1st Edition
Security Without Weapons Rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection
Introduction
Part I: Violence and nonviolence
Chapter 1: Challenging the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate violence
Chapter 2: Questioning the efficacy of violence
Chapter 3: Enacting conviction and provisionality through nonviolent action: difference, responsibility to the other(s), and the nonviolent coercion or transformation of the opponent
Part II: Understanding violence in Sri Lanka's civil war and counterinsurgency
Chapter 4: Confronting wrongs, creating wrongs: official discourses and the legitimation of violence
Chapter 5: Making sense of violence: media accounts and combatants’ understandings
Part III: Confronting violence in Sri Lanka's civil war and counterinsurgency
Chapter 6: Assessing armed and unarmed strategies: toward a psycho-discursive theory of civilian protection and violence prevention
Chapter 7: Rethinking protection: Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka
Conclusion
Biography
M. S. Wallace is a visiting scholar in the Conflict Resolution program at Portland State University and previously taught at the University of New Hampshire and Brown University, USA.
'In the burgeoning literature on nonviolence, Security Without Weapons stands out for its theoretical sophistication, its rich empirical analysis, and its multiple insightful contributions to discussions around violence, war, humanitarian intervention and civilian protection. Eloquent, impassioned, incisive and thoroughly convincing, M. S. Wallace clearly illustrates the value of including nonviolence and pacifism in international relations theorizing about the use of force. Most importantly, this book offers hope - the realistic and practical hope of breaking out of global cycles of violence and building more peaceful societies.' - Richard Jackson, University of Otago, New Zealand
