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Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice And 21st Century Potential Hardcover – January 1, 2005

by Gene Sharp (Author), Joshua Paulson (Author)
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"Instructs how to strategically plan nonviolent action, a technique of waging conflict that uses protest, noncooperation and intervention. Draws parallels between nonviolent and military strategy. Documents twenty-three cases showing how nonviolent action has been applied to conflicts throughout the world in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.
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  1. Print length
    598 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Albert Einstein Inst
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 2005
  5. Dimensions
    5.75 x 1.75 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0875581617
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0875581613
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  • C. Renzi
    3.0 out of 5 stars Admirable sentiments but impractical at personal level
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2013
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    Gene Sharp has an admirable commitment to reducing violence in the world, and for this he deserves much praise and respect. His work has certainly made an impact in many political circles and in that sense it probably should be considered a "success". My personal view however is that his plan for non-violent struggle does not really bring about much more justice in human affairs. Furthermore, it does not in fact remove violence. Various examples are cited and I suppose if looking at a macro-level, they are "better" results than out and out war, but still leave one with a sense that things on the ground for the individuals involved are mostly unchanged. And ultimately, violence HAS to be about the individuals involved. Abstracted, removed from the personal and rarefied is pretty much how things are done today on CNN. The loss of life of a few hundred Afghani just does not equate to the loss of life of a dozen Westerners in say London or New York. Until people are seen as PEOPLE by everyone, everywhere down to an individual level, this situation will still remain very much one where the people watching TV news can't related to the ones being talked about on the news.
    Making those people being shown on the news appear more as people to everyone is not going to happen without a radical change in the media first, and I would suggest, probably an uncomfortable level of discomfort in the watchers second. It's hard to see a way forward and it's certainly not Gene's fault if finding a non-violent way that is EFFECTIVE is very, very, very difficult. Personally I found Lysander Spooner's essay (free on the internet) called Natural Law, to be not only much more concise (about 8 pages) but light-years closer to how reality actually is shaped and why and by whom, as well as what your personal allegiance to "the powers that be" is actually reduced to IN REALITY once you see the whole picture clearly. It may not be as "palatable" or "fashionable" as Mr. Sharp, but Spooner gives you an unvarnished view of reality as it is, before suggesting corrective alternatives, and surely, we MUST start from reality first, if we are to address it effectively.
    I think overall my lack of giving this 5 stars stems primarily from the lack of effectiveness I see in his work from a personal point of view. He gets 3 stars for effort though.
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