Resistance to ethnopolitical violence spans political, legal, and armed actions.

Evidence

Individuals who resist ethnopolitical violence do so in many different ways, including political and/or legal action, propaganda, armed force, covert sabo­ tage, or the rescuing of intended victims of violence. We shall refer to all these actions as resistance, and to all who participated as resisters. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 473

Categorization

  • DEFINE: The authors operationalize ‘resistance’ to include legal action, propaganda, armed force, sabotage, and rescue, and ‘resisters’ as all who participated.
  • XREF: connects to: Everyday domestic objects become weapons when oppression drives people to resistance — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 425

Broader Connections