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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This paper addresses the idea that in order to effectively address human rights violations, military intervention is necessary. It advocates the perspective that nonviolent direct action is an effective way to address human rights abuses. By analyzing the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the US during the 1960s, Leymah Gbowee in Liberia in the 1990s, and Dorothy Stang in Brazil through 2005, the article demonstrates that their actions required great courage and imagination and that nonviolent activism is effective in a variety of historical contexts and global contexts.
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