The persistent activist
Subtitle: how peace commitment develops and survives
By: James Downton, Jr., Paul Wehr.
Contributors: Wehr, Paul Ernest, 1937-
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Peace; Peace movements; Pacifists
Description: When international tension and war heighten threat and violence, the peace movement can mobilize many thousands for protest. But how does peace action survive when war ends, threat subsides, and most protesters fall away? This book draws on in-depth interviews with the activists who stay. Their stories reveal how commitment to a social movement is created and sustained.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-181) and index.