1. Attentive, assertive, supportive EU support to nonviolent movements
- Author:
- Sergio Rodriguez Prieto
- Publication Date:
- 09-2022
- Content Type:
- Research Paper
- Institution:
- Berghof Foundation
- Abstract:
- Recent years have seen a dramatic increase of mass nonviolent movements around the globe, taking the street and the online space to demand radical reforms towards greater democracy, justice, peace or equal rights. External support to nonviolent movements can help prevent violent escalation, mitigate repression, protect civic space, facilitate conflict transformation and foster sustainable peace. In a global context where the shrinking of civic space is coupled with the proliferation of protests, the European Union needs to develop a strategy to deal with nonviolent movements consistently and effectively. This paper explores the role that different EU institutional actors can play in supporting nonviolent movements and puts forward some basic recommendations to develop a more coherent conceptual framework and factor peaceful protests into the EU’s external action.
- Topic:
- Regional Cooperation, Social Movement, European Union, and Nonviolence
- Political Geography:
- Europe