Nonviolence as Contentious Interaction

Abstract

change. But because our notion of contention is interactive, we tend to stress more relational than cognitive or environmental mechanisms (McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly forthcoming, chap. 5; Tilly 1997). Second, while most analysts of contentious politics focus on a particular kind of contention (e.g., social movements, revolutions, nationalism, nonviolence, terrorism), we search for analogies among them. In other words, we seek to detail the workings of similar mechanisms and processes in widely varying forms of contention-from nonviolence to confrontational conflict