| ID | 143660 |
| Title Proper | Failures of nonviolent action? |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Martin, Brian |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Thomas Richard Davies in his 2014 article ‘The Failure of Strategic Nonviolent Action in Bahrain, Egypt, Libya and Syria’ in Global Change, Peace & Security addresses an important topic.1 As he notes, there are many lessons to be learned from failures of nonviolent struggles, but far more attention is given to successes. Davies analyses the 2011 nonviolent campaigns in four countries, diagnoses four corresponding modes of failure, and argues that in each of them nonviolent action may contribute to its own failure. Specifically, he argues that in Bahrain nonviolent action made resisters vulnerable to repression, in Egypt the nonviolent campaigners' strategy of alignment with the military made subsequent military repression easier, in Libya the repression of nonviolent resisters generated international outrage, making external military intervention easier to justify, and in Syria nonviolent action contributed to splits in the military, encouraging a transition to armed struggle. |
| `In' analytical Note | Global Change Peace and Security Vol. 28, No.1; Feb 2016: p.117-122 |
| Journal Source | Global Change Peace and Security Vol: 28 No 1 |
| Key Words | Nonviolent Action |