Columbia University / New York, NY April 15-17, 2010
Maciej Bartkowski organized a panel on Friday April 16, titled, "Rediscovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance Beneath Eulogized Violence in the Struggles for National Independence and Liberation." The chair of the panel was Matt Meyer, Peace and Justice Studies Association (IPRA).
Maciej Bartkowski presented the paper: Nonviolent Civil Resistance in Poland’s Independence Struggle
Howard Clark (Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, UK) presented the paper: Kosovo’s Liberation Struggle
Walter Conser (U of North Carolina Wilmington, US) presented the paper: Nonviolent Action and the American Struggle for Independence
Ishtiaq Hossain (International Islamic U Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur) presented the paper: Bangladesh’s Struggle for a National Liberation in the Light of its Civil Resistance
Syed Sikander Mehdi (Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan) presented the paper: Unarmed Resistance and Pakistan’s Independence
Majid Mohammadi (Stony Brook U, US) presented the paper: Iran’s Civil Resistance Movement in a Historical Perspective
Stephen Zunes (U of San Francisco, US) was the discussant