Ce cours apparaît dans les formations suivantes :
• ESPOL - Licence 3 de Relations Internationales - S6 - 3 ECTS

Pré requis

None.

Objectifs du cours

To introduce main concepts and ideas in civil resistance

To discuss a variety of case studies of nonviolent campaigns and movements throughout history (the past 120 years)

To reflect on the effectiveness of civil resistance and its specific power dynamics which make a clean break from the traditional concept of monolithic, top-down power

To understand how nonviolent conflict works and how movements have shaped history and continue to shape domestic politics and international relations today

Contenu du cours

February 12, 2024

Module 1. Introduction to the Course

Course Overview and Objectives • What Is Civil Resistance? • Basic Concepts in Power and Political Defiance • The Emergence and Evolution of Civil Resistance Studies

• Merriman, Hardy and Nicola Barrach-Yousefi. “Glossary of Civil Resistance: A Resource for Study and Translation of Key Terms.” Introduction and entries #6, 25, 76, 81, 87, 114, 117, 121, 122, 137, 144, 151, 154. International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, 2021. (Link on iCampus.)


• Chenoweth, Erica and Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham. “Understanding nonviolent resistance: An introduction.” Journal of Peace Research 50, no. 3 (May 2013): 271– 276. (Link on iCampus.)


• Carter, April. "People Power and Protest: The Literature on Civil Resistance in Historical Context" in Civil Resistance and Power Politics, 25-42. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. (Link on iCampus.)

March 11, 2024

Module 2. Civil Resistance in International Relations: Case Studies

Struggles against Domination • Struggles against Corruption • Governments-in-Exile and Parallel Institution Building

Students deliver a presentation on one of the following case studies or on one of the readings in Module 5 (below):

• Momba, Jotham C. and Fay Gadsden. “Zambia: Nonviolent Strategies Against Colonialism, 1900s-1960s.” Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013): 71-88. (Link on iCampus.)


• Beyerle, Shaazka. “Nonviolent Resistance Against the Mafia: Italy.” Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2014: 115-135. (Link on iCampus.)


• Quiroz, Alfonso W. “Cuba: Nonviolent Strategies for Autonomy and Independence, 1819s-1902).” Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013): 319-338. (Link on iCampus.)


• Jigdal, Tenzin and Amber French. “One Foot In and One Foot Out: Interview with a Tibetan MP in Exile.” Minds of the Movement, September 7, 2023. International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. (Link on iCampus.)

March 18, 2024

Module 3. Power Dynamics and Regime Responses

Pro-Democracy Struggles • Loyalty and Military Defections • Repression and Backfire

In-class film screening (1H): Bringing Down a Dictator - guest speaker, Ivan Marovic, former leader of Otpor movement featured in film (to be confirmed)

• Binnendijk, Anika Locke and Ivan Marovic. "Power and Persuasion: Nonviolent Strategies to Influence State Security Forces in Serbia (2000) and Ukraine (2004)." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 39 (2006): 411-429. (Link on iCampus.)


• Nepstad, Sharon Erickson. "Mutiny and nonviolence in the Arab Spring: Exploring military defections and loyalty in Egypt, Bahrain, and Syria." Journal of Peace Research 50, no. 3 (May 2013): 337–349. (Link on iCampus.)

March 25, 2024

Module 4. Human Rights, Peace and Democracy

International Human Rights • Peacebuilding • Mass Atrocities

In-class webinar screening (36 minutes): “Can People Power Movements Strengthen International Human Rights Law?” ICNC Academic Webinar with Dr. Elizabeth A. Wilson (January 11, 2018).

• Dudouet, Veronique. "Powering to Peace: Integrated Civil Resistance and Peacebuilding Strategies." ICNC Special Report Series 1, April 2017: 4-16. (Link on iCampus.)


• Ackerman, Peter and Hardy Merriman.
  
  

  Modalités d'enseignement

  Organisation du cours

  Instructor lectures on the readings, class discussion/debate, student presentations, a mid-term exam and a written exam (choice of 2 topics; students receive a list of 10 possible topics two weeks before the exam)

  Méthodes pédagogiques

  
  

  Évaluation

  Contrôle continu : coeff. 100

  
  

  Bibliographie

  • See course content.

  
  

  Ressources internet

  • Albert Einstein Institution: https://www.aeinstein.org/

    
    

    Institut pour la Paix, groupe de travail Résistance civile, non-violence et culture de la paix : https://www.institutpourlapaix.org/recherche/resistance-civile/

    
    

    International Center on Nonviolent Conflict: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/

    
    

    Mapping Violent and Nonviolent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO): https://navcomap.wcfia.harvard.edu/

    
    

    Minds of the Movement Blog: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/blog/

    
    

    Nonviolence International: https://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/

    
    

    Oxford Bibliographies "Civil resistance":

    
    

    https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199743292/obo-9780199743292-0194.xml

    
    

    Waging Nonviolence: https://wagingnonviolence.org/