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resistance movement

vr.tr.resistance-movement · SOC.ORG

Let an agent explain resistance movements historically, relay forms, histories and legal status from historical and international law sources with contested characterisations attributed, describe the named movements, avoid operational or recruitment help, and distinguish resistance movements from insurgencies, terrorist organisations as designated, civil disobedience and regular armed forces.

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Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain resistance movements historically, relay forms, histories and legal status from historical and international law sources with contested characterisations attributed, describe the named movements, avoid operational or recruitment help, and distinguish resistance movements from insurgencies, terrorist organisations as designated, civil disobedience and regular armed forces.

An organised effort by part of a population to oppose an occupying power or established government, through nonviolent or armed means, most associated with the Second World War resistance to Axis occupation, such as the Belgian Resistance, the Polish resistance movement including the Home Army, Dutch knokploegen, armed groups formed to protect people in hiding, and the Yugoslav Partisans, whose struggle Yugoslav historiography called the National Liberation War and Socialist Revolution, as well as resistance movements abroad and national liberation movements against colonial rule; how contemporary movements are characterised is often contested, and such characterisations are attributed. The model gives no operational guidance.

What it is for: Opposing occupation or oppression.

It can be explain history with attribution; relay legal status in international law; describe named movements; distinguish related concepts.

Distinguishing features

Opposition to occupation

Armed or nonviolent

Clandestine organisation

Contested characterisation

What it looks like

Not a visible object; historic images show underground presses, partisans and memorials.

Physical character

Warsaw Uprising: 1944 year - Home Army

Geneva Conventions Additional Protocol I: 1977 year - status of some liberation fighters

Dutch Landelijke Knokploegen: 1943-1945 years

How it is recognised

Organised opposition to occupation or government

Resistance movement abroad, National Liberation War and Socialist Revolution, knokploeg, Belgian Resistance, national liberation movement, Polish resistance movement in World War II

Insurgency is a military term; terrorist designations are government decisions; civil disobedience is nonviolent lawbreaking; regular armies are state forces

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

political movement

includes -

Home Army

includes -

Yugoslav Partisans

is contrasted with -

civil disobedience

In practice

Families and kinds

Second World War resistance movements

partisan movements

nonviolent resistance

national liberation movements

exile-based resistance

Standards and regulation

Hague Regulations 1907 and Geneva Conventions on combatant status

Additional Protocol I 1977

Failure modes and hazards

Operational or recruitment assistance, which is out of scope

Partisan characterisation of contemporary groups

Glorifying violence against civilians

Also called

resistance movement abroadNational Liberation War and Socialist RevolutionknokploegBelgian Resistancenational liberation movementPolish resistance movement in World War IIService DUkrainian liberation movement (1920–1950)

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What a resistance movement is.

Attribution.

Definition

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is a resistance movement, and how does it differ from insurgencies, designated terrorist groups, civil disobedience and armies? definition
  2. Is the question historical or legal, rather than seeking operational help, which is out of scope? boundary

Named

Named movements.

Named

Named.

  1. What were the Belgian and Polish resistance, the knokploegen, the Yugoslav National Liberation War and resistance abroad? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific movement? action
History Second World War.

Sources.

Europe

European resistance.

Europe

Europe.

  1. How did resistance movements operate in occupied Europe, as historians describe? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Rescue

Rescue and hiding.

Rescue

Rescue.

  1. How did resistance networks hide Jews and others, and how are rescuers honoured? provenance
  2. Which entry fits Righteous Among the Nations? action
Law Law and characterisation.

Attribution.

Status

Legal status.

Status

Status.

  1. How does international humanitarian law treat resistance fighters? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance

Contested

Contested cases.

Contested

Contested.

  1. Why is the same group sometimes called a resistance movement and a terrorist organisation, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Context Memory.

Context.

Memory

Memory and memorials.

Memory

Memory.

  1. How are resistance movements remembered and debated in national memory? provenance
  2. Which entry fits Warsaw Uprising Museum? action

Nonviolent

Nonviolent resistance.

Nonviolent

Nonviolent.

  1. What does research say about nonviolent resistance campaigns, with findings attributed? provenance
  2. Which entry fits nonviolent resistance? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each named movement be a separate entry?
  • How should historical archives be linked?
  • How should contested contemporary cases be presented?