People Power:Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity

People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity
Edited by Howard Clark
Released October 4th 2009
PB / £ 17.99 / 9780745329017 / 230mm x 150mm / 256pp

‘Timely and stimulating... [This Book] will be of great interest not just to students, activists and researchers but to the more general readers seeking alternatives to the violence that permeates so much of the world.’
Professor Paul Rogers, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University

‘I heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in advancing human solidarity and non-violent resistance to injustice and oppression. Each case shows how ordinary people can generate extraordinary change.
Professor Kevin P Clements, Director National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand.

Across the world, nonviolent movements are at the forefront of resistance against repression, imperial aggression and corporate abuse. However, it is often difficult for activists in other countries to know how best to assist such movements.

The contributors to People Power place nonviolent struggles in an international context where solidarity can play a crucial role. Yet they also warn that good intentions are not enough, solidarity has to listen to local movements.
Examining movements from Zimbabwe to Burma and Palestine, the contributors assess various forms of solidarity, arguing that a central role of solidarity is to strengthen the counter-power of those resisting domination and oppression.

Howard Clark is a nonviolent activist and independent peace researcher living in Madrid. He has worked for Peace News and since 2008 has been chair of War Resisters’ International. He is a research fellow of the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University and author of Civil Resistance in Kosovo (Pluto, 2000) and co-author with April Carter and Michael Randle of People and Power Protest Since 1945: A Bibliography of Nonviolent Action (2006)

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