Is it possible and good to eliminate violence from social conflicts and what does it mean nonviolence? These are questions we explore with our colleague and friend Nadine Bloch – an activist, facilitator and trainer, a woman who lives the nonviolent methods of social change through her career. She is a member of the organization Beautiful Trouble that collects wisdom and experience with positive change by nonviolent methods.
Conflict is often related to violence. Violence is something we usually avoid so desperately that we even refuse to talk about it. And yet, the media, literature, computer games are full of violence that is shown to us and fascinates us. When mentioning violence, we usually think about “a punch in someone’s face”, or blood on the streets somewhere far away from us. And yet, there is violence present in our social conflicts, which is not so visible. It may be incorporated in our laws and regulations, in our habits and language…
In the podcast we refer to the study on effectiveness of nonviolent movements. In her book, “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict,” Harvard Professor Erica Chenoweth explains why civil resistance campaigns attract more people and why they are more effective in changing the regimes as well as in bringing more sustainable change.
Podcast moderator: Zuza Fialová
Director: Ľubica Stanek
Editing and production: Marek Vaňous
This podcast series is supported by The Rights Equality and Citizenship Programme of the European Union funded project European Observatory of Online Hate.
