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<p>'''<span style="">Escalation</span>'''<span style="">&nbsp;is the “&nbsp;</span><span style="">[</span>''<span style="">progressive] increase in the means used in a conflict.”&nbsp;</span>''<span style="">-Usito <ref> https://usito.usherbrooke.ca/</ref> </span><span style=""></span></p><p><span style="">Through increasingly ambitious, disruptive actions, escalation can take shape. </span><span style="">This leads to polarization which forces the population to take a position, and hopefuly act, on an issue. </span><span style="">- The HUB</span></p>
<p>'''<span style="">Escalation</span>'''<span style="">&nbsp;is the “&nbsp;</span><span style="">[</span>''<span style="">progressive] increase in the means used in a conflict.”&nbsp;</span>''<span style="">-Usito <ref> https://usito.usherbrooke.ca/</ref> </span><span style=""></span></p><p><span style="">Through increasingly ambitious, disruptive actions, escalation can take shape. </span><span style="">This leads to polarization which forces the population to take a position, and hopefuly act, on an issue. </span><span style="">- The HUB</span></p>
== Stages of escalation <ref>https://www.nonviolence.wri-irg.org/en/node/40507</ref>  ==
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'''Bring the issue into the public arena'''
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*Protest (i.e. demonstrations, petitions, marches)
*Presenting alternatives (i.e. teach-in lectures).
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'''Legal actions that deal with the issue'''
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*Legal non-cooperation (i.e. strikes, consumer boycotts).
*Legal innovative activities (i.e. fair trade, cooperative businesses, nonviolent intervention).<br>
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*[[Civil disobedience]] (i.e. sit-ins, blockades, strikes, war resistance). *Note that not all forms of civil disobedience are illegal.<br>
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Escalation is the “ [progressive] increase in the means used in a conflict.” -Usito [1]

Through increasingly ambitious, disruptive actions, escalation can take shape. This leads to polarization which forces the population to take a position, and hopefuly act, on an issue. - The HUB


Stages of escalation [2]

Bring the issue into the public arena

  • Protest (i.e. demonstrations, petitions, marches)
  • Presenting alternatives (i.e. teach-in lectures).

Legal actions that deal with the issue

  • Legal non-cooperation (i.e. strikes, consumer boycotts).
  • Legal innovative activities (i.e. fair trade, cooperative businesses, nonviolent intervention).
Illegal actions that deal with the issue
  • Civil disobedience (i.e. sit-ins, blockades, strikes, war resistance). *Note that not all forms of civil disobedience are illegal.


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