During various episodes of mobilization for democracy in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, protests not only failed but also gave way to violent confrontations and, eventually, civil wars. Syria, Libya, or Ukraine are among the most prominent examples for this trajectory of social movements. The aim of this lecture is to propose a theoretical explanation that specifies the conditions under which – as well as the mechanisms through which – this pattern of escalation takes place, bridging insights from the literature on the radicalization of social movements, research on the failure of democratization processes, and studies on the onset of civil war. In doing this, I will build upon the Contentious Politics paradigm, developing a relational and aiming at singling out robust causal mechanisms.

Prof. Donatella Della Porta; Professor of Political science at the Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence), Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (San Domenico di Fiesole), Director of the centre on Social Movement Studies – Cosmos (San Domenico di Fiesole)

Moderation: Dr. Stefan Malthaner; Soziologe in der Forschungsgruppe "Makrogewalt" im Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung

Erster Vortrag im Rahmen der Hamburger Vorträge zur Gewaltforschung - Gewalt in Bürgerkriegen, April 2016 im HIS.

Beginn der Veranstaltung: 19:00 Uhr

Quelle: www.his-online.de