RT Article
T1 Did nonviolent resistance fail in Kosovo?
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 58
IS 1
A1 Maršavelski, Aleksandar 1985-
A1 Sheremeti, Furtuna
A1 Braithwaite, John 1951-
A2 Sheremeti, Furtuna
A2 Braithwaite, John 1951-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1576175715
AB A standard narrative is that nonviolence failed in Kosovo: the Milosevic regime was ended by a NATO bombing campaign. This essay exposes errors in this narrative. Kosovo’s nonviolent resistance successfully unified the masses against the regime with a distinctive innovation of building solidarity by reducing violence. In particular, it reduced murders in blood feuds. Kosovo emerged from war with comparatively low violence for a post-conflict society burdened with organized crime. We contrast Kosovo with societies where more people were killed by criminal violence after peace agreements than in wartime. Reconciling blood feuds as part of Kosovo’s nonviolent campaign for freedom contributed to this accomplishment. Nonviolent resistance campaigns can be evaluated through a criminological lens whereby averting war is just one means to reducing death rates from intentional violence.
K1 Kosovo
K1 Blood feuds
K1 Homicide
K1 Nonviolent resistance
K1 Reconciliation
K1 Blutrache
K1 Gewaltfreier Widerstand
K1 Aussöhnung
K1 Konflikt
DO 10.1093/bjc/azx002