Resolução pacífica de conflitos: uma análise comparativa das ações não violentas em Nashville e no Egito

Abstract

In a conflicting conjuncture, the paths to resolutions and coordination of disagreements between the parties are diverse, with both warlike and peaceful means as possible solutions. In consonance with the last ones, it is interesting to highlight the role of nonviolent actions of civil society movements as important mechanisms to achieve a peaceful resolution of the litigations, whether they are domestic or even international. In this sense, it is necessary to understand how these nonviolent actions contribute to the resolution of conflicts, so that more peaceful and egalitarian measures are achieved in these contexts, in counterpoint to the violent character that many solutions tend to follow. Thus, the central objective of this research is to understand how such actions by civil society contribute to a peaceful resolution of conflicts. Among the specific objectives, there is, first of all, the theoretical basis of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, followed by the presentation and definition of the elements of these nonviolent actions as a theoretical field, and also the observation and comparative analysis of the cases of Nashville, in the 1960s, and the demonstrations in Egypt, in 2011, during the Arab Spring. Therefore, the methodological procedures of this research consist of the survey, review and bibliographic analysis of the conditions that make the important nonviolent actions of civil society a feasible mechanism for peaceful conflict resolution.