Non-violence and Sustainability: An Important Combination for Achieving the Objectives of the 2030 Agenda?
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: big data; agreement measures between evaluators; generalized linear models in health economics; structural equation models; generalized propensity scores for impact assessments
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: developments in non-violence; Australian activist movements; non-violent resistance to Nazism; the environmental bootprint of militarism; women in environmentalism, and the role of the arts, humour and creativity in social change; address global warming; biodiversity loss and other environmental issues, and learn and teach in protest movements
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Non-violence and sustainability are in mutual interaction. Gandhi, a pioneer of non-violence, said
“The Earth provides enough resources to satisfy everyone’s needs, but not everyone’s greed”.
Non-violence, as a positive force of justice and responsibility, is also manifested through the rejection of passivity and indifference towards the intensive exploitation of the land, weakest populations, pollution, the waste problem, etc. By contrast, war has always a devastating social and environmental impact. In this sense, non-violence must always be cultivated to ensure sustainability, as a sign of a broad concept of development, whose purpose is the integral well-being of all humanity. With the signing of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, sustainability has taken on a precise, articulated and complex meaning with the aim of transforming the current situation towards an individual-friendly change. The 2030 Agenda commits governments, civil society, and individuals towards a new model of sustainable development, pointing out 17 objectives, 169 targets, and 240 indicators. Non-violent methods can therefore be a valid support for the achievement of these objectives, aiming in particular at respecting spaces, indigenous cultures, natural resources, and countering war policies that lead to unacceptable living standards for large sections of the population.
Is it possible to find meaningful links between sustainability and non-violence?
Are there examples of non-violent actions implemented in the world that can show positive effects in the direction of sustainability in its broadest facets?
Are there innovative methods of non-violent education that can be proposed in the education of children and young people, heirs of the planet? Furthermore, can we talk about the sustainability of non-violence?
These topics are often united by the paucity of available data. The use of robust statistical methods for data collection, validation, and quality control are essential steps in this type of research to subsequently optimize modeling.
This Special Issue of Sustainability offers a platform aimed at advancing the understanding of non-violent theory and practice with regard to Agenda 2030 objectives. Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to submit original research articles, case studies, reviews, critical perspectives, and viewpoint articles specifically on the aforementioned elements.
Prof. Alessia Spada
Dr. Marty Branagan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- environmental conflicts
- environmental justice
- environmentalism of the poor
- statistical political ecology
- environment and violence
- environmental and sustainability education
- conflict management
- peace sustainability
- ethnic tolerance
- ecological distribution conflicts
- problematic peacekeeping
- non-violence
- civil disobedience
- non-violent resistance
- non-violent resistance datasets
