The technology of nonviolence

Bock, Joseph G.

The technology of nonviolence social media and violence prevention / [electronic resource] : Joseph G. Bock ; foreword by John Paul Lederach. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012. - xxi, 288 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Towards an applied theory of violence prevention -- Reporting and warning about deadly possibilities -- Organizing against ethnoreligious violence in Ahmedabad -- Overcoming gang violence in Chicago -- Counteracting ethnoreligious violence in Sri Lanka -- Crowdsourcing during post-election violence in Kenya -- Foisting tribal violence in East Africa -- Comparing the approaches -- How to intervene effectively -- What to do when violence prevention is unlikely to work -- Concerns about misallocation of resources -- Future directions and recommendations.


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Nonviolence.
Violence--Prevention.
Social media.


Electronic books.

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