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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813349003321

Autore

Pearlman Wendy

Titolo

Violence, nonviolence, and the Palestinian national movement / / Wendy Pearlman [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-22763-1

1-139-12492-7

1-283-34205-7

1-139-12345-9

9786613342058

1-139-12836-1

1-139-11334-8

1-139-11553-7

1-139-11770-X

1-139-01323-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

956.9504

Soggetti

Arab-Israeli conflict

Nationalism - Palestine - History

Violence - Palestine - History

Nationalism

Nonviolence

Palestine History Autonomy and independence movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Organizational mediation theory of protest -- National struggle under the British Mandate, 1918-1948 -- Roots and rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization, 1949-1987 -- Occupation and the first Intifada, 1967-1993 -- Oslo peace process, 1993-2000 -- Second Intifada, 2000 -- Comparisons : South Africa and Northern Ireland.

Sommario/riassunto

Why do some national movements use violent protest and others nonviolent protest? Wendy Pearlman shows that much of the answer



lies inside movements themselves. Nonviolent protest requires coordination and restraint, which only a cohesive movement can provide. When, by contrast, a movement is fragmented, factional competition generates new incentives for violence and authority structures are too weak to constrain escalation. Pearlman reveals these patterns across one hundred years in the Palestinian national movement, with comparisons to South Africa and Northern Ireland. To those who ask why there is no Palestinian Gandhi, Pearlman demonstrates that nonviolence is not simply a matter of leadership. Nor is violence attributable only to religion, emotions or stark instrumentality. Instead, a movement's organizational structure mediates the strategies that it employs. By taking readers on a journey from civil disobedience to suicide bombings, this book offers fresh insight into the dynamics of conflict and mobilization.