"However Long the Night, the Dawn Will Break"
| dc.contributor.author | Fraser, Annette M. | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Borrows, John | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-07-03T16:52:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-07-03T16:52:38Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2008 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-07-03T16:52:38Z | |
| dc.degree.department | Faculty of Human and Social Development | |
| dc.degree.department | Program: Dispute Resolution | |
| dc.degree.department | School of Public Administration | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis assesses the impact nonviolent protest has on structural conflicts when used by groups of people who are marginalized by repressive socio-economic institutions of society. Conflict Transformation focuses on changing the relationships between oppressive societal institutions and its people into just cooperative relationships through third party processes. Veronique Dudouet’s Contingent Conflict Transformation model focuses on the efforts of ‘ordinary people’ to address the destructive effects of structural violence. This model will be applied to a case study where two groups of women from the Niger Delta executed nonviolent campaigns against the Chevron oil company. The case study methodology is employed to analyze data to support the model’s confidence to effect change as well as offer considerations for improvement. The women of this study moved from a position of disenfranchisement to a position of empowerment when they negotiated an Agreement that reflected their demands in light of Chevron’s broken promises. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1016 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | nonviolence | en_US |
| dc.subject | conflict transformation | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Social Sciences | en_US |
| dc.title | "However Long the Night, the Dawn Will Break" | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | The hope in nonviolent direct action in the Niger Delta: A case study of nonviolent protests by women in the Niger Delta against Chevron | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |