Privilege, Empowerment, And Nonviolent Intervention
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Published In
Peace And Change
Abstract
When the important work of third-party nonviolent intervention is undertaken by people with relative privilege, it runs the risk of hindering the empowerment of the local movements they aim to assist by replicating racist or classist dynamics in the struggle itself. By relying on the status attached to the economic, cultural, and military dominance of the Global North, nonviolent intervention organizations can facilitate a relationship of dependency that offers short-term strategic advantages but that in itself is less likely to promote the nonviolent empowerment of local movements. Sensitivity training within intervention organizations may help activists strategize in ways that avoid some of the pitfalls of operating from positions of privilege.
Recommended Citation
Ivan Maxfield Boothe , '05 and Lee A. Smithey.
(2007).
"Privilege, Empowerment, And Nonviolent Intervention".
Peace And Change.
Volume 32,
Issue 1.
39-61.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0130.2007.00408.x
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-soc-anth/29