M. S. Wallace - Security Without Weapons: Rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection

Edited by Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University and Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick

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Security Without Weapons

Rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection

M. S. Wallace

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I would like to thank all those who made this project possible and who supported, challenged, and inspired me along the way. A good place to start is with my wonderful dissertation committee at Brown Sharon Krause, Thomas Biersteker, and Catherine Lutz who supported and encouraged a project that did not fit easily within any one sub-field let alone the discipline of political science. This projects initial development benefited enormously from their wide-ranging expertise, open-mindedness, and criticism. They also remain models for me, in different ways, of what it means to be a politically engaged, critical scholar. (I was lucky to have the guidance of a similarly marvelous faculty trio during my undergraduate studies and would like to thank Harold Garrett-Goodyear, Eugenia Herbert, and Jane Crosthwaite for nurturing the development of these interests and questions in their embryonic phase as manifested in my thesis at Mount Holyoke.) I also owe a great deal to the faculty, staff, and fellow graduate students of Browns Department of Political Science and interdisciplinary Graduate Program on Development, as well as to those affiliated with the Watson Institute, whose many interdisciplinary programs, lectures, and events provided a rich and stimulating environment for intellectual development during my graduate studies. I especially want to single out fellow travelers Jack Amoureux, Rich Maher, Huss Banai, David Western, and Rebecca Warne Peters whose companionship, good humor, and encouragement through years of coursework, comps, TA-ing, and writing sustained me socially and academically, making even the more stressful periods of grad school enjoyable! At Watson, Id also like to thank Neta Crawford for early encouragement and Vasuki Nesiah for pre-field research guidance and conversation.