The Persistent Activist: How Peace Commitment Develops And Survives - Softcover

Downton, James; Wehr, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081332999X ISBN 13: 9780813329994

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

When international tension and war heighten threat and violence, the peace movement can mobilize many thousands for protest. But how does peace action survive when war ends, threat subsides, and most protesters fall away? This book draws on in-depth interviews with the activists who stay. Their stories reveal how commitment to a social movement is created and sustained. }When international tension and war heighten threat and violence, the peace movement can mobilize many thousands for protest. But how does peace action survive when war ends, threat subsides, and most protesters fall away? This book draws on in-depth interviews with the activists who stay. Their stories reveal how commitment to a social movement is created and sustained. }

About this title

About the Author

James Downton, Jr. is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081332999X
• ISBN 13: 9780813329994
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200