, the guards failed to identify with their role. This made the guards reluctant to impose their authority and they were eventually overcome by the prisoners. Participants then established an egalitarian social system.When this proved unsustainable, moves to impose a tyrannical regime met with weakening

the city is intensified by what the city represents as a symbol of persecution, governmental corruption, police brutalities and oppressive / repressive policies advocated by puppet regimes. Therefore, the capital Arab city, the abode of tyrannical regimes, is frequently viewed as a prostitute. However

In this paper, I reply to Ward Churchill’s contention that, in struggles against tyrannical regimes and oppressive political systems, nonviolent resistance is ineffectual without either corresponding violence or the threat of violence. My response attempts to show why nonviolent resistance

The invasion of Iraq and the campaign for its a posteriori legitimization by the United States and England based on the argument that it involved the democratization and imposition of a minimum standard of respect for basic rights in a country dominated by a tyrannical regime, made clear latent

unstable, some would say incoherent, morality. This is, after all, the moment when the victims of Piero’s tyrannical regime finally impose justice and achieve some kind of redress, and yet these instruments of justice are themselves tainted by cruelty and the suspicion that revenge has become the means

policing and justice do not work are vacuums that can attract tyrannical forms of law and order, such as the rule of the Taliban. Peace with justice cannot prevail in the aftermath of such an occu-pation without a reliance on both local community justice and state justice that are mutually con

citizens around the world seeking new ways to reduce government coercion. Within this study, the author explores an alternative path to decreasing repression -a 'tyrannical peace'. Examining 137 countries from 1976 to 1996, he finds that single-party regimes are generally less repressive than

-lations and sexualised violence. During the Tahrir Square uprisings in Egypt in 2011, activists attempted to oppose tyrannical state power by reframing the legitimacy of their protest through expressing themselves as ‘The People’. Whilst they successfully brought about the fall of Mubarak’s regime, elitism and social

During the past decade, the entire world has been preoccupied with the Iranian government’s attempts to obtain nuclear bombs. Such weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a fanatical and tyrannical religious regime which considers the “Western” world, and above all Israel and the United States