POL 101W Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Total War, Reform Government Of New Zealand, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
14 Apr 2017
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Political conflict: a dispute or disagreement, usually involving groups and the state, over something government is doing or proposes to do. Political protest: oppositional political action that takes place outside formal channels, generally seeking to have government make significant change in its policies: petitions, legally approved demonstrations, voluntary boycotts of products. Civil disobedience: deliberate lawbreaking that accepts punishment by state authorities as part of the action: illegal but not violent. Guerilla warfare: a form of highly political warfare built around lightly armed irregulars who oppose a government and use hit and run tactics and political work to take power. Insurgencies: a rebellion or revolt, especially one employing the tools of guerilla warfare. Revolution: the use of violence to overthrow a government, especially when the overthrow is followed by rapid, thoroughgoing social, economic, and political restructuring. Terrorism: the deliberate use of violence designed to induce fear in a population in order to achieve a political objective.
