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This book makes an important contribution to the conflict literature and to new ways of thinking about agency and social life in fragile contexts. It does this by engaging with often ignored peace infrastructures. In this book, the contributors highlight different ways in which non-violence is deployed by Africas youth to navigate difficult violent contexts. Drawing on empirically grounded case studies from the Central African Republic to Zimbabwe, this book explores how similar (or indeed the same) social infrastructures can be deployed for both violence and non-violence and the important factors that drive many youth to take the non[1]violence option even when order appears to collapse around them. The authors also explore how, for instance, systems of organizing survive violent disruptions to the so-called rhythms of everyday life, and, when they do, how they are then repurposed by youth to help them survive violence. Akin Iwilade is a Lecturer in African Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and conducts research on the anthropology of youth and gangs in Africa. Tarila Marclint Ebiede is a Political Scientist. He is co-founder of Conflict Research Network West Africa. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Kents Brussels School of International Studies and the Brussels School of Governance, both in Belgium.

L'auteur confronte à la réalité actuelle de la guerre en Ukraine les trois principales méthodes non-violentes : la résistance civile non-violente, effectivement pratiquée dès mars 2022, mais peu considérée voire invisibilisée ; l'intervention civile de paix mise en place progressivement et opérationnelle depuis le début 2023 avec un potentiel important ; et enfin la défense civile non-violente dont la faisabilité est encore lointaine. L'auteur en tire quelques enseignements pour le futur et un plaidoyer pour relancer les recherches sur la défense non-violente.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Preface -- 1 Understanding and Measuring Nonviolence -- On the implications of studying nonviolence and violence together -- Nonviolence and violence as passions -- Nonviolence in academic psychology -- Nonviolence: Its nature and definition -- Nonviolence: A psychological perspective -- Nonviolence and prospect theory -- Measurement of nonviolence -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Appendix: The noviolence test (NVT) -- The NVT code sheet -- 2 Human Aggression -- The complex nature of human aggression -- Types of aggression -- Theories of aggression -- Measurement of aggression -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- 3 Cognition and Self-control: The Engine and Brakes of Nonviolence -- Information-processing approach to study cognition -- On nonviolent cultures: Nonviolence as normative and internalized -- Social identity theory (SIT): Tracking the social side of the cognition of nonviolence -- Attributions and nonviolence -- Self-control: The brakes of nonviolence -- Moral dimension of nonviolence -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- 4 Motivation: The Fuel of Nonviolence -- Self-interest -- Power orientation and nonviolence -- Mutualism versus adversarialism: The vulnerability of being too psychological or sociological -- Moral exclusion: Us-them dichotomy -- Positive nonviolence in positive psychology: Exploring human strengths in nonviolence -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- 5 The Nonviolent Individuals: Who Are They Like? -- The nonviolent heroes: A psychological perspective -- Resiliency: The ordinary magic of nonviolent individuals -- Generativity -- Ripeness -- Psychology of wisdom -- Anasakti -- Components of the nonviolent personality -- On violent behavior of nonviolent individuals and vice versa -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- 6 Conflict Resolution -- Levels of conflicts.