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This article delves into the interplay between everyday peace, everyday resistance, and constructive resistance, exploring their potential for transformative change. Drawing insights from case studies and an interdisciplinary literature review, this article proposes 'everyday constructive resistance' (ECR) as a framework for analysing how communities, through embodied actions, may contribute to constructing alternatives and challenging prevailing power structures, whether in the wider context of organised groups and institutions, or as informal efforts. This approach focuses on the perspectives and agency of people who experience directly the effects of violent power structures in their everyday lives; it interrogates how the processes of resistance could take into account embodied experiences, and what meaningful change may look like. Drawing from the findings of field work in contexts of social movements against violent state domination in India and Brazil, the ECR framework includes the five core elements of embodiment, construction of alternatives, power subversion, community needs, and community solidarity, which could be applied in different ways and to a variety of contexts. Taken together, we think that a framework of ECR serves as a way to develop and evaluate peacebuilding initiatives and resistance efforts to encourage their bottom-up dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We argue that studies of resistance have suffered from a bifurcation of fields, whereby some focus on organized forms (social movements, civil society or revolutions), while others are concerned with individual types (everyday, local and dispersed) of resistance. This de facto academic division has unwittingly obscured the links, dynamics, hybridity and entanglements between different forms of resistance. In order to stimulate a more complex and nuanced understanding of resistance, we propose a new research agenda for transdisciplinary studies of resistance and present some connections between individual and more collective/organized forms of resistance that need to be systematically explored in future research. Overall, this article argues for the need to recognize both the variation in forms of resistance, and the (often hybrid) linkages between them. The recognition that individual acts of resistance are fundamentally entangled with collective or organized dissent is necessary for shifting our understanding of resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article takes a historical view on the Indian civil society; its actors, strategies and issues, and evaluates its democracy-promoting resistance, and the impact from globalization. After a brief overview of the pre-independence context, and the early post-independence developments, the period of advanced globalization from the 1990s is focused. India is a country with a strong social movement culture, formed through its history of anticolonial struggle. The civil society is vibrant, diverse and conflictual, with a multitude of groups. Key examples are the anti-colonial movement, the land reform movement, the mobilization for "Total Revolution", as well as alliances of movements and recurrent mobilizations by peasants, women, Adivasi (Indigenous), Dalits ("untouchables"). The analysis outlines four historical periods with very different conditions for democracy-promoting resistance. The conclusion is that resistance has been very successful, especially initially. However, the analysis also shows how the counter-mobilization by Hindu nationalists grew strong and more impactful during advanced globalization. The result is that Indian democracy has been undermined. Thus, despite initial and fundamental impact, it is the Hindu nationalist counter-resistance to the resistance of pro-democracy civil society groups, that is impacting contemporary democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the interview with professor Elazar (Elik) Elhanan. Topics include the mightiest army in the middle east wasted resources and lives in a war that had no ends to achieve that was not anchored in any government decision or plan, and the initial idea behind Combatants for Peace grew out of the understanding of privilege as a tactical advantage.

An interview with political scientist James C. Scott is presented. Topics include his most important intellectual inspirations for understanding resistance; Hobsbawm were not seen as political as being political; and French philosopher Michel Foucault's writings about how power is dispersed into a network within the everyday in all kinds of relations in society.

The article reflects on articles that cannot be published in the journal. It encourage authors to submit articles that explore the borderland of "resistance" and mentions that campaigns within the wider environmental movement to build ecological systems for electricity production based on water waves, sun, and wind can be viewed as part of the tradition of Gandhi and his Constructive Program.

The article argues that resistance research is of little use for activists' struggles to achieve liberation, reforms or perhaps plain survival. It also states that limited view of knowledge, both among activists and academics, is a part of the problem. It recommends dialogues and discourse translations between activists and academics; and collaborative research projects.