0 a situation in which someone avoids fighting or using physical force, especially when trying to make political change:
The Dalai Lama has always counseled nonviolence.
1 the use of methods that are not violent to cause a political or social change
Gandhians made frequent trips, giving lectures, writing books, and winning support for nonviolence.
I deem peace and nonviolence as good ways to conduct one's life.
Themes such as the role of religion, the use of nonviolence, and the impact of the media, are the most obvious fertile ground for further study.
Yet other ends are so sharply divergent that a decisive step in the direction of one is a move away from the other : strict nonviolence, and participation in armed revolution.
This growing number of people are people who wish to advocate the way of nonviolence as of now.
It is rare that such a spirit of nonviolence among the governed evokes a similar response from the governors.
Let us seriously start planning for nonviolence now.
The movement campaigns for nonviolence and is active in opposing both war and the unequal global distribution of wealth.
