Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 272
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781849660907
'What is refreshing about Beyond Control is the vision for the kind of society in which protestors and police recognize their mutual humanity as well as how both are needed for a democratic society to function well. ' From the Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu How can large protest crowds be better and more respectfully managed by police? This topical book applies the principles of community-based conflict resolution to the policing of large crowds, suggesting a completely new approach that moves away from the discourse of rabble-rousing mobs towards negotiated management, and a paradigm of mutual respect for protesters as principled dissenters and for police as non-repressive agents of public order. Both are needed, the authors argue, in order for democracy to flourish.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements: Vern Neufeld Redekop
- Acknowledgements: Shirley Paré
- Introduction
- Part 1: Protest Crowd–Police Dynamics
- What is at Stake?
- Introducing Protest Crowds
- Emotions
- Introducing Police
- The Violence of ‘Otherness’
- Introducing Targets, Bystanders, and Media
- Reciprocal Violence
- Mutual Blessing
- Towards a Mutual Respect Paradigm of Protester–Police Dynamics
- Protest Crowds and Police in the Context of Democracy
- Part 2: The Mutual Respect Paradigm in Practice
- ‘Getting the Dialogue Started’
- Hearing from the Players
- Practical Suggestions for Community-Based Initiatives
- Bibliography
