TY  - BOOK
AU  - Press,Robert M.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Ripples of Hope
T2  - Protest and social movements
SN  - 9789048525157
AV  - JC328.3 .P747 2015
U1  - 323 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Nonviolence
KW  - Africa
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - Social movements
KW  - Government, Resistance to
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-315) and index; Introduction ; Resisting repression without violence -- Sierra Leone. Students shake the pillars of power ; Women help restore democracy ; Mass noncooperation helps defeat a violent junta -- Liberia. Nonviolent resistance in abeyance ; Peaceful resistance during a civil war -- Kenya. Individual resistance against repression ; Establishing a culture of resistance -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Methodology ; Interviews ; Comparative levels of repression ; Chronologies ; Abbreviations and significant terms; Open Access
N2  - Based on case studies in three African countries and new social movement theory, examines individual and group protests stood up to violence and oppression through mainly nonviolent means
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/66323/
ER  -