Journal of Pacifism & Nonviolence

📢JPN 4:1 now out. Includes articles on #Ukraine, #Hobbes, #ontology, #Islam, & #care, plus 3 book reviews: brill.com/view/journals/…

📰Vassilios Paipais responds to @kennedycdog's article pitching #Rengger as edging towards pacifism, arguing Rengger the #Oakeshottian sceptic would refuse the label: doi.org/10.1163/277278…

📰Boris Tsokov explores how #pacifism & #prefiguration come together in prefigurative pacifism and illustrates it through case study of Iliya Enchev's early twentieth-century #Tolstoyan & #vegetarian –pacifist movement in #Bulgaria: doi.org/10.1163/277278…

❗ Reminder: deadline for this is a week from now 📅

📰Azniv Tadevosyan examines rise of #grotesque aesthetics in nonconformist #Russian popular #music of the late 2010s as a channel for aesthetic #dissensus drawing on #Rancière’s theorisation of politics: doi.org/10.1163/277278…

📰Adam North reflects on the place of #threats as a nonviolent means of redistributing power (via Sorel, syndicalism & Fanon): brill.com/view/journals/…

📰@kennedycdog argues that, over time & in light of the evolution major international conflicts, Nicholas #Rengger developed an increasingly pacifist sensibility: doi.org/10.1163/277278…

📢Call for Papers for free #Pacifism & #Nonviolence workshop (to be held in April 2026). Deadline 5 Nov. Full info in PDF in CfP tab here: brill.com/view/journals/…. Please circulate widely.

📅Today, international day of #nonviolence, why not check out our pages: brill.com/view/journals/…? You'll find work on economics, Islam, historiography, unarmed civilian protection, Gandhi, King, BLM, sabotage, AWS, gender, structural & police violence, etc. Follow us for more!

📢JPN 3:2 now out. SI on #Economics of Politics & Nonviolence guest edited by @ccoyne1. Includes articles on practical #pacifism, #nonviolent action, polycentric #peace, female property rights, & 1849 Paris Peace Congress. brill.com/view/journals/…

📰@jasonleebyas brings economic insights to @EricaChenoweth & @MariaJStephan to argue violent resistance common despite nonviolence more effective due to costliness of participation in violence, which makes its preparation a signal for mvmt’s seriousness: doi.org/10.1163/277278…

📰@ProfAndyFG examines ethical foundations of #violence & #nonviolence through lens of Pragmatic Ethical Principlism & grounded in cross-cultural ethical traditions, arguing nonviolence is ethically superior by systematically applying 7 core ethical principles

📰 @edstringham & Ethan Yetman document how Victor #Hugo, Richard #Cobden & Frédéric #Bastiat in the run up to, & at, 1949 Congress of Universal Peace in Paris: doi.org/10.1163/277278…

📰Joshua Ammons explores implications of violent v nonviolent #revolutions on women’s private #property rights, comparing Greece, Iran, Cuba, & Costa Rica doi.org/10.1163/277278…

@ccoyne1 @Abigail_R_Hall Check out the article here: doi.org/10.1163/277278…

📰@ccoyne1 & @Abigail_R_Hall develop an #economic case for practice pacifism, thus connecting applying economic scholarship on political institutions & government failure to pacifism

📰Olena Nikolayenko examines interplay between #gender norms & nonviolent/civil resistance in Ukraine's #Euromaidan: how they are contested but also how they constrain patterns of resistance doi.org/10.1163/277278…

📰@jeremy_moses calls for more focus on pacifist or war #abolitionist campaigns in the debate about autonomous weapons systems (#AWS) & how they are an affront to 'human dignity' doi.org/10.1163/277278…

New PNRN blog by Silviya Lechner (summarising a paper we recently published) on the disposition to seek #peace in #Hobbes’s #Leviathan: pacifismandnonviolence.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/the…

📰@JordanLofthouse brings together literatures on nonviolent action & free market #environmentalism to argue that property rights, entrepreneurship, & mutually beneficial exchange can help address environmental problems: doi.org/10.1163/277278…