The emerging non-violent character of the iranian protest movement
- In assessing the aftermath of the fraudulent presidential election of 2009 in Iran, one question has received less critical analysis than other complexities of this event: What can explain the remarkable non-violent character of the Green Movement in Iran? I propose that the answer, inter alia, lies with the following three learning experiences: 1) The experience of loss brought about by the Iran/Iraq war; 2) the experience of relative opening during Khatami’s presidency; and 3) the experience of modernization of faith in the work of the post-Islamist thinkers that aimed to make political Islam compatible with democracy. Together, these learning processes fostered a new mode of thinking that is civil and non-violent in character.
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| Author: | Omid Payrow Shabani |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-248879 |
| Parent Title (English): | 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series ; 029 |
| Series (Serial Number): | 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series (029) |
| Publisher: | Goethe-Univ. |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2012 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2012/06/26 |
| Tag: | Democracy; Green Movement; Iranian Politics; Non-violence; Tolerance |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 344414558 |
| Institutes: | Rechtswissenschaft / Rechtswissenschaft |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
