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While Abner Doubleday is remembered primarily, and mistakenly, for having "invented" baseball (he did not), it was his selfless exercise of duty to his nation that should be honored. Following his youth in Auburn, New York, and his days as a cadet at West Point to the Union general's involvement in the American Civil War and his public service afterwards, he is revealed in this biography as a man who took unpopular stands but was guided by a firm vision of justice. One chapter fully explores the baseball myth

This special issue of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change analyzes examples of nonviolent resistance from across the globe. It covers how regime changes, political movements and nonviolent unrest develop and then shape the political decisions of both civil society and the state. Section one is focused on the strategic interactions between nonviolent movements and the state. This includes discussions on the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland, youth movements in Post-Communist states and nonviolent Islamic movements in Turkey. The second and third sections examine regime conflicts and the global diffusion of nonviolent movements. Here chapters center on the Iranian Revolution, social psychological approaches to nonviolent civil resistance, the Palestinian human rights movements, the efforts of nonviolent INGOs and the Nashville civil rights movement. This volume is essential reading because it introduces new analytical concepts and theoretical frameworks for understanding nonviolent resistance, merging social movement scholarship with nonviolent studies in fresh and exciting ways.

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"The civil wars that brought down the Roman Republic were fought on more than battlefields. Armed gangs infested the Italian countryside, in the city of Rome mansions were besieged, and bounty-hunters searched the streets for 'public enemies.' Among the astonishing stories to survive from these years is that of a young woman whose parents were killed, on the eve of her wedding, in the violence engulfing Italy. While her future husband fought overseas, she staved off a run on her father's estate. Despite an acute currency shortage, she raised money to help her fiancé in exile. And when several years later, her husband, back in Rome, was declared an outlaw, she successfully hid him, worked for his pardon, and joined other Roman women in staging a public protest. The wife's tale is known only because her husband had inscribed on large slabs of marble the elaborate eulogy he gave at her funeral. Though no name is given on the inscriptions, starting as early as the seventeenth century, scholars saw similarities between the contents of the inscription and the story, preserved in literary sources, of one Turia, the wife of Quintus Lucretius. Although the identification remains uncertain, and in spite of the other substantial gaps in the text of the speech, the 'Funeral Speech for Turia' (Laudatio Turiae), as it is still conventionally called, offers an extraordinary window into the life of a high-ranking woman at a critical moment of Roman history. In this book Josiah Osgood reconstructs the wife's life more fully than it has been before by bringing in alongside the eulogy stories of other Roman women who also contributed to their families' survival while working to end civil war. He shows too how Turia's story sheds rare light on the more hidden problems of everyday life for Romans, including a high number of childless marriages. Written with a general audience in mind, Turia : A Roman Woman's Civil War will appeal to those interested in Roman history as well as war, and the ways that war upsets society's power structures. Not only does the study come to terms with the distinctive experience of a larger group of Roman women, including the prudence they had to show to succeed, but also introduces readers to an extraordinary tribute to married love which, though from another world, speaks to us today"--

Contemporary societies face a range of challenges, including: climate change; poverty; wealth, income, and other forms of social inequality; human rights abuses; misinformation and fake news; the growth of populist movements; and citizen disenchantment with democratic politics. Citizenship education, properly conceived, seeks to address issues of general concern through both individual and collective action. A key aim is to enhance citizens' levels of political knowledge and understanding, and to educate citizens as actors in civil society so as to promote critical and active citizenship, with citizens able to develop their capacities to engage in civic and political activities to bring about social changes they wish to see. This Special Issue on 'Citizenship Education and Civil Society' will explore how current forms of citizenship education in different societies, in both formal and informal educational contexts, are, or are not, contributing positively to citizens' levels of political knowledge, understanding, and efficacy. It is concerned with questions such as: What role can and should citizenship education play in pluralistic, liberal democratic societies? Can it successfully promote common values and overcome intolerance and discrimination? What are its strengths and limitations in practice? The Special Issue welcomes theoretical and empirical contributions from a range of disciplinary perspectives that address these, and other pertinent, questions, and that draw on evidence and examples from subnational, national, international, or comparative contexts. Contributions are welcome from scholars, practitioners, and activists across a variety of settings.

Bengale : guerre civile ou décolonisation ? par Philippe Devillers
Le conflit qui ravage le Bengale oriental doit être analysé dans le cadre des diverses "contradictions" qui le dominent et qui se situent à trois niveaux. Le premier est celui du clivage entre Hindous et Musulmans. La volonté des Musulmans d'échapper par la sécession à la loi d'une majorité inévitablement hindoue fut à l'origine du Pakistan et contribua largement à en maintenir la cohésion pendant quelques années. Au second niveau de "contradictions" s'opposent les deux parties du Pakistan. Les relations entre elles, devenues difficiles dès 1951, se sont peu à peu détériorées jusqu'à parvenir en 1971 au point de rupture. Il ne s'agit plus désormais d'une "guerre civile" mais d'une "lutte de libération" ou d'une "décolonisation". Le troisième niveau est celui où la situation au Bengale affecte les relations des puissances extérieures entre elles (Inde, Pakistan et Chine, mais aussi Union soviétique et Etats-Unis). Quoique distincts, ces trois niveaux sont étroitement liés entre eux et réagissent sans cesse l'un sur l'autre, ce qui réduit considérablement la marge de maneouvre des divers protagonistes. L'autonomie du Bengale oriental peut-elle aller jusqu'à remettre en cause (même potentiellement) d'une part le partage fondamental dont est né le Pakistan, d'autre part l'équilibre des forces dans le subcontinent, équilibre que pour des raisons différentes, la Chine, l'U.R.S.S. et les Etats-Unis ont encore intérêt à préserver ?
[Revue française de science politique XXI (4), août 1971, pp 859-880]

During Jakarta flood from 2013 to 2015, emergency response optimized roles of military and civil. Civil-military coordination is a mechanism in disaster management in term of accelerating response and minimizing number of victim and damage as well. The aim of this study is to analyze and describe the system of coordination and civil-military cooperation in emergency response Jakarta flood from 2013 to 2015 and find optimal form of cooperation and coordination emergency response of civil-military in the Jakarta flood 2013. This qualitative research is a descriptive research with data collection techniques is literature review and in-depth interviews. The results showed that the civil-military coordination in the flood disaster can be run either although the difference between commando and grammar used in the civil-military provide constraints in emergency operations.

Este artículo trata de ordenar e ilustrar las ideas de A. de Tocqueville sobre el papel de la religión en la sociedad democrática. Entre ellas, se destaca la que sostiene que el cultivo tolerante y desdogmatizado de la religión ejerce, desde el espacio de la sociedad civil, un influjo beneficioso sobre el espíritu de la libertad democrática ; This article tries to organize and ilustrate Tocqueville's ideas about the role that religion plays in a democratic society. Among these ideas the one that promotes a tolerant and non-dogmatic cultivation of religion is the most outstanding. According to it religion has through civil society a positive influence on the spirit of democratic freedom

The article discusses the results of research on the functioning of judicial mediation in civil cases. The effectiveness of mediation is assessed on the basis of the number of concluded settlements or discontinued proceedings as a result of approval of the settlement concluded before the mediator. In the course of the research, the reasons for too low in relation to the expected popularity of mediation were identified, both among the society and professionals related to mediation. For over a dozen years the provisions on mediation have been in force, it has provided many observations and conclusions regarding their functioning.