Axell Boomer, a senior Nonviolence Project student researcher, has been awarded a 2024 Beinecke Scholarship!
Year: 2024
Spectacle and Nonviolent Struggles During the Vietnam War
It’s the late 1960s. A small, boxy television flickers on in the den just in time to catch the beginning of the nightly news. Like many nights before– and many to come– images of death and destruction from some far off communist country in Asia light up the room.
Amazigh Nonviolence: Language, Land, and Blood
The indigenous Amazigh people of North Africa have preserved their language and culture through centuries of pressure to assimilate. They fight for linguistic rights and land rights across the region known as Tamazgha.
Dr. Mou Banerjee wins Undergraduate Mentoring Award for work with NVP
We have some pretty exciting news to share! On April 25th, our director and supervisor Dr. Mou Banerjee was recognized for her outstanding mentorship of students at the Nonviolence Project and in the classroom! She and the other award recipients were celebrated at a ceremony in Union South, where her achievements were read out…
Addiopizzo: Sicily’s Anti-Mafia Movement, Past and Present
The anti-mafia movement is often associated with the actions of the Italian police and criminal justice system against the mafia, but grassroots approaches to anti-mafia work have an even longer history. The Addiopizzo movement is the most recent in a long legacy of Sicilians organizing against the mafia.
Civil Protest in Northern Ireland
Since the partition of Ireland in December of 1920, Northern Ireland has been characterized as a deeply polarized society…By the 1960s, a loose network, activists, groups, and organizations (known as the CRM network) began to challenge the discriminatory practices.
Vel Phillips: Wisconsin Civil Rights Trailblazer and the March on Milwaukee
According to Vel Phillips, it is hard to describe the wonder of the cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. to those who haven’t seen them because nothing compares.
Resurrecting King and Resurrection City: Opposing Memories of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and a Forgotten Moment in His Legacy
Every year, come the third Monday of January, Americans flip through news channels reflecting on the legacy of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Individuals active on social media—depending on the political affiliations of their peers—view a long series of posts listing the bastardization of King’s memory on both sides of the aisle.
Kwame Nkrumah: Wrestling with Nonviolence
Nkrumah believed that Ghana’s fate was intertwined with that of all Africans. He famously said that “the independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent.”
Investigating the Meaning and Application of Civil Disobedience Through Thoreau, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Disclaimer: The following blog post is not a reflection of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s opinion on the below topics. By Evie Erickson I mean to discuss the practice of civil disobedience and its significance using the …