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Author Bock, Joseph G.

Title The technology of nonviolence [electronic resource] : social media and violence prevention / Joseph G. Bock ; foreword by John Paul Lederach.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xxi, 288 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Nonviolence.
Violence -- Prevention.
Social media.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780262017626 (hardcover alk. paper)
9780262305556 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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