The technology of nonviolence [electronic resource] : social media and violence prevention / Joseph G. Bock ; foreword by John Paul Lederach.
Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.Description: xxi, 288 p. : illISBN:- 9780262017626 (hardcover alk. paper)
- 9780262305556 (e-book)
- 303.6/1 23
- HM1281 .B63 2012eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.