Postgraduate Module Descriptor

POLM091: The Politics of Nonviolence

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

1. Nonviolence: an historical overview

2. What is nonviolence? Principled and Pragmatic approaches

3. Nonviolence and Strategy

4. Overthrowing dictators with nonviolence

5. Nonviolence as way of resolving conflicts

6. Nonviolence as tool to ‘Democratize Democracy’: protest and compliance

7. Nonviolence as tool to ‘Democratize Democracy’: fighting corruption

8. Nonviolence in the institutions: political parties and policy change

9. Civilian defence and bottom-up anti-terrorism

10. Can nonviolence work in global politics? Evidence from the European Union

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22	278	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled learning and teaching activities	22	Seminars will provide key themes
Guided independent study	150	Reading and preparation for seminar discussion and presentations
Guided independent study	128	Research and writing of essays

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/

http://www.aeinstein.org/

www.unpo.org

http://wagingnonviolence.org/

www.npwj.org/

www.justvision.org/encounterpoint

http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/special/cwlMR.php