Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026📢JPN 4:2 now out. Includes articles on #AWS, Russian #pop, #ethics, #Gandhi, #threats, #Rengger (& 2 replies to it), plus 3 book reviews: brill.com/view/journal... 031
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026📰 Amos Olumatoye assesses the multisectoral consequences of the Indigenous People of Biafra ( #IPOB) movement’s strategic shift from nonviolent resistance to armed struggle on people of Southeast #Nigeria: doi.org/10.1163/2772... 121
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 22/08/2026📰 Błażej Bado identifies strategies used by #protestant religious #pacifists in #Poland in pursuit of peace & analyses them in relation to Marc Gopin's 8 steps of peacebuilding: doi.org/10.1163/2772... 011
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026📰 Cécile Dubernet discusses relevance of analogical thinking for unarmed civilian protection ( #UCP) by reflecting on similarities & differences with #permaculture: doi.org/10.1163/2772... 000
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026📰 Jacopo Viti & @alexchristoy.bsky.social reflect on how German, French & Italian #Green parties have struggled to reconcile historic pacifist commitments with #Ukraine crisis, resulting in marginalisation of strategic #pacifism from their discourses: doi.org/10.1163/2772... 142
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 13/07/2026📰 Sefa Secen traces genealogy of nonviolence from separatism to activism from #Molokans, #Doukhobors, #Brethren, #Mennonites, & #Quakers, through #Ballou, #Garrison, #Tolstoy & #Thoreau, to #Gandhi & #MLK: doi.org/10.1163/2772... 021
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 27/04/2026📰Brian Martin reflects on how powerful opponents have incorporated insights about political #jiujitsu in the dynamics of #nonviolent action (following #Sharp), & considers activist counter-tactics to overcome them: doi.org/10.1163/2772... 021
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 18/02/2026📢JPN 4:1 now out. Includes articles on #Ukraine, #Hobbes, #ontology, #Islam, & #care, plus 3 book reviews: brill.com/view/journal... 041
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 23/01/2026📰Vassilios Paipais responds to Croline Kennedy-Pipe's article pitching #Rengger as edging towards pacifism, arguing Rengger the #Oakeshottian sceptic would refuse the label: doi.org/10.1163/2772... 011
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 23/01/2026📰Boris Tsokov explores how #pacifism & #prefiguration come together in prefigurative pacifism and illustrates it through case study of Iliya Enchev's early twentieth-century #Tolstoyan & #vegetarian –pacifist movement in #Bulgaria: doi.org/10.1163/2772... 011
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 29/10/2025❗ Reminder: deadline for this is a week from now 📅 001
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 22/10/2025📰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... 011
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 21/10/2025📰Adam North reflects on the place of #threats as a nonviolent means of redistributing power (via Sorel, syndicalism & Fanon): brill.com/view/journal... 001
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 13/10/2025📰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... 032
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 03/10/2025📢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.brill.com 036
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 02/10/2025📅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! 012
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 24/09/2025📢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... 022
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 22/09/2025📰 @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... 042
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 12/09/2025📰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 011
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 22/07/2025📰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... 010
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 24/06/2025📰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 121
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025📰 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... 132
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 02/06/2025📰 @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... 042
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 19/05/2025New 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...pacifismandnonviolence.wordpress.comThe Disposition to Seek Peace in Hobbes’s Leviathan – A Question of Trust and RiskBy Dr Silviya Lechner Anglo-American University, Prague Hobbes’s state of nature, or what contemporary libertarian philosophers like Robert Nozick call ‘anarchy’ seems so worn out a concept as to d… 010
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 28/04/2025📰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... 010
Reposted by Journal of Pacifism and NonviolenceSara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Are 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 #animalskybrill.com 12214
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 23/04/2025📰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... 001
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 22/04/2025📰 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 021
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Andrew Fiala provides a summary of his recently published article on #ontology of #pacifism in this blog post: pacifismandnonviolence.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/o...pacifismandnonviolence.wordpress.comOn Exploring the Ontological Intuitions of Pacifism and NonviolenceBy Professor Andrew Fiala Fresno State University My recent article in the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, “Toward an Ontology of Pacifism: Three Ontological Intuitions of the Pacifist Traditi… 041
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 19/03/2025📰 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... 076
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 18/03/2025📰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... 064
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 17/03/2025📰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... 032
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 15/03/2025📰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... 031
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 10/03/2025New 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...pacifismandnonviolence.wordpress.comPacifists in Germany: Guardian of the dove of peace or fallen angels that come from hell?By Prof. Dr. Kerstin Wüstner The war as a crisis requiring management In times of crisis—such as economic downturns, the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, threats to democracy, and escalated c… 021
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 05/03/2025📢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... 022
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 22/02/2025📰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... 010
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 21/02/2025📰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... 011
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 17/02/2025New 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...pacifismandnonviolence.wordpress.comThe Nature, Ethics, and Politics of Uncivil ObedienceBy Dr Jennifer Kling University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Uncivil obedience, also called malicious compliance, work-to-rule, or an Italian strike, has the potential to be a galvanizing force fo… 021
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 20/01/2025📰 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... 121
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 16/01/2025New 📰 by our EiC @alexchristoy.bsky.social published in International Affairs. 000
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Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 11/11/2024📰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... 100
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 11/11/2024📰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... 100
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 11/11/2024📰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 000
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 11/11/2024📰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... 010
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 11/11/2024📰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... 000
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 11/11/2024📰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... 000
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 11/11/2024📰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... 000
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 11/11/2024📰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... 000
Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 11/11/2024📰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... 000