Nonviolence

Nonviolence (or non-violence) is a set of assumptions about morality, power and conflict that leads its proponents to reject the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political goals. While often used as a synonym for pacifism, since the mid 20th century the term nonviolence has come to embody a diversity of techniques for waging social conflict without the use of violence, as well as the underlying political and philosophical rationale for the use of these techniques.

Organizations promoting nonviolence

• International Coalition for the Decade of a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence http://nvpdecade.org/
• Nonviolence International
• Fellowship of Reconciliation http://forusa.org/
• Albert Einstein Institution
• Humanist Movement