Alexandre Christoyannopoulos

📰Christopher Coyne & Abigail R. Hall Blanco develop an #economic case for practice pacifism, thus connecting applying economic scholarship on political institutions & government failure to pacifism

Includes 1/ essay from me on #Tolstoy’s #politicalthought, 2/ co-authored intro discussing ‘ #religiousness ’ of political #ideologies such as #anarchism

Today is 5th-year🎂 of 3rd volume of Essays on #Anarchism & #Religion co-edited with @msadams.bsky.social: stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e... including essays on #AbrahamHeyn, #HerbertRead, #LeoTolstoy, #DanielGuérin, #MartinBuber, #mysticism & #spiritualanarchism

Today is 1st 🎂 of article published with BJPIR mapping both tensions & overlaps betw #anarchism & #pacifism, including on effectiveness of #nonviolence, questionable compromises, censorship within movements, flirting with #violence, & radicalism: doi.org/10.1177/1369....

📰 Olena Nikolayenko examines interplay between #gender norms & nonviolent/civil resistance in Ukraine's #Euromaidan: how they are contested but also how they constrain patterns of resistance doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰 @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social calls for more focus on pacifist or war #abolitionist campaigns in the debate about autonomous weapons systems (#AWS) & how they are an affront to 'human dignity' doi.org/10.1163/2772...

3rd secularises arguments by applying them against #secular preachers & institutions: reflecting on quality of debate in #publicsphere, #hypocrisy of secular “clerics” vs their practice, & process of #ossification & betrayal befalling secular political #ideals

1st section recounts evolution of T’s views on #religion & #church, & briefly describes T’s peculiar #metaphysics. 2nd outlines main charges against church, discusses common objections, & considers continuing relevance of those anticlerical arguments

Today's the 9th 🎂 of my article on #LeoTolstoy's #anticlericalism, looking at both what he said then and how some of it still applies today. Freely available here: www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/7/...

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#WW2 ended 80 years ago today, but 'warist' orthodoxy is back. Here's my International Affairs piece articulating #pacifist reflections calling for investment in nonviolence (including for defence) rather than redoubled #militarism doi.org/10.1093/ia/i... #armistice #peace #Europe #VEday

Primarily Ruth, with some input from others. And fully agree. Quite moving.

Thanks Moya. Agree entirely. Much too young too.

Sad news about our recently retired colleague: www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/pol...

Looking forward this in a few hours 👉 livestream of #Disasters: Deconstructed about #anarchism with @kschmutina.bsky.social, @vonmeding.bsky.socia & Ruth Kinna, available via livestream on YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/disastersd...

Many Gods, No Masters: a new zine on #anarchism & #sirituality: linktr.ee/anarchistspi...

Today = 8th 🎂 of 1st vol of Essays on #Anarchism & #Religion co-edited with @msadams.bsky.social including chapters by @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social, @egalvanalvarez.bsky.social, @justinmeggitt.bsky.social, & @franziskah.bsky.social: www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e...

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📰Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra & Seema Shekhawat examine #Gandhian ideal of #nonviolence & its intersection with his vision of the nation-state, contrasting his vision of #nationalism with that of Iqbal & Jinnah: doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰 Raquel da Silva & Priya Dixit compare neoliberal #care practices with Black #feminist, #abolitionist, #Indigenous, & #anarchist alternatives to demonstrate how the latter counter structural violence: doi.org/10.1163/2772... #intersectionality

Today = 7th 🎂 of publication of #Anarchisme et #religion (co-authored with Lara Apps) with Atelier de création libertaire: atelierdecreationlibertaire.com/Anarchisme-e..., French translation of drive.google.com/file/d/0B4_f...

📢Looking fwd to presenting (tomorrow) on "the question of #pacifism at a time of war in #Ukraine" at "Colloque - 1945-2025 - 80e anniversaire de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et du retour à la paix" which started today: cyagora.cyu.fr/version-fran...

Andrew Fiala provides a summary of his recently published article on #ontology of #pacifism in this blog post: pacifismandnonviolence.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/o...

📢Looking fwd to 2nd of 2 panels on #anarchism & #pacifism this morning at my first #ESSHC conference @ESSHC25 starting in a few mins, & presenting tentative typology of anarcho-pacifist currents: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en/esshc-con...

Today = 2nd 🎂 of opening editorial for JPN where I reflect on why "#pacifism *and* #nonviolence" (as well as their definitions, differences, & shared territories) & then delineate the research agenda/questions JPN intends to nurture: doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰 Yahya Alshamy, Nathan Goodman & Mikayla Novak build on Elinor & Vincent #Ostrom to argue #peace can be #polycentric & thus not depend on a centralised #state: doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰Andrew Fiala identifies & discusses 3 commitments in the #ontology of #pacifism: 1/ peace is a positive reality, 2/ interdependence & interrelationship are fundamental, 3/ the entities of social & political life are socially constructed: doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰Mujahid Osman & Rashied Omar analyse Islamic peace praxis of Rabia Terri Harris, founder of #MuslimPeaceFellowship, showing it an alternative to dominant forms of #Sufism in modern period & a productive basis for a theology of #justpeace: doi.org/10.1163/2772...

📰Silviya Lechner revisits the problem of seeking peace in #Hobbes’s moral & political theory, thus complicating common readings of #Leviathan: doi.org/10.1163/2772...