Nonviolence Discourses In The 1980's

During the 1980’s there were major democratic changes though various dictatorships throughout the world. The changes varied from country to country, but four main causes affected every country. These structural causes and changes included: technological advances, transnationality, nonviolence discourses, and finally an emergence of human rights. The author, Padraic Kenney, explained his ideas on how each change impacted each country differently. The main changes from the dictatorship expanded each county's democratic views on the war and primarily the country itself. The advancements of technology helped revolutionize every country in more ways than one. The main advances of technology was used for communication, either through broadcasts, …show more content…
Kenney also has evidence how nonviolence discourse and the emerge of human rights also play a major role in shaping the world. Nonviolence discourse is the idea to use other “weapons” to communicate and finalize a solution without war. With the advances of communication through technology, the idea of a “nonviolent” discourse really took actions. Some countries realized that the use of photocopiers could be used to incite rebellions, but the common people denied that thought because they believe in a nonviolent country. With various people rebellion, the emerge of human rights escalated because the civilians finally realized they had a voice that could make a difference in their country. Human rights was forced through the United Nations issuing a right to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The idea of human rights was always granted, but not a significant number of civilians were issued their rights until the late 1970’s. Since of the neglect of human rights, countries grew in power, for example the United States, realized that every should have a say in their democracy. The role of a nonviolent countries and human rights impacted the world to less casualties and overall happier …show more content…
The civilians in Chile overthrew the help of the United States government in the 1960’s because they realized their lives would be better without a different country's leader backed by another country ruling over them. Chile realized that they have the power to overthrow Salvador Allende, a socialist from the United States, when they saw Cuba overthrow their leader, and replace him with Augusto Pinochet on September 11, 1973. General Pinochet’s goals were significantly different that Salvador Allende. His promise was to restore Chile’s economic prosperity. He indeed kept his promise by expeditiously growing the economy in the 1970’s. Although, he did not have the nicest ways to grow the economy, he kept his promise for the thousands of Chileans. Pinochet was viewed as “invincible” by other countries and looked up upon. Although, every good thing comes to an end when various copper miners and various university campuses protested when the economy began to fall. Although Pinochet had very promising goals for Chile, the way he got there did were not always in favor for the

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