Nonviolent Encounters: Unarmed Civilian Protection Through Bodies, Spaces and Times (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399548823)

This book takes the emerging practice of Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) as a case study of nonviolence to interrogate the roles of violence and nonviolence in conflict knowledge production. By focusing on nonviolent actors using UCP, it decentres violence, which is often so prominent in peace research. This approach creates space to fundamentally reimagine how the world might be when imagined and enacted through nonviolence.

Drawing together feminist theorising from critical military studies, peace and conflict studies and international relations, Nonviolent Encounters argues that decentring violence in conflict knowledge production upsets the simple binaries of protector/protected and war/peace, underpinned by the 'one-world' onto-epistemology of much Western conflict knowledge. Instead, space is created to reconsider nonviolence, not as the binary opposite of violence, but as a way of knowing, doing and being - as a way of producing alternative ontological worlds.

Author: Louise Ridden
ISBN-10: 1399548824
ISBN-13: 9781399548823
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2026
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d