Resistance Movements
Introduction to Resistance Movements
Resistance Movements, groups engaged in a struggle against military or totalitarian occupation or against other forms of social and political oppression. While some resistance fighters use violent tactics, others, such as Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., led nonviolent resistance movements.” (1)
Resistance Movements
Embracing mainstream international law, this section on resistance movements explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.
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Further Reading
- The entry “resistance movements” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press
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Notes and References
- Information about Resistance Movements in the Encarta Online Encyclopedia