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What is non-violence?

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Non-violent resistance is a civilian-based method used to wage conflict through social, psychological, economic and political means, without the threat or use of violence

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What is the overall objective of non-violence?

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To shift the power balance

3
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Which are the two types of non-violence?

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  • Principled non-violence

- Strategic non-violence

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What is principled non-violence?

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Grounded in religious and /or ethically based injunctions against violence

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What is strategic non-violence?

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Grounded in cost-benefit analysis

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Which are the four possible outcomes of non-violence?

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  • Conversion: adoption of the non-violent group’s point of view
  • Accommodation: concessions, with no fundamental change of mind, in order to minimize potential losses
  • Non-violent coercion: concessions, once the group has succeeded in severely undermining the elite’s power
  • Disintegration: the ruling entity ceases to exist
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What are marches and demonstrations?

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Non-violent public mass actions of support for/against a political cause

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What is civil disobedience?

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A public, non-violent and conscientious act contrary to law, which intends to bring about a change in the policies or laws of the government

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What is understood by ‘unjust law’?

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Human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law, that degrades human personality

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What is a genocide?

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Coordinated acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group

11
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Which are the four forms of third-party involvement in conflict?

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  • Embargoes
  • Election observation
  • Humanitarian intervention
  • NATO missions
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What is an embargo?

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Any prohibition of trade with a particular nation-state or group of nation-states