The German Rhineland is home to the world's largest opencast lignite coal mine and human-made hole e the Hambach mine. Over the last seven years, RWE, the mine operator, has faced an increase in militant resistance, culminating in the occupation of the Hambacher Forest and acts of civil disobedience and sabotage. The mine provides a European case study to examine the repressive techniques deplo...

History presents many examples of men and women who find themselves in a position of having to disobey civil law. The motives for such disobedience can only be founded on moral conscience, as influenced by other laws - immutable and recognized as true. The author studies the historical context of the appearance, during the Age of the Enlightenment, of a new concept: tolerance. Ceasing to repres...

Environmental issue is a very sensitive matter in state governance today in sub-Saharan Africa. Its utilization and management are issues that government can hardly ignore. Oil is Nigeria`s highest source of foreign earnings. And 94% of the commodity is produce in Niger Delta region of the country while the remaining 4.5% is produce in the south eastern region of the country specifically in are...

In recent years we have seen the rise of climate activism in Czech Republic. contrast with transactional based predominantly on small, advocacy and professionalized NGOs which use lobbying as their main repertoire action supported by expert knowledge, this takes shape embodied practices mass civil disobedience such occupying fossil fuel infrastructures during camps. The urgency crisis has broug...

What happens when scientists become activists? In this paper, we discuss the principles, commitments and experiences of Scientist Rebellion (SR), a movement scientists, academics, researchers committed to activism, advocacy non-violent civil disobedience against (in)actions governments, corporations other institutions, including academic ones. sharing from frontlines direct actions with SR alon...

In the past two years, against backdrop of Covid-19 epidemic, civil disobedience has been on rise in Israeli society. While preserves boundaries discourse and democracy, it also poses a real danger to existence Attitudes toward reflect core values particular culture. Thus, attitudes obedience or society must be examined with respect religious roots Jewish This article examines towards issue for...

Aside from the case of refugees under international law, are non-citizen outsiders morally justified in unlawfully entering another state? Recent answers to this question, based on a purported right necessity or civil disobedience, exclude many cases border-crossing and fail account for its distinctive political character. I argue that certain non-humanitarian cases, unlawful involves exercise ...

Ever since President Bush introduced his ‘Road Map’ for a permanent solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in April 2003, a great deal of public attention has focused on its demand for a reformed Palestinian Authority (PA) to confront aggressively radical Palestinian groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad who violently oppose a two-state solution to the conflict. One of the major obstacle...