The 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police provides rich case material in how an attack perceived as unjust can backfire. Drawing on nonviolence theory, an original framework is developed to analyze attacks as potential backfires that are usually, but not always, inhibited. Attackers can use a variety of methods to inhibit backfires, including covering up the attack, devaluing the ta...

When examining the history of religions and dominant religious narratives, institutions, cultures, ideologies, practices in contemporary world, one is tempted to conclude that religion more problem relating diverse issues war peace. Dominant cultures seem overwhelmingly be causes, express systemic structures, provide ideological, theological, philosophical justifications for violence, war, mili...

Very little attention has been paid to both partners beliefs about why violence in their previously abusive relationship has stopped or significantly reduced despite well-documented details in the research literature outlining the characteristics of both victims and perpetrators. This study aimed to provide some understanding of how each partner believed that the violence has ended. However the...

Nuclear rivalry, as well terrorism and the war against terror, exemplify dangerous escalation of violence that is threatening our world. Gandhi’s militant nonviolence offers a possible alternative avoids complacent indifference toward injustice imitation leads to its escalation. The French-American cultural anthropologist René Girard discovered mimetic rivalries one main roots human conflicts, ...

This article brings to bear different strands of critical theory on the issue police violence and securitarian capitalism, with a focus current situation in France, discussing Judith Butler’s argument for nonviolence The Force Nonviolence relation Jacques Rancière’s distinction politics police, Giorgio Agamben’s ideas gesture act, Silvia Federici’s understanding primitive accumulation reproduct...