ISBN:
9781282133792
,
9780262305556
,
1282133799
,
9780262017626
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xxi, 288 p.))
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
The MIT Press Ser.
Parallel Title:
Druckausg.
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Bock, Joseph G. The technology of nonviolence
DDC:
303.61
Keywords:
Social media Electronic books
;
Nonviolence
;
Violence Prevention
;
Social media
;
Violence Prevention
;
Nonviolence
;
Social media
;
Electronic books
;
Umsturz
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Gewaltlosigkeit
;
Friedenssicherung
;
Soziales Netzwerk
;
Social Media
;
Neue Technologie
Abstract:
How technology and community organizing can combine to help prevent violence, with examples from Chicago to Sri Lanka.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Theory and Methodology -- 1 Toward an Applied Theory of Violence Prevention -- 2 Reporting and Warning about Deadly Possibilities -- II Violence Prevention on the Ground -- 3 Organizing against Ethnoreligious Violence in Ahmedabad -- 4 Interrupting Gang Violence in Chicago -- 5 Counteracting Ethnoreligious Violence in Sri Lanka -- 6 Crowdsourcing during Post-election Violence in Kenya -- 7 Circumventing Tribal Violence in East Africa -- 8 Comparing the Approaches -- 9 How to Intervene Effectively -- 10 What to Do When Violence Prevention Is Unlikely to Work -- III Resource Allocation Considerations and Recommendations -- 11 Concerns about Misallocation of Resources -- 12 Future Directions and Recommendations -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Reporting Sheet for Field Officers -- Appendix B: Categories for Local Conflict Early Warning and Early Response -- Appendix C: "Super Event" Categories -- Appendix D: Indicators of the CEWARN Mechanism -- Appendix E: Results from Statistical Analysis on Organized Raids -- Acronyms -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
Towards an applied theory of violence prevention -- Reporting and warning about deadly possibilities -- Organizing against ethnoreligious violence in Ahmedabad -- Overcoming gang violence in Chicago -- Counteracting ethnoreligious violence in Sri Lanka -- Crowdsourcing during post-election violence in Kenya -- Foisting tribal violence in East Africa -- Comparing the approaches -- How to intervene effectively -- What to do when violence prevention is unlikely to work -- Concerns about misallocation of resources -- Future directions and recommendations.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-273) and index. - Description based on print version record
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