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Recently, there have been calls for social scientists to use their skills in the service of social change. Yet colleges and universities resist integration of the roles of social change practitioner and academic. Those who would integrate activism and scholarship face formidable obstacles in reconciling the competing demands of two very different worlds. This article discusses the problem of integrating those roles and examines the obstacles to integration in both academic and activist organizations. The authors argue that the most difficult barriers to overcome exist in the academic world, although working with social movement groups also poses problems. They conclude with suggestions for how activist academics can further integrate their roles and create a social science of social change.

ISSN:0149-0508    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0130.1994.tb00596.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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This article delineates the nature of peace activism in Canada in the immediate post‐World War 11 period. It contends that in the politically charged atmosphere of the Cold War any peace activism was, by definition, a highly politicized project. In turn, the range of dissent dictated by the postwar liberal “consensus” was narrowed dramatically. Consequently, peace activists who did not conform found themselves marginalized by a host of political and cultural forces, primarily the state and media. Negative responses to attempts by the Canadian Peace Congress to challenge aspects of the postwar order indicate how Western democracies view peace activism as dissent and how this dissent is marginalized and minimized through a variety of mecha

ISSN:0149-0508    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0130.1994.tb00597.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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This article examines the background, implementation, and future prospects of South Africa's National Peace Accord, a wide‐ranging agreement to curb political violence signed by mainstream political parties in September 1991. The Accord is argued to be a novel and innovative attempt to reduce political violence, but one not without serious shortcomings and pitfalls. It explains the Accord's evolution in the context of the negotiated transition from apartheid to nonracial democracy in South Africa. The elements of the agreement are examined in detail, especially the role of regional and local peace committees established as mechanisms to reduce political violence at the grassroots level. The Accord's implementation is assessed, as is the role of international observer missions—especially the United Nations team—that links up with Accord structures. The article concludes with recommendations for strengthening the agreement and highlights the challenges, risks and opportunities its structures will face as political violence likely escalates in conjunction with South Africa's first nonracial election slated for April

ISSN:0149-0508    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0130.1994.tb00598.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:Peace as a Women's Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women's Rights, by Harriet Hyman Alonso.One Woman's Passion for Peace and Freedom: The Life of Mildred Scott Olmsted, by Margaret Hope Bacon.Global Glasnost: Toward a New World Information and Communication Order?Criminology as Peacemaking, edited by Hal Pepinsky and Richard Quinney.

ISSN:0149-0508    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0130.1994.tb00599.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0149-0508    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0130.1994.tb00600.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0149-0508    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0130.1994.tb00601.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY