The technology of nonviolence : social media and violence prevention /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bock, Joseph G.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Towards an applied theory of violence prevention
  • Reporting and warning about deadly possibilities
  • Organizing against ethnoreligious violence in Ahmedabad
  • Overcoming gang violence in Chicago
  • Counteracting ethnoreligious violence in Sri Lanka
  • Crowdsourcing during post-election violence in Kenya
  • Foisting tribal violence in East Africa
  • Comparing the approaches
  • How to intervene effectively
  • What to do when violence prevention is unlikely to work
  • Concerns about misallocation of resources
  • Future directions and recommendations.