📰Caroline Kennedy-Pipe argues that, over time & in light of the evolution major international conflicts, Nicholas #Rengger developed an increasingly pacifist sensibility:
doi.org/10.1163/2772...
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📰Caroline Kennedy-Pipe argues that, over time & in light of the evolution major international conflicts, Nicholas #Rengger developed an increasingly pacifist sensibility:
doi.org/10.1163/2772...
3/ Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.
06.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 02/ Then articulates 5 main an-pac contributions on: #fetishization of #violence; chronic sliding towards systemic #militarism; intersectional state-enforced #exploitation/#domination; structurings of international politics (current & potential); & questions of #politicalagency.
06.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Short thread summary: 1/ Paper seeks to articulate overdue #anarchopacifist lens to #IR #theory. Explicitly #critical & #normative. Starts with brief #history of cross-pollination between #anarchism & #pacifism.
06.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This Saturday was 3rd 🎂 of my article in International Studies Quarterly presenting an #anarcho-#pacifist reading of #IR (freely available via #openaccess): doi.org/10.1093/isq/...
06.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0📢Call for Papers for free #Pacifism & #Nonviolence workshop (to be held in April 2026). Deadline 5 Nov. Full info in PDF in CfP tab here: brill.com/view/journal.... Please circulate widely.
03.10.2025 10:24 — 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Not your typical research seminar...
Earlier this week, Orit Shimoni (@oritshimoni.bsky.social) and Dan Bern discussed the potential for music and art to foster cross-cultural solidarity with the Pacifism and Nonviolence Research Group, complete with live performances.
📅Today, international day of #nonviolence, why not check out our pages: brill.com/view/journal...? You'll find work on economics, Islam, historiography, unarmed civilian protection, Gandhi, King, BLM, sabotage, AWS, gender, structural & police violence, etc. Follow us for more!
02.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Today = 7th🎂of 2nd vol of Essays on #Anarchism & #Religion co-edited with @msadams.bsky.social incl chaps on #YiddishRadicalism, #ByzantineTheology, #Spanishanarchistfilms, #FirstPeter, #Nietzsche & #Benjamin, #ChristianNonviolence, #Blake & #Occult
www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/books/e/10.1...
📢JPN 3:2 now out. SI on #Economics of Politics & Nonviolence guest edited by Christopher Coyne. Includes articles on practical #pacifism, #nonviolent action, polycentric #peace, female property rights, & 1849 Paris Peace Congress. brill.com/view/journal...
24.09.2025 14:14 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0📰 @jasonleebyas.bsky.social brings economic insights to @chenoweth.bsky.social & @mariajstephan.bsky.social to argue violent resistance common despite nonV more effective due to costliness of participation in violence, which makes its preparation a signal 4 mvmt’s seriousness doi.org/10.1163/2772...
22.09.2025 17:36 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0🗣️ Looking fwd to presenting on #pacifist rejoinders to #Hitler question #CRS2025 conference
19.09.2025 12:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🎙A few days ago I was interviewed Mary Youssef about hashtag#Christian hashtag#anarchism (interview proper starts from 3:35 after some technical difficulties :)) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I00K...
18.09.2025 10:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's another successful year for IRPH in the Guardian University Guide. Loughborough lands sixth for International Relations, ninth for Politics, and eleventh for History.
16.09.2025 18:30 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0📰Ravi d'annoncer la parution d' "Une critique de l’orthodoxie guerrière : Réflexions #pacifistes sur la guerre en #Ukraine" (version traduite et un peu abrégée de doi.org/10.1093/ia/i... ): www.pressenza.com/fr/2025/09/u...
15.09.2025 09:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📰Andrew Fitz-Gibbon examines ethical foundations of #violence & #nonviolence through lens of Pragmatic Ethical Principlism & grounded in cross-cultural ethical traditions, arguing nonviolence is ethically superior by systematically applying 7 core ethical principles
12.09.2025 14:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0We are extremely proud to share that Dr Joe Davidson, Vice-Chancellor's Independent Research Fellow here in IRPH, has won the @biapt.bsky.social Early Career Prize for his groundbreaking research and his contributions to the discipline of political theory.
Great job, Joe; well deserved!
Hardback expensive, paperback and ebook cheaper, but also shorter chapter-length summary #free ( #openaccess) & available here:
www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/chapter...
Core chapters explore T’s #pacifism, #anarchism,
#anticlericalism, #asceticism & #nonviolent #activism. Each time first systematising T (with plenty of poignant quotes), then discussing criticisms of his views, then reflecting on relevance since.
Today is #Tolstoy's birthday. His #politicalthought is radical, #anarcho-#pacifist & #iconoclastic. Here's my book on it: sites.google.com/site/christo....
09.09.2025 10:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Interview de 16mins sur mon intervention à l' #UEMSS, à partir de 1h23min42secs sur l'émission Achaïra du 1er septembre): www.lacledesondes.fr/nos-emissions
02.09.2025 14:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📰Un court commentaire sur la turbo- #militarisation de l'Europe et sur la Défense Civile Non-Violente ( #DCNV):
pressenza.com/fr/2025/08/l.... Publication par @pressenza.bsky.social de mon propos a #UEMSS2025
🗣️ Looking fwd to presenting #AnarchoPacifist Critique of the European Project at #EISAPEC25 in 12mins
28.08.2025 11:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today = 1st 🎂 of co-authored JPN forum on #Malm's How To Blow Up a Pipeline, complicating his call for #sabotage in light of scholarship on #pacifism & #nonviolence doi.org/10.1163/2772...
28.08.2025 11:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🗣️ Looking fwd to taking part in #EISAPEC25 roundtable on Reimagining #Pacifism/#nonviolence in an Age of Resurgent Neoimperialism in 15mins with Mikael Baaz, Joana Ricarte, Kristoffer Liden, Benoît Pelopidas, Victoria Basham & Noga Glucksam
27.08.2025 13:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🗣️ Ravi d'avoir réflechi avec autres intervenant.e.s et militant.e.s #UEMSS2025 sur la question des résistances face à la #militarisation de nos sociétés et aux économies de #guerre hier après-midi: www.uemss.org/spip.php?pag...
26.08.2025 05:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today = 4th🎂of Greek translation of "A Christian Anarchist Critique of Violence" as "Μια #Χριστιανική #Αναρχική Κριτική της #Βίας. Από το Γύρισμα και της Άλλης Παρειάς στην Απόρριψη του Κράτους": geniusloci2017.wordpress.com/2021/04/19/a...
21.08.2025 19:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📰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
24.06.2025 08:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Includes 1/ essay from me on #Tolstoy’s #politicalthought, 2/ co-authored intro discussing ‘ #religiousness ’ of political #ideologies such as #anarchism
11.06.2025 10:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today 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
11.06.2025 10:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0