[From the preface:]

The purpose of this manual is to provide those who want to “do something” about hate the something they can do, step by step, not only for the immediate aftermath of a hateful act, but for years to come to improve their community. [...]

However one chooses to define it, hate is at its most dangerous when it is seen as something noble—and not only noble, but as a “truth” that’s a rallying point to organize around, in order to inflict it on our neighbors. Expressions of hate are shocking, a swastika on a wall, a noose on someone’s locker, a rally by white supremacists in full regalia or business suits, explaining why other human beings—the “theys”—are a threat to “us,” so much so they should have fewer rights, if not outright expelled or murdered.

This manual has been written by people who have spent decades combating hate and hate groups. If we’ve learned one lesson, it’s that organized haters are classic bullies. If they get away with bullying, they will only bully more.

But we’ve learned another lesson too, that communities CAN push back against hatred. It’s hard work, but not daunting or overly complicated. This manual will show you how.

Our goal here is to provide different organizations in different regions—small rural coalitions, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in larger cities, and everything in between—the best practices to combat hate and hate groups. Some of the strategies are reactive, but the most important ones are proactive—organizing so when hate comes to town, it has a lesser chance of success. [...]

What you’ll see in this manual are tried-and-true strategies for organizing against hate, from the nuts and bolts of how to build and sustain groups and coalitions, how to reach out to others for help, how to report crimes to the police, how to work with journalists and politicians, and how to research hate groups in your community.

Contents:

• Preface

• Organizing A Community Group

• Online Versus In-Person Organizing

• What To Do Now That Your Group Is Organized, Especially In Response To An Incident Of Hate

• Messaging: Responding To Messages Of Hate, Bigotry, And Exclusion Disinformation, Misinformation, And Dealing With Trolls

• Communication Strategies

• Social Media

• Political And Policy Work

• Other Steps To Mobilize Your Community: Building A Movement Against Hate

• The Importance Of Opposition Research

• Working With Academics

• Working With Schools

• Some Words About Speech

• Turning Free Speech Rights On Their Head

• Community Symbolic Rejection Of Hate

• How To Deal With, And Report, A Hate Crime Or Hate Incident

• Security

• Scenarios For Action

• Conclusion

• Resource Directory

• Acknowledgements

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Urban violence has become a major threat in big cities of the world. Where the orthodox protection through the police and individual target hardening remain inefficient, the population must organize itself.

This book contains first-hand accounts on a selection of the most innovative experiences in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Arab region and is of interest likewise for academics and urban practitioners, policy makers, international cooperation experts or travelers preparing a visit of one of the affected countries. 

Table of contents:

Preface

Contents

SETTING THE CONTEXT

• Introduction

• Violence, Cities, and Prevention: A Conceptual Framework for Reducing Violence in the Urban Realm

LESSONS LEARNT FROM AFRICA

• Ethnopolitics, Fear and Safety in a Johannesburg Neighbourhood

• Land Transformation and Criminal Violence in Dandora Neighbourhood, Nairobi, Kenya

• Communities and the Prevention of Crime and Violence in Douala, Cameroon

• "There is no Justice in Guinea-Bissau" Strategies of Preventing, Handling, and Aggravating Conflicts in Local Dispute Settlement

A LESSON FROM CHINA

• Urban Violence and the Chinese State in the Post-Mao Reform

LESSONS LEARNT FROM LATIN AMERICA

• Local Civil Society and the New Puzzle of Violence in Central America

• Meanings and Practices of Non-violence

• Integrated Urban Upgrading and Violence Prevention in San Salvador Results of an Impact Evaluation

• Drug-Related Violence in Mexico: State and Community Responses. A qualitative Approach

YOUTH AND GANG VIOLENCE

• Youth as Key Actors in the Social Prevention of Violence

• Overcoming the Invisible Boundaries of an Informal Neighborhood: A Youth Initiative in Itagüi, Colombia

• Targeting Adolescence Vandalism in a Refugee Camp

ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO COMBAT URBAN VIOLENCE

• Religious Procession as a Mediator for Social Intimacy: Building Communal Harmony in Dharavi after the 1992 Mumbai Riot

• Violence and the Enchantment of Everyday Life in Johannesburg: Preliminary Insights

• Embracing the Complexity of Community Safety Challenges

The Contributors

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A Note to Readers:

The idea for this glossary originated with the positive response to the lecture ‘Definitions, Conceptions, and Debates in Peace and Security Studies in Africa’. Delivered by Dr Ebrima Sall at the Africa Programme Advisory Meeting in Maputo, Mozambique, 23–25 October 2003, it was jointly written by Sall, then at the Nordic Africa Institute, and Dr Mary E. King, professor of peace and conflict studies at the University for Peace.

Contents:

• A Note to Readers  

• GLOSSARY  

• References  

• For Further Reading  

• Getting Started on the Web  

• List of Terms

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What are the factors which have made South Africa so appealing to terrorist and radical Islamic organisations? What role has South Africa played within global Jihad?

This book examines how South Africa has come to play a major role in global terror networks stemming from growing criminality and corruption within state structures. It also examines the interaction between local and foreign extremist elements which undermine South Africa’s security.

The author brings the discussion beyond the usual mundane academic treatise to the sharp reality of the global dangers of politicised Islam – a Muslim talking candidly about Islam. 

The book contributes to both a rethinking of liberal democracy and its relationship to world politics, as well as the effects of liberal internationalism on global processes. Furthermore, Liberalism and Transformation invites readers to reflect on global ethics and transformation in world politics. In the first place, it shows how ethical imaginings of the world have direct effects on actions of transformative importance. In the second place, it suggests that discourses are fluid, changing, and complex.

Contents (brief):

• 1. Introduction

• 2. War on Terror or the War of Ideas?

• 3. Global Jihad – Target South Africa?

• 4. Playing Ostrich: Inadequate Responses to Terrorism

• 5. Responding to Terrorism: The Way Forward

• 6. Conclusion:

        Jihad: A South African Perspective

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Liberalism and Transformation is the first scholarly work that explores the historical, philosophical, and intellectual development of global liberalism since the nineteenth century in the context of the deployment of violence, force, and intervention. Using an approach that includes interpretive and contextual analysis of texts from writers, philosophers, and policy-makers across nearly two centuries, as well as historiographical and historical analysis of archival documents (some of which have been recently declassified) and other media, Liberalism and Transformation narrates the messy history of emancipatory liberalism and its engagement with issues of war and peace. 

The book contributes to both a rethinking of liberal democracy and its relationship to world politics, as well as the effects of liberal internationalism on global processes. Furthermore, Liberalism and Transformation invites readers to reflect on global ethics and transformation in world politics. In the first place, it shows how ethical imaginings of the world have direct effects on actions of transformative importance. In the second place, it suggests that discourses are fluid, changing, and complex.

Contents (brief):

Acknowledgements

Ch. 1: Introduction: Liberalism and Violence

Ch. 2: The How of Emancipatory Liberalism

Ch. 3: Transformation and Civilization: Liberalism, Empire, Intervention

Ch. 4: Transformation and Self-Determination: Internationalists at War

Ch. 5: Transformation and Totalitarianism: Intervention and Cold War Liberalism

Ch. 6: Transformation and Terror: State Failure, Development, and Human Rights

Ch. 7: Conclusion: Toward a Minimalist Liberalism

Notes

Bibliography

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The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, associated with the United Nations Security Council resolutions of a similar name, is widely recognized as the most significant and wide- reaching global framework for advancing gender equality in military affairs, conflict resolution and security governance. The first of these resolutions, UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, bound the international community to ensure, among other provisions, greater participation of women in decision making in national, regional and international institutions; their further involvement in peacekeeping, field operations, mission consultation and peace negotiations; increased funds and other support to the gender work of UN entities; enhanced state commitments to the human rights of women and girls and the protection of those rights under international law; the introduction of special measures against sexual violence in armed conflict; and due consideration to the experiences and needs of women and girls in humanitarian, refugee, disarmament and postconflict settings. 

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This reprint discusses the relation between nonviolence and religion by adopting Mohandas K. Gandhi’s concept of satyagraha as a starting point and by also discussing nonviolent hermeneutics of holy scriptures with a special emphasis on interpretations of the Qur’an. 

The first part consists of chapters that directly deal with Gandhi’s concept of nonviolence and how it influenced later faith-based peace activists. By reading Gandhi’s active nonviolence through the lens of Judith Butler’s recent work on nonviolence, it engages with contemporary discussions about violence and nonviolence and also reflects on how nonviolence relates to gender. It also looks at how Gandhi related to different religions and further broadens the usual focus on physical violence by addressing economic violence and environmental degradation. Gandhi’s view of Judaism and Zionism is critically discussed in one chapter. 

The second part comprises contributions that study the use of holy scriptures in relation to (non)violence, its problems, its boundaries and its inspiration. Religious authoritative texts play a major role in the continuation and legitimation of connected belief systems. Again, Gandhi’s own nonviolent hermeneutics of holy scriptures are investigated and his interpretation of the biblical figure of Daniel is especially discussed. Three contributions deal with the interpretation of the Qur’an and its potential for nonviolence. A concluding chapter provides a range of hermeneutic guidelines for an Islamic theology of nonviolence. 

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This is a joint United Nations and World Bank study that looks at how development processes can better interact with diplomacy and mediation, security and other tools to prevent conflict from becoming violent. The study’s objective is to improve the way in which domestic development processes interact with security, diplomatic, justice, and human rights efforts to prevent conflicts from becoming violent.

The study stresses the importance of exclusion-related grievances that are at the root of many violent conflicts today; it particularly focuses on grievances related to access to power, natural resources, security, and justice.

While societies have a shared responsibility to ensure that conflict does not become violent, governments and states are particularly accountable in this area. However, in addressing the multiple global risk factors that drive violent

conflict today, governments are often one actor among many.

Faced with these multiple challenges, prevention efforts require a shift in approach to address the risks of violence before violence starts. Yet to a much greater degree, the problem is one of incentives. Actors at all levels do not always have incentives to act effectively or  collectively to prevent conflicts from turning violent.

Based on its review of cases in which prevention has been successful, the study has articulated several recommendations for both countries facing emerging risks of violent conflict and the international community. These include the following:

• Prevention requires sustained, inclusive, and targeted attention and action. Prevention is not only about avoiding or stopping repeated violent crises. While it is necessary to mitigate the impact of shocks, prevention also requires proactively addressing deeper, underlying risks that prevent sustainable development and peace.

• Most successful prevention is endogenous, undertaken by local or national actors. International actors need to support these broad and inclusive processes. In this sense, prevention enhances sovereignty, empowering each country to be in control of its own destiny and the state to build positive relationships with its citizens.

• Exclusion from access to power, opportunity, services, and security creates fertile ground for mobilizing group grievances to violence, especially in areas with weak state capacity or legitimacy or in the context of human rights abuses.

• Inclusion is key to prevention—in institutions, development policies, and provision of security and justice. Preventive action needs to adopt a more people-centered approach that includes mainstreaming citizen engagement in programs.

• The primary responsibility for preventive action rests with states, both through their national policy and their governance of the multilateral system. However, in today’s shifting global landscape, states are often one actor among many. States are increasingly called to work with each other and with other actors to keep their countries on a pathway to peace.

• Development policies and programs must be a core part of preventive efforts. Growth and poverty alleviation are crucial but alone will not suffice to sustain peace. Preventing violence requires departing from traditional economic and social policies when risks are building up or are high. It also means seeking inclusive solutions through dialogue, adapted macroeconomic policies, institutional reform in core state functions, and redistributive policies.

• To be more effective, new mechanisms need to be established that will allow greater synergy to be achieved much earlier among the various tools and instruments of prevention, in particular, diplomacy and mediation, security, and development.

• Efforts to address the economic, social, and political aspirations of young people are central to prevention and require innovative approaches.

• Societies in which women have more equal access to livelihoods and education are more resilient to violent conflict. Women’s voice and engagement is a core aspect of effective prevention policies and fundamental to sustaining peace at all levels.

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Recent acts of terrorism and the current unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging and insightful essay, Amartya Sen explores ideas around 'organised violence' (such as war, genocide and terrorism) and violence against the individual. Highlighting the inadequacies of some of the widely accepted explanations for violence—including the idea that the world is experiencing a 'clash of civilisations'—Sen makes a plea for a global, multilateral debate on the causes of conflict, and an understanding of the multiple identities of the individuals involved.

The introductory essay draws on the findings of the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding, which was chaired by Sen, and established to promote mutual communication and understanding among all faiths and communities in the Commonwealth. Its timely report, "Civil Paths to Peace", suggests that governments, media and educators—indeed, everyone—must take the time to understand the complexities around violent behaviour and its causes, without prejudging what these might be.

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During the 1990s, nine out of ten of the bloodiest conflicts occurred on the African continent. And despite some 20 peacebuilding operations in Africa in the last 25 years, there is still a significant lack of cohesive strategy to target the key areas in the regeneration of a conflict-ridden country. An Afrocentric perspective is therefore a suitable starting point for research into the possible strategies for post-conflict peacebuilding.

It is clear that a military approach to peace missions needs to include developmental, economic and governance support to ensure lasting stability and human security. Furthermore, an army needs to be equipped and trained for these multiple roles that previously were regarded as secondary functions, but are now priorities in peace mission involvement.

The authors of this book consider the problems around the concept of ‘post-conflict’ and the blurring of military and civilian roles, analysing the UN roles in the DRC and Sierra Leone, as well as the African Union Mission in Burundi. The main context of the book, however, is the South African Army’s strategy, which has been developed with the African Union’s 2006 Post-conflict, Reconstruction and Development Needs Assessment Guide in mind. This book emanates from this plan. It therefore also explores South Africa’s policy imperatives to integrate development projects and peace missions, involving the military as well as civilian organisations.

While this book is not intended as an instruction manual, it hopes to ignite an understanding of the particular processes required to develop a sustainable and cohesive post-conflict peacebuilding strategy within the African environment.

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This book contributes to scholarly debates about what peace is and how it can be studied by developing a novel framework and tools for studying peace as relational. Drawing primarily on peace and conflict research and sociology, it defines relational peace as entailing non-domination, deliberation, and cooperation between actors in a dyad, that the actors recognize and trust each other, and that they conceive their relationship as one between fellows or friends. 

The book provides tools for empirical studies of relational peace and applies the framework in several sites: Cyprus, Cambodia, South Africa, Abkhazia, Transnistria/Russia, Colombia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Myanmar. It shows how the framework can be applied across cases, actors, geographical locations, levels of analysis, types of data, and stages of peace processes. 

The book offers guidance on how to use the framework empirically with a variety of methods. Each case study in the book also makes unique contributions to specific literatures, such as civil–military relations, frozen peacebuilding, nation-building, mediation, arts-based peacebuilding initiatives, post-war elite studies, ideational analysis, and post-Soviet studies and everyday peace. 

The book offers nuanced understandings of peace in particular settings and illustrates the multifaceted nature of peaceful relations. It shows how relationships are formed though repeated interactions, exchanges, and practices. The book also demonstrates that studying how actors understand these relationships is key for analyzing the nature of peace and its dynamic and processual character. 

By depicting relational peace practices, the book expands the field of studying peace beyond the absence of war.

Contents:

Front Matter

Introduction: Conceptualizing and studying relational peace practices

• Ch. 1: Russian ideas of peace and peacekeeping

• Ch. 2: Relational peace among elites in Cambodia? Domination, distrust, and dependency

• Ch. 3: At the end of the rainbow: Intergroup relations in South Africa

• Ch. 4: The shifting sands of relational peace in Cyprus

• Ch. 5: “They treat us like visitors in our own house”: Relational peace and local experiences of the state in Myanmar

• Ch. 6: Colombian civilian and military actors’ perceptions of their relationship in the era following the 2016 peace accord

• Ch. 7: The web of relations shaping the Philippine peace talks

• Ch. 8: Foes to fellows to friends: Performing relational peace through theater in Sri Lanka

• Ch. 9: Relational peace practices moving forward

Index

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While cities often act as the engines of economic growth for developing countries, they are also frequently the site of growing violence, poverty, and inequality. Yet, social theory, largely developed and tested in the Global North, is often inadequate in tackling the realities of life in the dangerous parts of cities in the Global South. Drawing on the findings of an ambitious five-year, 15-project research programme, Social Theories of Urban Violence in the Global South offers a uniquely Southern perspective on the violence–poverty–inequalities dynamics in cities of the Global South.

Through their research, urban violence experts based in low-and middle-income countries demonstrate how “urban violence” means different things to different people in different places. While some researchers adopt or adapt existing theoretical and conceptual frameworks, others develop and test new theories, each interpreting and operationalizing the concept of urban violence in the particular context in which they work. In particular, the book highlights the links between urban violence, poverty, and inequalities based on income, class, gender, and other social cleavages.

Providing important new perspectives from the Global South, this book will be of interest to policymakers, academics, and students with an interest in violence and exclusion in the cities of developing countries. 

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This open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in Africa over the past half century.

The core themes addressed by the contributors include conflict prevention, mediation, and management; post-conflict reconstruction, justice and Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration; the role of women, religion, humanitarianism, grassroots organizations, and early warning systems; and the impact of global, regional, and continental bodies. The book's thematic chapters are complemented by six country/region case studies: The Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan/South Sudan, Mozambique and the Sahel/Mali. Each chapter concludes with a set of key lessons learned that could be used to inform the building of a more sustainable peace in Africa. 

The State of Peacebuilding in Africa was born out of the activities of the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP), a Carnegie-funded, continent-wide network of African organizations that works with the Wilson Center to bring African knowledge and perspectives to U.S., African, and international policy on peacebuilding in Africa. The research for this book was made possible by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

• SEE ALSO:  Rising Powers and Peacebuilding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

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Contents page:

Front Matter

Peacebuilding in Transition

Introduction

• Learning Lessons from Peace Operations in Africa

• The Economics of Peacebuilding: International Organizations for Dealing with Victor and Vanquished

• Religion and Peacebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Field Reflections on Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Social Imperatives of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration

• United Nations Peacekeeping, Human Rights, and the Protection of Civilians

Strategies and Tools

• Sustaining the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda: The Role of UN Peacekeeping in Africa

• Local Peace Committees and Grassroots Peacebuilding in Africa

• Three Decades of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Africa: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead

• The Changing Nature of Elections in Africa: Impact on Peacebuilding

• Contributions of Early Warning to the African Peace and Security Architecture: The Experience of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP)

Regional and International Dimensions of Peacebuilding

• The African Union in Peacebuilding in Africa

• Trends in SADC Mediation and Long-Term Conflict Transformation

• The International Criminal Court’s Impact on Peacebuilding in Africa

• Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding: Incompatible or Complementary?

• Peace Management and Conflict Resolution: A Practitioner’s Perspective

Country Case Studies

• Peacebuilding as State Building? Lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Violence, Peacebuilding, and Elite Bargains in Mozambique Since Independence

• The Dog That Did Not Bark: Why Has Sierra Leone Not Returned to War After Peacekeepers Left?

• Lessons in Failure: Peacebuilding in Sudan/South Sudan

• Such a Long Journey: Peacebuilding After Genocide in Rwanda

• Crisis and Transition in the Sahel

Conclusion

Back Matter

Reviews:

“This edited volume is a bracing read due to its description of the many failings of peacebuilding in Africa, and it offers, if not always systematically, useful thoughts on how peacebuilding might be pointed in a direction that takes account of politics and viability.” --David Harris, International Affairs, Vol. 97 (4), 2021.

"Very few books provide as broad and deep a set of reflections and considerations regarding peacebuilding in Africa, as this volume. The issues and case studies covered here offer much for the future of policymaking in this area." -- David J. Hornsby, Associate Vice President of Teaching and Learning and Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada.

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History indicates that there are powerful routes to liberation from oppression that do not involve violence. Mohandas Gandhi called for a science of nonviolent action, one based on satyagraha, or the “insistence on truth.” As Gandhi understood, nonviolent resistance is not passive, nor is it weak; rather, such action is an exercise of power. Despite the success of Gandhi’s “Quit India” movement, the resources dedicated to the application of rigorous science to nonviolent struggle have been vanishingly small. By contrast, almost unimaginable levels of financial and human resources have been devoted to the science and technologies of killing, war, and collective violence. Mark Mattaini reviews the history and theory of nonviolent struggles against oppression and discusses recent research that indicates the substantial need for and advantage of nonviolent alternatives. He then offers a detailed exploration of principles of behavioral systems science that appear to underlie effective strategic civil resistance and “people power.”

Strategic Nonviolent Power proposes that the route to what Gandhi described as the “undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries” of nonviolent resistance is the application of rigorous science. Although not a simple science, Mattaini’s application of ecological science grounded in the science of behaviour brings exceptional power to the struggle for justice and liberation. At a time when civil resistance is actively reshaping global political realities, the science of nonviolent struggle deserves the attention of the scientific, activist, strategic, military, spiritual, and diplomatic communities, as well as the informed public.

Contents page :

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

PART ONE. Understanding Nonviolent Power

• 1. Nonviolent Power

• 2. Strategic Nonviolent Resistance

• 3. Behavioural Science Principles for Nonviolent Strategy

• 4. Behavioural Systems Science and Nonviolent Struggle

• 5. Sustaining Resistance Movements: Solidarity, Discipline, and Courage

• 6. Organization and Leadership in Resistance Movements

PART TWO. Strategic Options

• 7. Constructive Noncooperation

• 8. Nonviolent Persuasion and Protest

• 9. Disruptive Noncooperation

• 10. Resource Disruption and Retaliation

• 11. Toward “Undreamt of” Discoveries

Notes / Bibliography / Index

Reviews :

• "Strategic Nonviolent Power is a unique and important contribution to a field that is flourishing in the current global milieu. Mattaini demonstrates a sweeping knowledge of the field of resistance studies as well as systems theory. I don’t know of another study that does what this one does—apply a new theoretical framework to nonviolent resistance, synthesize existing material, and provide numerous illuminating examples from history—in a single book." --Erica Chenoweth, author of 'Why Civil Resistance Works'.

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Civic space worldwide is shrinking – nowhere is this plainer than in Palestine–Israel.

Suppressing Dissent brings together leading experts of shrinking civic space and transnational repression concerning Palestine–Israel to show how failing to address the phenomenon has impacts in the United States, the Middle East and beyond.

Contents page:

• Introduction: Palestine, Israel, and the Battle for Hearts and Minds – and the Levers of Policy by Zaha Hassan

• Palestinian Civil Society in the Shadow of a One-State Reality: Managing the Terms of Subjugation After the Oslo Accords … Resentfully and Ineffectively by Nathan J. Brown

• The Oslo Framework and Palestinian Authoritarianism by Dana El Kurd

• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Impact of Israel’s Occupation and Palestinian Authoritarianism on Community Organizing and NGOs by Zaha Hassan and Layla Gantus

• The Rise, Weakening, and Resurgence of Civil Society in Israel by Dahlia Scheindlin

• Neo-Kahanism: The Growing Influence of a Violent, Jewish Supremacist Ideology by Jessica Buxbaum and Katherine Wilkens

• US Counterterrorism Law and Policy: Its Role in Shutting Down Palestinian Activism and Agency by Nour Soubani and Diala Shamas

• Israeli Mechanisms to Restrict Civic Space: From Surveillance and Repression in the Occupied West Bank to Policing Israelis Writ Large by Yael Berda

• Made in Palestine: Repackaging Apartheid as “Smart” Cities by Matt Mahmoudi

• Digital Repression: How Palestinian Voices are Censored, Surveilled, and Threatened Online by Marwa Fatafta

• The How-to of Shutting Down Pro-Palestinian Speech and Protest in the US by Lara Friedman

• Restrictions on Financial Services and Banking and their Impacts on Palestinian NGOs by Ashleigh Subramanian-Montgomery and Paul Carroll

• Closing Spaces Beyond Borders: Israel’s Transnational Repression Network by Yousef Munayyer

• From Exclusion to Erasure: The Attempt to Silence Arab Americans on Palestine by Maya Berry

• Shrinking Civic Space in the Arab World and its Relationship to Palestine/Israel by Marwan Muasher and Rafiah Al Talei

• Conclusion: Rules, Dissent, and National Security by H.A. Hellyer

Reviews:

“An urgent and compelling read, this collection of essays dismantles the false promise that repression can ever guarantee safety. A must-read that envisions a future grounded in the self-determination and human rights of both Palestinians and Israelis.” — Tess McEnery, Executive Director, Middle East Democracy Center, former director for Democracy and Human Rights at the White House National Security Council

"Democracy is under threat around the world, as illiberal governments cooperate to develop and refine their tools of repression. This incredibly timely book sounds the alarm about efforts by the Israeli government to export its repression of Palestinian rights to the United States, with implications for political dissent and activism globally. Anyone who cares about the future of democracy should pay attention." — Matt Duss, Executive Vice President, Center for International Policy, former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders

"Repressing speech is never the end of a problem, but rather the beginning of a bigger one. This volume clearly shows that creation of a bigger problem for Israel and Palestine, a region desperately in need of dialogue not imposed silence. Suppressing Dissent fills a gap in the policy community’s understanding of how shutting down discussion only fuels anger, limits cooperation, and undermines possibilities for peace." — Sarah Yager, Washington Director, Human Rights Watch

"This comprehensive collection unpacks how policy on an issue ever more central to US and global security has often been precooked by the delimiting and even criminalization of open discourse and debate. For anyone trying to figure out the appalling policy outcomes and American complicity in war crimes, this collection is a good place to start." — Daniel Levy, President, U.S. / Middle East Project, former Israeli negotiator under prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak

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Historically, countering terrorism has been something that security services have carried out on behalf of the state, without community consultation or consent. Since 9/11 however, this tradition has increasingly been questioned and the idea that communities have the potential to defeat al Qaeda - related or influenced terrorism has gained ascendency across policy, security and other contexts.

Based on research in the US, Britain and Northern Ireland, this book examines the involvement of Muslim and other communities in terror crime prevention work, exploring the complexities of community involvement as well as its advantages and examining how trusting relationships between police, security services and communities can be built.

Contents page:

 Acknowledgements

Preface

Ch. 1. Terror Crime Prevention with Communities : Trust, Community and Counter-Terrorism; an Introduction

Ch. 2. Credibility in Counter-Terrorism Practice

Ch. 3. Community Policing within a Counter-Terrorism Context : Understanding Police and Community Engagement

Ch. 4. Citizenship, Responsibilisation and Trust in Counter-Terrorism

Ch. 5. Police and Community Engagement and Partnerships for Counter-Terrorism

Ch. 6. Understanding Emotions in Counter-Terrorism Practice

Ch. 7. Governing Terror; ‘Top-down’ and ‘Bottom-up’ Approaches to Counter-Terrorism

Ch. 8. Conclusion : Engaging Communities for Twenty-First-Century Security

Index

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