PEACE ST 1A03 (2010/11) Lecture 5: Differing approaches to peace and conflict

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Lecture 5Monday January 31 2011

PEACE ST 1A03: Introduction to Peace StudiesDr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

Differing ApproachesPeace and Conflict

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Outline

Conflict as positive

Nonviolence

Direct Action

Conflict Transformation

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Questions

Reflect on commonalities and contradictions

Means and ends

Empowerment

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Conflict is not a synonym for violence. Violence is onlyone possible response to conflict a collectiveexpression, or political tool to achieve ends.

Jake Lynch & Annabel McGoldrick (2005)

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Amazing scene: three tanks roll by with a crowd ofpeople riding atop each one. Chanting 'Hosni Mubarakout!' #Egypt

Sharif Abdel Kouddous, 29 January 2011

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as iscooperation with good.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

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Consent theory of power

...people in society may be divided into rulers andsubjects; the power of rulers derives from consent by

the subjects; non-violent action is a process ofwithdrawing consent and thus a way to challenge thekey modern problems of dictatorship, genocide, warand systems of oppression.

Brian Martin (1989) on Gene Sharp

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Citations & further reading

Martin Buber (1939) Letter to Gandhi. Text available online http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/BuberGandhi.html

Parke Burgess (2009) Auschwitz, Martin Buber, and Gandhi, Our Tragic Flaw: a case fornonviolence, http://www.ourtragicflaw.com/blog/2009/3/5/auschwitz-martin-buber-and-gandhi.html

Melanie Joy (2009) Why we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows: An introduction tocarnism. San Francisco: Conari Press.

Melanie Joy (2001) From carnivore to carnist: Liberating the language of meat,

Satya, 8(2), 26-27.

Lewis Lipsitz, & Herbert M. Kritzer (1975) 'Unconventional Approaches to ConflictResolution',Journal of Conflict Resolution, 19(4): 713-733.

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Jake Lynch & Annabel McGoldrick (2005). Peace Journalism. Gloucestershire:Hawthorn Press.

Brian Martin (2008) How nonviolence is misrepresented, Gandhi Marg, Vol. 30,No.2, pp. 235-257Kate McGuinness (1993) 'Gene Sharp's Theory of Power: A Feminist Critique of

Consent',Journal of Peace Research, 30(1): 101-115 Marc Howard Ross (1993) TheCulture of Conflict, New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Hugh Miall (2004) Conflict Transformation: a multi-dimensional task, Berghoff Research

Centre for Constructive Conflict Management. PDF available online at http://www.berghof-handbook.net/uploads/download/miall_handbook.pdf

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964) Acceptance Speech, The Nobel Peace Prize,December10.http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-acceptance.html

Alex Madrigal (2010) Egyptian Activists' Action Plan: Translated. The Atlantic, January27. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/01/egyptian-activists-action-plan-translated/70388/

Martin Oppenheimer (1969) The Urban Guerrilla, Chicago: Quadrangle Books.

Gene Sharp (1973) The Politics of Nonviolent Action: Part One - Power and Struggle ,

Boston: Porter Sargent.

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Image sources

Peace flag, original source unknown.

Marc Riboud. Jan Rose Kasmir, protest against the Vietnam War outside the Pentagon, Arlington County,Virginia, Saturday, 21 October, 1967 http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rose_Kasmir

Elisa Iannacone. As leaders of the G20 nations gathered in Toronto, Canada, protesters took to the streets

[caption]. G20 summit protests in Toronto : Your pictures, BBC News, 27 June 2010 http:// www.bbc.co.uk/news/10427404

The U.S. vs. John Lennon reproduced from Jrgen Fauths Muckworld http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/02/14/the-us-vs-john-lennon/

Demonstrations in Egypt turn violent, while some demonstrators kiss the police,MSNBC PhotoBlog, January 28,2001 http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/28/5941833-demonstrations-in-egypt-turn-violent-while-some-demonstrators-kiss-the-police

Women of Egypt photo collection, January 2011 http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=268523&id=586357675

Seattle 1999 WTO demonstrations, Libtech Snowboards catalog, 2001

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