State-led Atrocities and Nonviolent Resistance: Why Peaceful Protest Isn’t Always Safe

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2667372X-bja10081" target="_blank" >10.1163/2667372X-bja10081</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

State-led Atrocities and Nonviolent Resistance: Why Peaceful Protest Isn’t Always Safe

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Nonviolent resistance is often considered among the safest forms of protest. Yet, evidence underpinning this claim stems from inquiries on aggregated annual data on resistance campaigns, which tend to get compared to insurgencies and armed conflict. Classifications have also relied on the problematic binary of nonviolence and violence and have distorted the complexity inherent to dissent. This study draws on event-based data and statistically analyzes 169 events of severe repression (1800–2022) along with different protest strategies. Results reveal that while cases featuring armed resistance are positively correlated with repression severity and have experienced higher fatality rates, there are no significant differences in fatality rates in cases where activists adopted nonviolent, scattered violent, and unarmed violent protests. These findings challenge conventional wisdom that nonviolent resistance is safer than other strategies. Case studies of the 1972 Derry massacre and the 1989 Tbilisi massacre are drawn on to elucidate the complex nature of state responses to threats to political status quos.

Název v anglickém jazyce

State-led Atrocities and Nonviolent Resistance: Why Peaceful Protest Isn’t Always Safe

Popis výsledku anglicky

Nonviolent resistance is often considered among the safest forms of protest. Yet, evidence underpinning this claim stems from inquiries on aggregated annual data on resistance campaigns, which tend to get compared to insurgencies and armed conflict. Classifications have also relied on the problematic binary of nonviolence and violence and have distorted the complexity inherent to dissent. This study draws on event-based data and statistically analyzes 169 events of severe repression (1800–2022) along with different protest strategies. Results reveal that while cases featuring armed resistance are positively correlated with repression severity and have experienced higher fatality rates, there are no significant differences in fatality rates in cases where activists adopted nonviolent, scattered violent, and unarmed violent protests. These findings challenge conventional wisdom that nonviolent resistance is safer than other strategies. Case studies of the 1972 Derry massacre and the 1989 Tbilisi massacre are drawn on to elucidate the complex nature of state responses to threats to political status quos.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Protest

ISSN

2667-3711

e-ISSN

2667-372X

Svazek periodika

5

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

29

Strana od-do

56–83

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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