Organizing Global Nonviolence: The Growth and Spread of Nonviolent INGOS, 1948–2003

Gallo-Cruz, Selina

doi:10.1108/s0163-786x(2012)0000034012

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“…Leveraging our new data set on organizational use of nonviolent tactics, we can address this question in ways not possible before. Although research into the diffusion of nonviolent tactics to other countries or other movements has progressed (Chabot ; Gallo‐Cruz ; Gleditsch and Rivera ; Isaac et al. ), the field still lacks a framework for understanding how the tactical choices by one organization affect choices of other organizations.…”

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Strategies of Resistance: Diversification and Diffusion

Cunningham

Dahl

Frugé

2017

American J Political Sci

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Why do organizations choose to use nonviolence? Why do they choose specific nonviolent tactics? Existing quantitative work centers on mass nonviolent campaign, but much of the nonviolence employed in contentious politics is smaller-scale nonviolent direct action. In this article, we explore the determinants of nonviolence with new data at the organization level in self-determination disputes from 1960 to 2005. We present a novel argument about the interdependence of tactical choices among nonviolent options in self-determination movements. Given limitations on their capabilities, competition among organizations in a shared movement, and different resource requirements for nonviolent strategies, we show that organizations have incentives to diversify tactics rather than just copy other organizations. The empirical analysis reveals a rich picture of varied organizational resistance choices, and a complex web of interdependence among tactics.

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Strategies of Resistance: Diversification and Diffusion

Cunningham

Dahl

Frugé

2017

American J Political Sci

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“…This global dimension of repertoire growth works on two levels: (1) as an effect of the global integration of states – as governments become more embedded in international networks; and (2) as an effect of the expansion of global civil society networks, as resisters increasingly mobilize nonviolently to demand change. The global organizational investment in spreading nonviolence has quadrupled since the late 1970s (Gallo-Cruz, 2012), and so too has the incidence of major nonviolent movements grown. Because this ‘third force’ of global civil society (Florini, 2000) is developing its emerging role in world affairs for peace (Dar, 2015) and civil resistance is shifting the authoritative approach to social problems through global–local interfaces (Gallo-Cruz, 2016a), the ways in which global civil society connections shape the choice of nonviolent over violent contention also merits closer scrutiny.…”

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Nonviolence beyond the state: International NGOs and local nonviolent mobilization

Gallo-Cruz

2019

International Sociology

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Studies of nonviolence have taught us much about what makes nonviolence successful, emphasizing the importance of local circumstance and strategy. Little attention has been given to the effect of ties with international organizations on nonviolence: that is, how the embeddedness of local actors in global networks shapes nonviolent mobilization. In this article, a world society framework is applied with the objective of understanding the transnational factors shaping local nonviolent mobilization. Through global and historical models exploring political, economic, and cultural factors, it is found that: first, the global integration and structure of the nation-state is an important and significant factor in shaping the emergence of nonviolent movements; second, integration into global civil society networks significantly increases the likelihood for large-scale nonviolent resistance; and third, ties to a specialized network of nonviolent organizations significantly shape the path toward nonviolence over violent means of resistance.

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“…They are "brokers" for the flow of norms and resources from more democratic states to less democratic states (Schmitz 2004;Tarrow 2005, 190-194). TSMO members can benefit not only materially but also from specialized training in strategies of resistance (Gallo-Cruz, 2012). Thus, TSMO participation equips and motivates local members to advocate for change in their country.…”

Section: How Transnational Social Movement Organizations Promote Democratic Diffusionmentioning

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Activists Against Autocrats: TSMO Networks and Democratic Diffusion

Pinckney

Chin

2021

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Do transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) promote the international diffusion of democracy? If so, how? Scholars of democratization have studied a plethora of international factors in the spread of democracy, including geographic or regional proximity, colonial history, trade and alliance networks, and joint inter-governmental organization (IGO) memberships. Few have studied the role of TSMO networks in democratic diffusion. We theorize that TSMOs empower and connect civil societies and thus promote democracy from the “bottom up.” Leveraging a new TSMO Dataset and data on the dimensions of democracy from the Varieties of Democracy project over the 1953–2013 period, we find that TSMOs promote democratic diffusion. TSMOs are strongest at diffusing participatory democracy. TSMOs also contribute to the diffusion of electoral democracy but do so by promoting the diffusion of freedom of association and freedom of expression rather than elections.

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Organizing Global Nonviolence: The Growth and Spread of Nonviolent INGOS, 1948–2003

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

Strategies of Resistance: Diversification and Diffusion

Strategies of Resistance: Diversification and Diffusion

Nonviolence beyond the state: International NGOs and local nonviolent mobilization

Activists Against Autocrats: TSMO Networks and Democratic Diffusion

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