Ripples of Hope : How Ordinary People Resist Repression Without Violence (Paperback)

Acknowledgments, Map of Africa, Introduction 1. Resisting Repression without Violence: New Theoretical Perspectives Part One: Sierra Leone 2. Students Shake the Pillars of Power 3. Women Help Restore Democracy 4. Mass Noncooperation Helps Defeat a Violent Junta Part Two: Liberia 5. Nonviolent Resistance in Abeyance: Courageous Dissent: the Doe Years 6. Peaceful Resistance during Liberia's Civil War: the Taylor Years Part Three: Kenya 7. Individual Resistance against Repression in Kenya (1987-1991) 8. Establishing a Culture of Resistance (1991-2002) 9. Conclusion: Implications for the study of Social Movements and Nonviolent Resistance, Appendix, Methodology, Interviewees Comparative levels of repression, Chronologies, Abbreviations, References, Index, About the author