Author profile: Iain Atack

Iain Atack is Assistant Professor in the International Peace Studies programme at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of The Ethics of Peace and War, Edinburgh University Press, 2005.

Civil Resistance, Transformative Nonviolence and the State

Iain Atack • Nov 21 2012 • Articles

The two forms of nonviolent political action; civil resistance and transformative nonviolence, have different attitudes towards the state. Civil resistance enhances state institutions whilst transformative nonviolence aims for new forms of social and political organisation.

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