The April Uprising: How a Nonviolent Struggle Explains the Transformation of Armed Conflict in Nepal
The April Uprising: How a Nonviolent Struggle Explains the Transformation of Armed Conflict in Nepal
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四月起义：非暴力斗争如何解释尼泊尔武装冲突的转变
DOI：
10.1080/15423166.2017.1372795
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发表时间：
2017
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通讯作者：
Prakash Bhattarai
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作者：
D. Subedi;Prakash Bhattarai
大量文献解释了武装冲突是如何在非暴力的政治解决方案中结束的。然而，关于非暴力如何以及为什么发挥冲突转化机制的作用，人们知之甚少。利用2006年尼泊尔4月起义(Jana Andolan II)的案例研究，本文展示了非暴力斗争如何成为结束肆虐该国长达十年(1996-2006)的武装冲突的工具。七党联盟(SPA)和尼泊尔共产党毛派(CPNM)这两个昔日的敌人之间的合作导致了非暴力的集体行动，推动这两个关键行为者的利益趋同，以打击共同的敌人：王宫。文章认为，非暴力斗争还改变了包括CPNM在内的关键行为者的战略、态度和行为，最终将冲突问题转变为和平问题，并从长远来看引发了结构性变化。因此，4月起义引发的行动者转变、问题转变和结构转变的进程解释了非暴力斗争为何以及如何成为结束武装冲突的催化剂。
A plethora of literature explains how armed conflicts terminate in nonviolent political settlements. However, little is known about how and why nonviolence functions as a mechanism of conflict transformation. Using the case study of the 2006 April Uprising (Jana Andolan II) in Nepal, this paper shows how the nonviolent struggle was a vehicle for the termination of the armed conflict that ravaged the country for a decade (1996–2006). The collaboration between the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and the Communist Party of Nepal Maoist (CPNM), erstwhile enemies, led to nonviolent collective action, driven by the convergence of interests of these two key actors towards fighting a common enemy: the royal Palace. The paper argues that the nonviolent struggle also transformed strategies, attitudes and behaviour of key actors, including the CPNM, which ultimately transformed conflict issues into peace issues and induced structural changes in the long run. Thus the processes of actor transformation, issue transformation and structural transformation catalysed by the April Uprising explain why and how the nonviolent struggle functioned as a catalyst for the termination of the armed conflict.