SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND NONVIOLENT CONFLICTS

Catalog description

(Cross-listed with POL 60904 )(Slashed with POL 70904 ) The waging and escalating of conflicts by social movements through nonviolent actions frequently shifts conflicts from one stage to another while also contributing to conflict transformation and to substantive social and political changes. Course focuses on social movement theories and practices, and on the complicated dynamics of nonviolent action campaigns waged by social movements.