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Cosmopolitan Communitarianism: Embracing Nonviolence through an Ecological Perspective

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  • In order to advocate for a nonviolent future, I argue throughout this thesis that we must redefine our sense of self within a social context. I assert that Communitarianism, which seeks balance between the individual and their many overlapping communities, can situate our identities as less absolute and more constitutive of the world around us. I use this ethos of relationality to scaffold a call to nonviolence. Based on the work of Judith Butler, I argue that a Communitarian understanding of relationality makes nonviolence both a possibility and a logical outcome: if we see ourselves in those around us, acting nonviolently is also a self-protective act. Throughout the thesis, I use both ecological and Buddhist frameworks to demonstrate how this new way of thinking might lead to avenues of nonviolent resistance. Finally, I apply my ecological framework to analyze modern conflict resolution in Israel and Palestine. I argue that state power, explained through the lens of Michel Foucault’s biopolitics, is preventing both sides from seeing their essential relationality. Through this analysis, I hope to draw attention to the barriers to nonviolent resolution and the alternative ecological paradigms that could test the boundaries of our very imagination.
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