sociology of culture and religion, and global social theory. His other books include Gods in the Global Village: The World's Religions in Sociological Perspective (2011) and The Web of Violence: From Interpersonal to Global (co-edited with Jennifer Turpin, 1997). He is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict (2008). He is currently working on book on The Paradox of Repression (with Lee Smithey) and a 2-volume edited work on Women, War and Violence (with Mariam M. Kurtz).

Sarah Beth Asher is an independent researcher and has lived and worked in the Middle East, India, China, and Europe, where she served in the US Army Medical Corps. She has been involved in research on violence as a public health issue.