000 02806 a2200373 4500
001 1317369912
005 20250317111636.0
008 250312042016GB 2 eng
020 _a9781317369912
037 _bTaylor & Francis
_cGBP 41.99
_fBB
040 _a01
041 _aeng
072 7 _aJPS
_2thema
072 7 _aJPA
_2thema
072 7 _aJW
_2thema
072 7 _aJPWS
_2thema
072 7 _a1D
_2bisac
072 7 _aJPS
_2bic
072 7 _aJPA
_2bic
072 7 _aJW
_2bic
072 7 _aJPWS
_2bic
072 7 _a1D
_2bisac
072 7 _aPOL000000
_2bisac
072 7 _aPOL002000
_2bisac
072 7 _aPOL010000
_2bisac
072 7 _aPOL011000
_2bisac
072 7 _a327.11
_2bisac
100 1 _aM. S. Wallace
245 1 0 _aSecurity Without Weapons
_bRethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection
250 _a1
260 _aOxford
_bRoutledge
_c20160913
300 _a264 p
520 _bFew questions of global politics are more pressing than how to respond to widespread violence against civilians. Despite the efforts of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) proponents to draw attention away from exclusively military responses, debates on humanitarian intervention and R2P’s “Third Pillar” still tend to boil down to two unsatisfying options: stand by and “do nothing” or take military action to protect civilians – essentially using violence to stop violence. Accordingly – and given disagreement and uncertainty regarding moral claims, as well as the unpredictability of military effectiveness – this book asks: how can we counter violence ethically and effectively, taking action consistent with our particular moral commitments while also nurturing difference and enacting responsibility towards multiple others? After evaluating the pragmatic and ethical failings of military action, the book proposes nonviolent intervention as a third – unarmed, on-the-ground – option for protecting civilians during humanitarian crises. In the empirical section of the book, focusing on the discursive and psychological conditions enabling violence, Wallace analyses the mechanisms by which Nonviolent Peaceforce – an international NGO engaged in nonviolent intervention/ unarmed civilian peacekeeping (UCP) – was able to protect civilians and prevent violence, even if on a limited scale, in the broader context of Sri Lanka’s war/counterinsurgency in 2008. Both philosophically innovative and practically useful to those working in the field, the book contributes to a range of literatures and debates: from just war theory and poststructuralist ethics to nonviolent action and conflict transformation, and from humanitarian intervention, R2P, and civilian protection to strategic theory and discursive and psychological theories of violence.
999 _c7139
_d7139