Beyond Control A Mutual Respect Approach to Protest Crowd-Police Relations

by Redekop, Vern Neufeld; Paré, Shirley

• ISBN13: 9781849660044
• ISBN10: 1849660042
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

'What is refreshing about Beyond Controlis 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 TutuHow 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.

Author Biography

Vern Neufeld Redekop is Associate Professor of Conflict Studies at Saint Paul University, Canada. He is the former President of the Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution.

Shirley Paré is Senior Trainer at the Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution and a Retired Officer of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Protest Crowd-Police Dynamics
What is at Stake?	p. 11
Introducing Protest Crowds	p. 17
Protest	p. 17
Crowds	p. 20
Moral Consciousness	p. 24
Levels of Consciousness	p. 26
Organization	p. 33
Designation of Protest Crowds	p. 35
Protest Crowds as Complex Systems	p. 39
Emotions: The Fuel of Violence	p. 43
Human Identity Needs	p. 45
Emotions and Moral Consciousness	p. 49
Expression of Emotions	p. 50
Emotions and Imitation	p. 51
Sopow's Analysis of Emotional Factors	p. 52
Emotional Intelligence	p. 54
Introducing Police	p. 56
The Evolution of Protest Policing in Nineteenth Century Britain	p. 57
Repressive Policing	p. 60
Reflection on the Early Evolution of the London Metropolitan Police	p. 61
Protest Policing since 1960	p. 62
Paramilitary Organization	p. 63
Tools of Technology	p. 65
Tactical Options	p. 67
Intelligence Gathering	p. 69
The Case of the 2009 G20 Protest in London	p. 71
Repression versus Negotiation	p. 74
Legal and Political Developments	p. 76
Avoiding 'Troubles'	p. 79
Specialized Roles	p. 80
Public Order Management Systems (POMS)	p. 81
Dynamics of Public Order Policing	p. 82
Ethical Aspects of Public Order Policing	p. 84
Crowd Control and Management	p. 91
The Violence of 'Otherness': Scapegoating and Hegemonic Structures	p. 95
Introducing Targets, Bystanders, and Media	p. 107
Reciprocal Violence	p. 116
Mimetic Desire	p. 116
Mimetic Contagion	p. 118
Mimetic Structures of Violence	p. 121
Mutual Blessing	p. 123
Mimetic Structures of Blessing	p. 124
Complexity	p. 127
Creativity	p. 128
New Levels of Consciousness	p. 129
Reconciliation	p. 130
Protest Crowd-Police Relational Blessing	p. 133
Towards a Mutual Respect Paradigm of Protester-Police Dynamics	p. 138
Paradigms	p. 139
Three Paradigms of Protest Policing	p. 140
Relationship among Paradigms	p. 150
An Integral Approach	p. 156
Implications of the Mutual Respect Paradigm for Stakeholders	p. 159
Protest Crowds and Police in the Context of Democracy	p. 167
Protest and the Emergence and Evolution of Democratic Institutions	p. 168
Protest Policing in the Current Context	p. 171
Beyond Current Forms of Democracy	p. 172
The Mutual Respect Paradigm in Practice
'Getting the Dialogue Started': Crowd Management and Conflict Resolution-A Case Study	p. 177
What did we Learn about Protest Crowd-Police Dynamics Research?	p. 193
The Aftermath to the G20 Demonstrations	p. 194
Focus Groups	p. 197
Conclusion	p. 197
Hearing from the Players	p. 198
Introduction	p. 198
Healing Dialogue to Rebuild Active Democracy	p. 200
Bridging the Gap: Conversations among Demonstrators and Police on the Right to Dissent	p. 204
Collaborative Management of Crowd Dynamics	p. 207
Covering Conflict: A Media Perspective	p. 210
Reflections of a 'Bystander' by The Rt. Rev. Peter R. Coffin, Former Anglican Bishop of Ottawa	p. 214
A Reflection from the Academy	p. 217
Practical Suggestions for Community-Based Initiatives	p. 219
What are the Roles of the Different Parties?	p. 220
What are the Rules?	p. 229
Mutual Respect Protest Crowd-Police Process Suggestions	p. 230
Crowd Dynamics Dialogue	p. 232
The Crowd Dynamics Seminar	p. 233
Event Preparation	p. 235
Conclusion	p. 236
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 247
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