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Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence
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Publishing rigorous research on #pacifism & #nonviolence with Brill, edited by @alexchristoy.bsky.social, Ned Dobos & MS Wallace. SI/forum proposals welcome.
📰Azniv Tadevosyan examines rise of #grotesque aesthetics in nonconformist #Russian popular #music of the late 2010s as a channel for aesthetic #dissensus drawing on #Rancière’s theorisation of politics: doi.org/10.1163/2772...
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
📰Adam North reflects on the place of #threats as a nonviolent means of redistributing power (via Sorel, syndicalism & Fanon):
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October 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
📰Caroline Kennedy-Pipe argues that, over time & in light of the evolution major international conflicts, Nicholas #Rengger developed an increasingly pacifist sensibility:
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October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📅Today, international day of #nonviolence, why not check out our pages: brill.com/view/journal...? You'll find work on economics, Islam, historiography, unarmed civilian protection, Gandhi, King, BLM, sabotage, AWS, gender, structural & police violence, etc. Follow us for more!
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📢JPN 3:2 now out. SI on #Economics of Politics & Nonviolence guest edited by Christopher Coyne. Includes articles on practical #pacifism, #nonviolent action, polycentric #peace, female property rights, & 1849 Paris Peace Congress. brill.com/view/journal...
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
📰 @jasonleebyas.bsky.social brings economic insights to @chenoweth.bsky.social & @mariajstephan.bsky.social to argue violent resistance common despite nonV more effective due to costliness of participation in violence, which makes its preparation a signal 4 mvmt’s seriousness doi.org/10.1163/2772...
September 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
📰Andrew Fitz-Gibbon examines ethical foundations of #violence & #nonviolence through lens of Pragmatic Ethical Principlism & grounded in cross-cultural ethical traditions, arguing nonviolence is ethically superior by systematically applying 7 core ethical principles
September 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
📰Joshua Ammons explores implications of violent v nonviolent #revolutions on women’s private #property rights, comparing Greece, Iran, Cuba, & Costa Rica doi.org/10.1163/2772...
July 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
📰Christopher Coyne & Abigail R. Hall Blanco develop an #economic case for practice pacifism, thus connecting applying economic scholarship on political institutions & government failure to pacifism
June 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
📰 Olena Nikolayenko examines interplay between #gender norms & nonviolent/civil resistance in Ukraine's #Euromaidan: how they are contested but also how they constrain patterns of resistance doi.org/10.1163/2772...
June 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
📰 @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social calls for more focus on pacifist or war #abolitionist campaigns in the debate about autonomous weapons systems (#AWS) & how they are an affront to 'human dignity' doi.org/10.1163/2772...
June 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
📰Jordan Lofthouse brings together literatures on nonviolent action & free market #environmentalism to argue that property rights, entrepreneurship, & mutually beneficial exchange can help address environmental problems: doi.org/10.1163/2772...
April 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📰Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra & Seema Shekhawat examine #Gandhian ideal of #nonviolence & its intersection with his vision of the nation-state, contrasting his vision of #nationalism with that of Iqbal & Jinnah: doi.org/10.1163/2772...
April 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
📰 Raquel da Silva & Priya Dixit compare neoliberal #care practices with Black #feminist, #abolitionist, #Indigenous, & #anarchist alternatives to demonstrate how the latter counter structural violence: doi.org/10.1163/2772... #intersectionality
April 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
📰 Yahya Alshamy, Nathan Goodman & Mikayla Novak build on Elinor & Vincent #Ostrom to argue #peace can be #polycentric & thus not depend on a centralised #state: doi.org/10.1163/2772...
March 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
📰Andrew Fiala identifies & discusses 3 commitments in the #ontology of #pacifism: 1/ peace is a positive reality, 2/ interdependence & interrelationship are fundamental, 3/ the entities of social & political life are socially constructed: doi.org/10.1163/2772...
March 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
📰Mujahid Osman & Rashied Omar analyse Islamic peace praxis of Rabia Terri Harris, founder of #MuslimPeaceFellowship, showing it an alternative to dominant forms of #Sufism in modern period & a productive basis for a theology of #justpeace: doi.org/10.1163/2772...
March 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
📰Silviya Lechner revisits the problem of seeking peace in #Hobbes’s moral & political theory, thus complicating common readings of #Leviathan: doi.org/10.1163/2772...
March 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
📢JPN 3:1 now out. Includes articles on uncivil #obedience, unarmed civilian protection (#UCP), counter #misogyny, #German pacifism, & Martin Luther King (#MLK), plus 2 book reviews ➡️ brill.com/view/journal...
March 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
📰Kerstin Wüstner analyses social representations of pacifists in #Germany since #Ukraine war, unpacking the different negative attributes assigned to them doi.org/10.1163/2772...
February 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
📰Louise Ridden explores role of #precariousness & #vulnerability in civilian-to-civilian protection & its intersection with gender & age. Includes #feminist critique & 2 case studies. #UCP doi.org/10.1163/2772...
February 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
📰 Jennifer Kling discusses the method of #uncivil #obedience (or malicious compliance): what it is, its relationship to violence, & the conditions for it to be justified doi.org/10.1163/2772...
January 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
📰Halim Rane examines refs to concept of #covenant in #Qurʾān & specific covenantal docs attributed to #Muhammad, showing that covenants in Qurʾān & #Sunnah establish #humansecurity & peaceful coexistence as basis of relations betw Muslims & non-Muslims. doi.org/10.1163/2772...
November 11, 2024 at 3:48 PM
📰Juan Cole explores #Sufi commentaries of #Qur’ān 41:33-35 as central ethical counsel for #nonviolence & as opening up possibility of peace & reconciliation. Focuses esp on 3 prominent thinkers of Nishapur and Shiraz: #Ṭabarī, #Qushayrī & #Baqlī. doi.org/10.1163/2772...
November 11, 2024 at 3:48 PM
📰Paola Pizzi discusses #JawdatSaid’s polemic interpretation of #Quran, specifically “there is no compulsion in religion” (Q.2:256) as the true #jihad & as the hermeneutical inspiration for #nonviolence.https://doi.org/10.1163/27727882-bja00023
November 11, 2024 at 3:47 PM