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This paper discusses a case of conflict management in the WSF 2004. The reasons for the explosion of the conflict are briefly discussed & linked to the lack of clear & consistent proactive practices of inclusion in the organizational process of the WSF. The discussion focuses on the attempts to negotiate the conflict generated by the claims voiced by Ahmed (a member of the Indian Muslim community), who deprecates the exclusion from the organizational process of the WSF of which he feels he & his community are victims. The paper shows how such conflicts could be prevented by designing carefully at the outset consistent strategies of outreach & by performing regular practices of inclusion. The core of the argument focuses on the strategies of conflict management in the case of the incident described. The shortcomings of those practices are exposed & discussed. The research shows how the main deficiencies of the conflict management strategies discussed are due to contingent improvisation & to the lack of consistent & thoroughly discussed guidelines in conflict management & communicative strategies in moments of crisis. 8 References. Adapted from the source document.

A four-column table juxtaposes the constitutional reforms, executive initiatives, agreements, observations of Mexico's 1996 San Andres Accords, & negotiations between the federal government & the Zapatista Army for National Liberation. Reforms, initiatives, & agreements focus on increasing rights, representation, & participation for Mexico's indigenous population. The observations note the development & interplay of the constitutional adjustments & executive action. Though the agreements were reached, the government refused to implement them after 1996. D. Bajo

Discusses the success of the 1995 Million Man March led by the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan in bringing together one million black men, & its failure to address the critical issues threatening the black community such as wage inequality, black prison population, & economic, social, & political injustice of capitalism. While the march is lauded for igniting a positive emotion in black men, Farrakhan's version of black nationalism & separatism & the demeaning manner in which women were excluded from participating are criticized. The drift of traditional civil rights organizations from the black lower class & Farrakhan's ability to fill this void is discussed. M. Greenberg

The internationalist and dependent model of development that emerged in Brazil under military tutelage after 1964 was not without its opponents, even within the Brazilian officer corps itself. This paper examines the character of the ideological opposition of several prominent authoritarian nationalist officers during the dictatorship

Unraveling the Garment Industry investigates the politics of labor and protest within the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movementsagainst GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York CityEthel C. Brooks examines how transnational consumer protest campaigns effect change, sometimes with unplanned penalties for those they intend to protect.

In this paper, I explore public performances in protest as a form of civic participation, especially for performances that aim to challenge and critique two controversial laws in Hong Kong, the Anthem Law and the Anti-Extradition Law. I focus on how arguments presented in the protest are performed in public, particularly on how participants make use of their voices and bodies in improvised and choreographed ways. I focus on two examples. The first is a series of "flash mob" events organized by the pro-democracy political party, Demosistō, who performed and parodied the national anthem, "March of the Volunteers". The second example is a public assembly during the Anti-Extradition Law movement, where protestors used laser pointers to transform a protest space into a disco-like dance floor. I read these cases in dialogue with scholarship on performativity by Judith Butler, Richard Schechner, Jorge Cadena-Roa and Cristina Puga. I focus on how protestors navigate identity through performing with music in public space, where civic engagement manifests as bodily movements, sound and voices.

This year-long participant observation qualitative case study draws together five social practices of mid-career elementary school educators in the Mexican southeastern state of Oaxaca: a protest march, a roadblock, the use of humor, a school-based book fair and alternate uses of time and space in school. The title terms of charros, tlacuaches and mapaches represent some of the diverse sites of friction where teachers interact. Additionally, movements of diverse inquiries is derived from the definition Michel Foucault gives to "critical" which leads to the primary guiding question: how have Oaxacan teachers engaged in critical pedagogical practices? The study finds that contemporary commonsense dimensions of critical pedagogy which involve developing teacher awareness toward relations of power and facilitating direct interventions in community realities of inequity have proven insufficient for teachers and others engaged in a multi-sited, decades-long protest movement. The five social practices showcased here demonstrate ways teachers navigate in and out of the State Secretariat of Education and the radical union, illustrating that the messy life of teaching is complex. The practices show how activities often disassociated with pedagogy and political projects: eating, drinking, gossiping, play, all help teachers and other school-based actors enact and sustain their critical projects.

The Green Movement in Germany is widely regarded as one of the most powerful expressions of popular opposition to government policies. A broad analysis of this powerful group is made in this book, showing that the origins of the movement relate to the general protests against industrialisation in the nineteenth century and also to more recent forms of protest. The author assesses the challenge posed by the Green Movement to established groups and organisations both in proposing alternative policies and in a long run of electoral successes. The Green Movement has evidently had a great impact on.

We propose an explanatory framework for the comparative study of radicalization that focuses on its "how" and "when" questions. We build on the relational tradition in the study of social movements and contentious politics by expanding on a mechanism-process research strategy. Attentive to similarities as well as to dissimilarities, our comparative framework traces processes of radicalization by delineating four key arenas of interaction -- between movement and political environment, among movement actors, between movement activists and state security forces, and between the movement and a countermovement. Then, we analyze how four similar corresponding general mechanisms -- opportunity/threat spirals, competition for power, outbidding, and object shift -- combine differently to drive the process. Last, we identify a set of submechanisms for each general mechanism. The explanatory utility of our framework is demonstrated through the analysis of three ethnonational episodes of radicalization: the enosis-EOKA movement in Cyprus (1950-1959), the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland (1969-1972), and the Fatah-Tanzim in Palestine (1995-2001). Adapted from the source document.

This article discusses the change in collective identity and political vision introduced by anti-austerity movements in Southern Europe in comparison with previous protest movements, and in particular the anti-globalisation movement and autonomist and anarchist activism. It focuses on the emergence of a discourse of citizenship that lies at the core of the new protest wave. It raises questions about the meaning of this "citizenism" and how it reflects contemporary conflicts and the dilemmas of post-crisis society. The analysis draws from analysis of movement documents, including manifestoes of protest organisations as Democracia Real Ya in Spain, and Real Democracy Now in Greece, and interviews with 40 protest organisers and participants from the Indignados movement and the Aganaktismenoi movement. I argue that references to citizenship reflect the anti-oligarchic framing of the 2011 anti-austerity protest wave and the view of citizenship as a right to political participation of "the many" against "the few", which has been eroded under neoliberalism, and needs to be urgently regained to confront enemies shared in common by disparate social categories. This shift points to a break from the anti-statist attitude of autonomous and anarchism activism, and proposes the vision of a bottom-up reclaiming of state institutions by ordinary citizens, as the means to harness collective power to address growing social inequality. This turn highlights the pragmatic character of contemporary movements, it helps to understand why from the anti-austerity movements of 2011 new Left party surges, as Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece have emerged, and highlights the new opportunities of structural change and the dangers of assimilation that confront anti-austerity movements.