CONSEJO MEXICANO DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES

Pacifism and Nonviolence

Even though violence is widely assumed to be effective as a «regrettable but sometimes necessary» means to achieve political objectives, there is mounting evidence that calls this assumption into question.

Having a stronger army no longer guarantees military success. Whether in managing protests, in counter-terrorism, or in peacebuilding, violent and repressive approaches tend to be counter-productive and less effective than well-designed nonviolent alternatives. Similar evidence is emerging concerning bottom-up protest and resistance: violent campaigns appear less effective than nonviolent ones, including against brutal and undemocratic regimes.

Yet the serious arguments put forward by advocates of pacifism and nonviolence remain underexamined. But this is starting to change. A growing literature is giving serious attention to pacifism and nonviolence, and 2023 will see the launch of a new journal dedicated to the topic.

This IAS Spotlight Series will explore some of the salient questions in this emerging literature with a series of hybrid seminars.

Thursday 28th April 2022 – 3:00pm

Seminar I: Memories of Violence

This seminar will bring together a group of scholars to reflect on the way violence is remembered and commemorated from the World Wars to the climate crisis.

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Friday 29th April 2022 – 11:00am

Seminar II: The Cult of Violence in Politics

This seminar will bring together a group of scholars to consider a variety of critiques of common rationalisations for violence and pacifist responses to it.

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Monday 20th June 2022 – 11:00am

Seminar III: Responding to Violence

This seminar will bring together a group of scholars to examine more closely a range of concrete examples of responses to violence, including in civilian protection initiatives, with military defectors, and in responses to ‘killer robots’ and to counterinsurgency.

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Monday 20th June 2022 – 3:00pm

Seminar IV: Militarism

This seminar will bring together a group of scholars to discuss various facets of militarism, including faith in the institutions of violence, how political philosophers overlook militarism, wargaming in the US military, and militarisation in Palestine.

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TBC September 2022

Seminar V: Nonviolent Protest and Resistance

This double seminar will bring together a group of scholars to analyse different dimensions and examples of nonviolent protest and resistance, including the idea of rebellion, nonviolence as a philosophy of life, methods of constructive resistance, protests in the US, and civil resistance in Thailand.

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Booking details for the final event will be forthcoming.

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/programmes/pacifismandnonviolence/

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