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.

See also

• Ahimsa
• Anti-war
• Christian anarchism
• Civil disobedience
• Consistent Life Ethic
• Direct action
• List of nonviolence scholars and leaders
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Nonresistance
• Nonviolent resistance
• Pacifism
• Satyagraha
• Turn the other cheek