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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Dissidents

Dissidents

  • Protesters
  • Objectors
  • Agitator

Nature

Dissidents reject the established majority way. Dissidents are almost invariably see as trouble-makers. The creative role of dissidence is rarely acknowledged.

Background

In mediaeval Europe people who strayed away from Catholicism were called dissidents. Later the term came to refer to all those who did not belong to Catholic or Protestant state religion.

Counter-claim

It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. (Jiddu Krishnamurthi)

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (Mark Twain)

Broader

Disaccord
Unpresentable

Narrower

Religious dissent
Unpresentable
Political discontent
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Political instability
Presentable

Aggravated by

Disenchantment with society
Yet to rate

Reduced by

Repression of intellectual dissidents
Presentable

Strategy

Protesting
Presentable
Dissident
Yet to rate

Value

Dissension
Yet to rate

Reference

Degenhardt, Henry W: Political Dissent: an international guide to dissident, extra-parliamentary, guerrilla and illegal political movements

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(C) Cross-sectoral problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Defence » Resistance
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    C9695
    DOCID
    11396950
    D7NID
    142193
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020