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📰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...

📰Adam North reflects on the place of #threats as a nonviolent means of redistributing power (via Sorel, syndicalism & Fanon): brill.com/view/journal...

📰Caroline Kennedy-Pipe argues that, over time & in light of the evolution major international conflicts, Nicholas #Rengger developed an increasingly pacifist sensibility: doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📢Call for Papers for free #Pacifism & #Nonviolence workshop (to be held in April 2026). Deadline 5 Nov. Full info in PDF in CfP tab here: brill.com/view/journal.... Please circulate widely.

📅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!

📢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...

📰 @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...

📰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

📰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...

📰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

📰 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...

📰 @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...

New PNRN blog by Silviya Lechner (summarising a paper we recently published) on the disposition to seek #peace in #Hobbes’s #Leviathan: pacifismandnonviolence.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/t...

📰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...

Are you writing on animals and (non)violence? Are you interested in getting it published in the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence? If so, I have brilliant news for you: I'm putting together a Special Issue on Animals and (Non)violence! Details here: brill.com/fileasset/do... #polisky #animalsky

📰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...

📰 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

Andrew Fiala provides a summary of his recently published article on #ontology of #pacifism in this blog post: pacifismandnonviolence.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/o...

📰 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...

📰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...

📰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...

📰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...

New PNRN blog by Kerstin Wuestner (summarising a paper we recently published) on the framing of #pacifists in #Germany since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine: pacifismandnonviolence.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/p...

📢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...

📰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...

📰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...

New PNRN blog post by Jennifer Kling (summarising her article we recently published): "The Nature, Ethics, and Politics of #Uncivil #Obedience": pacifismandnonviolence.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/t...

📰 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...

New 📰 by our EiC @alexchristoy.bsky.social published in International Affairs.

I have created this starter pack for nonviolent movements and civil resistance experts as I didn't find one. I hope it is useful. Please, feel free to suggest new additions! go.bsky.app/U8AjoRy

📰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...

📰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...

📰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

📰Interview of Mohammed Abu-Nimer by Tom Woerner-Powell reflecting on recent decades of scholarship on #Muslim-led nonviolent #resistance, #peacemaking & #peacebuilding initiatives - including methodological, institutional, & intercultural challenges. doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰Tom Woerner-Powell & Andrew Fiala introduce special on Nonviolence & Pacifism in #Islamic Traditions by situating it in challenges including history of #Eurocentrism & obstacles to #interdisciplinarity (esp between #philosophy & #religiousstudies). doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰1st JPN “forum” out now, on #Malm’s How to Blow Up Pipeline. Contribs from Brian Martin, Alex Christoyannopoulos, Isak Svensson, Kathleen Cunningham, Alexei Anisin, Antoine Durance,& Manuel Cervera-Marzal complicating Malm’s analysis of #climate activism & case for #sabotage doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰Tracey Nicholls builds on feminist literature to explore potential of 'networked affirmation' as politics of care & nonviolent resistance to counter online #misogyny, illustrated with case study of Girls Room Graff from Tumblr: doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰Paul Wilson reflects on origins & role of #martinlutherking's #nonviolent #personalism as a reason why he chose to avoid the 'backfire problem': doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰Koshka Duff unpicks liberal legitimisations of #policeviolence through #BLM, #abolitionism, & #WalterBenjamin, reflecting on how depictions of wrongful violence as 'exceptional' serve to normalise complicities of policing in problems police claim to be addressing doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰 by Blake Hereth pushing back against #moral intuitions invoked against pacifism re self- & other-defense & shifting burden of proof to anti-pacifists ➡️ doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰Devin Joshi develops model of #nonviolent #leadership based on #Daoist philosopher #Laozi, then illustrates it using example of former Swedish PM Olof #Palme doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰Mayeul Kauffmann & Randy Janzen review current #data on unarmed civilian #peacekeeping, reflect on challenges (incl methodologies & structuring), & set out potential future for #UCP dataset to improve research & field practice doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰Shane Barter problematises assumptions of uniform impartial #civilian #innocence by reflecting on degrees/spectrum of partisan civilian #support/collaboration & #indirect violence in war doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰MS Wallace examines commonalities & differences in work of 'credible messengers', 'formers', & #antiwar #veterans in disrupting violence thru disengagement & activism as former fighters. #violenceprevention #conflictdisruption #militarism doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰Jeremy Allouche et al analyse #women's agency for self-protection in North/South #Kivu in DR #Congo, incl impact of culture of #silence & strategies of women's protection groups. doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰Nerve Macaspac examines social & spatial dimensions of civilian agency in violent conflict, specifically work of #indigenous community in upkeep of #peacezone & #selfprotection. #geopolitics #unarmedcivilianprotection #sagada #Philippines doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰JPN 1:2 intro by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Jeremy Allouche, & Felicity Gray reflect on how #state/#military v #civilian binary leave gap in understanding #nonviolent civilian action, review growing lit filling it, & introduce the 5 articles in special issue. doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📑Jo Somerset examines lives of Sybil Morrison & Myrtle Solomon, leading 20thC British & international #pacifists whose lesbian identities remained hidden until very late. Multi-facetted #LGBTQ+ & peace movement #history. doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰Argomaniz examines impact of late 1990s #Basque civic movement #BastaYa's opposition to ETA's terrorism - ie case study of nonviolent resistance to *non-state* violence: doi.org/10.1163/2772...