Table of Contents

1.Introduction, Véronique Dudouet 2. Western Sahara: Nonviolence as a last resort, Jacob Mundy and Stephen Zunes 3. From the mountains and jungles to the villages and streets: transitions from violent to nonviolent resistance in West Papua, Jason MacLeod 4. Evolution of armed to unarmed resistance in Palestine, Mazin Qumsiyeh 5. South Africa: The Townships Rise Up, Stephen Zunes 6. From Armed Struggle to Interaction with Civil Society: Chiapas’ Zapatista National Liberation Army, Guiomar Rovira Sancho 7. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Indigenous Armed Struggle and Indigenous Nonviolent Resistance in Colombia, José Armando Cárdenas Sarrias and Katrin Planta 8. Egypt’s Revolution and the Transformation of Armed Islamist Movements towards unarmed activism, Omar Ashour 9. Nepal’s Maoists: Violent Revolution and Non-Violent Political Activism, Manish Thapa 10. Conclusion, Véronique Dudouet

About the Author

Véronique Dudouet is senior researcher and programme director at the Berghof Foundation in Berlin, Germany.

Reviews

"Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation is clearly groundbreaking and I am convinced that a new sub-field of civil resistance has been shaped." -- Stellan Vinthagen, Editor of Journal of Resistance Studies"If you are academically inclined, you should immediately consult a new book edited by Véronique Dudouet titled Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation (Routledge, 2015). The term ‘civil resistance’ means nonviolent action and ‘conflict transformation’ means changing the nature of the conflict from one form to another. The subtitle is more revealing: Transitions from armed to nonviolent struggle.... For now, Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation is the essential source. It shows that transforming conflicts towards nonviolent struggles is usually a complex and challenging process. Most importantly, it is possible." -- Brian Martin, University of Wollongong, Australia