SOCY 4115/INVS 4914 Course Leader: Paul Wehr Democracy/Nonviolent Social Movements Office: Ketchum 214, W10-12, 492-2623 Spring 1999 HomePage Peace and social justice are created through active nonviolence. Learning Resources Texts: Cooney & Michalowski, Power of the People Bondurant, Conquest of Violence HomePage On-line Readings Intactractable Conflict Guide Websites Conflict Research Consortium Peace and Conflict Studies Select Films DATE TOPIC READINGS 1/12 Strategy Bondurant, III 1/14 Ackerman/Kruegler 1/19 Belief Bondurant I, II 1/21 1/26 Disobedience Wehr, "Rocky Flats." 1/28 Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience." 2/2 Participation Lynd, "Letters from Prison." 2/4 2/9 Conflict Bondurant, VI 2/11 Wehr, "Gandhian Style." 2/16 Power Branch, "Parting the Waters." 2/18 Wehr, "Nonviolence/Equal Rights." 2/23 Intervention Wehr, "Citizen Intervenor." 2/25 Strategy Paper I Due 3/2 Equivalence Patfoort, "Uprooting Violence." 3/4 Wehr, "History/Nonviolence." 3/9 Disruption Tolstoy/Conscientious Objection 3/11 3/16 Non-cooperation 3/18 3/30 Temptation 4/1 4/6 Subversion 4/8 Strategy Paper II Due 4/13 Survival 4/15 4/20 Life 4/22 4/27 Pathways 4/29 (Course Evaluation) 5/10 Final Exam (Monday 3:30) Strategy Papers You select a living social movement whose primary goal is to make a society more democratic, just and humane. It might be the very one you are working with at present. Learn how nonviolent action has influenced the movement's development and success. Strategy Paper I (4-5 double-spaced pages) analyzes how the movement has used nonviolence in the past. Strategy Paper II (5-6 pages) suggests how it could use it in the future. The better papers will show liberal use of concepts from the readings. Course Grade Strategy Paper I (30%); Strategy Paper II (40%); Participation (30%)