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Author Ram, Senthil
Title Nonviolence : An Alternative for Defeating Global Terror(ism)
Imprint New York : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2007
©2008
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Note Intro -- NONVIOLENCE: AN ALTERNATIVE FORDEFEATING GLOBAL TERROR(ISM) -- NOTICE TO THE READER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- AN IMPORTANT BOOK FROM IPRA -- FOREWORD -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- NONVIOLENT COUNTER TO GLOBAL TERROR(ISM)AND PARADIGMS OF COUNTER-TERRORISM -- PARADIGMS OF COUNTER-TERRORISM -- MILITARY MODEL -- CRIMINAL MODEL -- PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT MODEL -- REFERENCES -- THE ORIGINS OF VIOLENCE: NEW IDEAS AND NEWEXPLANATIONS AFFECTING TERRORISM -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FREUD AND THE HUMAN MALAISE -- 3. FREUD'S IDEAS LIVE ON IN OTHER DISCIPLINES -- 4. THE SEVILLE STATEMENT IS NOT ENOUGH -- 5. THE ORIGINS OF NONVIOLENCE -- 6. THE TRANSITION FROM NONVIOLENCE TO VIOLENCE -- 7. THE ROLE OF RELIGION -- 8. ANTITHETIC CULTURAL MESSAGES -- 9. SECULAR NONVIOLENCE -- 10. THE METAPHOR OF MEDICINE -- 11. ABOUT SOLDIERS -- 12. ABOUT TERRORISTS -- 13. CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART II: NONVIOLENCE AND TERRORISM -- SEARCHING FOR AN EXIT IN THECORRIDOR OF FEAR: REVISITING GANDHIAND KING IN TIMES OF TERROR[ISM] -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PROBLEM WITH VIOLENT ANTI-TERRORISTACTIONS OF HEROES -- THE CAUSAL CHAIN -- WHAT DOES GANDHI HAVE TO OFFER? -- THE CORRIDOR OF FEAR -- TRANSFORMING THE PRESENT TO CREATE A NEW FUTURE -INSIGHTS FROM GANDHI AND KING -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE MAHATMA AND THE MUJIHADEEN:GANDHI'S ANSWER TO TERRORISM -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- SEPARATING PERSON FROM DEED -- ACKNOWLEDGING THE COUNTER-PRODUCTIVITYOF ALL TERRORISM -- ANTIDOTE TO TERRORISM -- FAILURE TO UNDERSTAND VIOLENCE -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- TERRORISM AS A BACKFIRE PROCESS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- TERRORISM AND OUTRAGE -- WHY TERRORISM BY THE WEAK? -- STATE TERRORISM -- NONVIOLENT ACTION AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO TERRORISM -- NONVIOLENCE AGAINST TERRORISM
CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- UNDERSTANDING THE INDIRECT STRATEGY OFTERRORISM: INSIGHTS FROM NONVIOLENTACTION RESEARCH -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM AS A STRATEGY -- THE INDIRECT STRATEGY OF TERRORISM -- DYNAMICS OF TERRORISM -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART III: NONVIOLENT ISLAM ANDISLAMIC TERRORISM -- UNDERSTANDING ISLAMIC TERRORISM:HUMILIATION AWARENESS AND THE ROLEFOR NONVIOLENCE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. USAMA BIN LADEN'S MESSAGE TO THEMUSLIM WORLD AND THE WEST -- 2. INSURGENCY OR TERRORISM? -- 3. NONVIOLENCE AND COUNTER-INSURGENCY:AN IMPOSSIBLE MATCH? -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- TERRORISM, GENDER AND NONVIOLENT ISLAM:THE CASE OF ERITREA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- A. GENDER, NONVIOLENCE AND ISLAM -- B. THE CASE OF ERITREA: THE ERITREAN LIBERATION FRONT -- C. THE CASE OF ERITREA: THE ERITREANPEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT -- D. THE REALITIES OF WOMEN IN/AT WAR -- E. 'FREE ERITREA' AND THE AFTERMATH FOR WOMEN -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE JAHILIYYA FACTOR?: FIGHTING MUSLIMS'CULTURAL RESISTANCE TO NONVIOLENCE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ABSENT PRECEPT AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST JAHILIYYA -- THE JAHILIYYA FACTOR: INADEQUATE LANGUAGE, CONCEPTUALMISUNDERSTANDING AND HISTORICAL ABSENCE -- LINGUISTIC INCOMPATIBILITY? -- CONCEPTUAL MISUNDERSTANDING? -- ISLAMIC HISTORY AND CULTURE OF NONVIOLENCE? -- CONCLUSION: REDEFINING JAHILIYYA -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART IV: NONVIOLENT ROLE OF EDUCATION,AESTHETICS AND UN POLICE -- A NONVIOLENT RESPONSE TO TERRORISM:WHAT CAN PEACE EDUCATION DO? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- TACKLING TERROR AT ITS ROOTS: UNDERSTANDING CAUSES OF THECULTURE OF WAR AND VIOLENCE -- UNDERSTANDING AND EXPOSING ENEMYIMAGE CONSTRUCTION -- PEACE EDUCATION: TRANSFORMING HUMAN HEARTS
CONCLUSION: TOWARDS A PEDAGOGY OF ENGAGEMENT AND ACULTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ART AGAINST TERROR: NONVIOLENTALTERNATIVES THROUGH EMOTIONAL INSIGHT1 -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 9/11: FROM A BREACH OF SECURITY TOA BREACH OF UNDERSTANDING -- QUESTIONING REPRESENTATION -- PUBLIC DEBATES ABOUT THE AESTHETICRECONSTRUCTION OF GROUND ZERO -- POLITICS BETWEEN TEXT AND MUSIC -- MUSIC AND EMOTIONAL KNOWLEDGE -- THE CHALLENGE TO APPRECIATE ARTISTICKNOWLEDGE ON ITS OWN TERMS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE ROLE OF UN POLICE IN NONVIOLENTLYCOUNTERING TERRORISM -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- IN PURSUIT OF A NONVIOLENT FUTURE -- UN PEACEKEEPING AND THE QUEST FOR AGLOBAL NONVIOLENT POLICE SERVICE -- BEYOND TRADITIONAL MILITARY ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS -- CASE STUDIES IN UN PEACEKEEPING -- THE LEGACY AND PROMISE OF A NONVIOLENTGLOBAL CIVILIAN POLICE SERVICE -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART V: NONVIOLENT RESPONSES TO TERRORISM -- NONVIOLENT RESPONSE TO TERRORISM:ACTING LOCALLY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- APPLYING NONVIOLENCE TO A SIEGE OF TERROR -- CONCLUSION: LESSONS LEARNED -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- DISSOLVING TERRORISM AT ITS ROOTS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- REDUCING TERRORISTS' SOURCES OF POWER -- ADDRESS OPPRESSIVE CONDITIONS THAT TERRORISTS EXPLOIT -- MODEL: A REALISTIC ALTERNATIVE FORM OF STRUGGLE -- DEVELOP A NEW DISCOURSE ABOUT NONVIOLENT POWER -- IMPLEMENTATION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- TERRORISM: VIOLENT ANDNONVIOLENT RESPONSES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE REAL THREAT TO LIBERAL DEMOCRACY -- DEFINING TERROR(ISM) -- BACKGROUND OF TERRORISM AND COPING IN THE MODERN ERA -- COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT TERRORISM -- ENGENDERING PATHOLOGIES OF FEAR AND POWER -- ANALYZING THE CORRELATES OF TERRORISM
SOME NONVIOLENT RESPONSES TO TERROR AND TERRORISM -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- DEFEATING TERRORISM NONVIOLENTLY:AN ENQUIRY INTO AN ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY1 -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- HALF WAY IS NO WAY -- ASSUMPTIONS BEHIND A NONVIOLENT STRATEGY -- OUTLINING A NONVIOLENT STRATEGY FOR MIDDLE SIZEMEMBERS OF THE 'COALITION OF THE WILLING' -- CONCLUSION -- AUTHOR -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Untitled
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Subject Terrorism -- Prevention -- International cooperation.;Nonviolence.;Passive resistance
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