{"id":8938,"date":"2014-11-17T03:16:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T03:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/?p=8938"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:38:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:38:43","slug":"gnad-research-seminar-spring-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2014\/11\/17\/gnad-research-seminar-spring-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Nonviolent Action Database research seminar offered Spring 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled\u00a0to celebrate the fact\u00a0that the <a href=\"http:\/\/nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu\">Global Nonviolent Action Database<\/a>, housed here in the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Swarthmore College, reached 1,000 cases this summer!<\/p>\n<p>Even more, we can announce that\u00a0<strong>PEAC 071B. Research Seminar: Strategy and Nonviolent Struggle<\/strong> (Cross-listed as SOAN 071B) will be offered during the Spring Semester 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Smithey will be instructing the course, and <strong>Professor Lakey will return in a supporting role<\/strong> during the beginning of the semester. \u00a0(Professor Smithey&#8217;s course, Gun Violence Prevention, will unfortunately not be offered in the spring).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/NVdb_Swat_banner_crop1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7856\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7856\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/NVdb_Swat_banner_crop1.jpg\" alt=\"Global Nonviolent Action Database banner\" width=\"616\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/NVdb_Swat_banner_crop1.jpg 616w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/NVdb_Swat_banner_crop1-300x58.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This one-credit research seminar involves working and updating the <a href=\"http:\/\/nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu\">Global Nonviolent Action Database<\/a> which can be accessed by activists and scholars worldwide at <a href=\"http:\/\/nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu\">http:\/\/nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu<\/a>. The database\u00a0was built at Swarthmore College and includes cases of \u201cpeople power\u201d drawn from dozens of countries. The database contains crucial information on campaigns for human rights, democracy, environmental sustainability, economic justice, national\/ethnic identity, and peace.<\/p>\n<p>Students will be expected to research a series of cases and write them up in two ways: within a template of fields (the database proper) and also as a 2-3 page narrative that describes the unfolding struggle.\u00a0 In addition to research\/writing methods, students will also draw on theories in the field.\u00a0 Strategic implications for today will be drawn from theory and from what the group learns from the documented cases of wins and losses experienced by people\u2019s struggles.<\/p>\n<p>This writing (W) course has a limited enrollment of 12 students.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn\u00a0more by visiting a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/tag\/global-nonviolent-action-database\/\">collection of posts<\/a> about the database in the Peace and Conflict Studies blog.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, Professor Lakey introduced the launch of the database in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TRfjprMiySI<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled\u00a0to celebrate the fact\u00a0that the Global Nonviolent Action Database, housed here in the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Swarthmore College, reached 1,000 cases this summer! Even more, we can announce that\u00a0PEAC 071B. Research Seminar: Strategy and Nonviolent Struggle (Cross-listed as SOAN 071B) will be offered during the Spring Semester 2015. Professor Smithey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2014\/11\/17\/gnad-research-seminar-spring-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Global Nonviolent Action Database research seminar offered Spring 2015<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[153,84,22,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8938"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8950,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938\/revisions\/8950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}