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 --
It emphasizes environmentalism, non-hierarchical participatory democracy, social justice, respect for diversity, peace, and nonviolence.
Nonviolent resistance was at the heart of these campaigns, but key features of this nonviolence have been largely neglected by historians.
Among the early manifestations of this movement was a commitment to nonviolence and pacifism.
This network comprises civil society networks, nonprofits, foundations, and universities, all promoting nonviolence in tangible ways.
It became the iconic image for the non-violence movement.
His wartime experiences made a deep and lasting impression on him and the theme of non-violence followed him throughout his life.
On the other hand anarchism also includes a section committed to nonviolence called anarcho-pacifism.
The movement campaigns for nonviolence and is active in opposing both war and the unequal global distribution of wealth.
