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Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) is an international nongovernmental organization that employs Unarmed Civilian Protection.Their mission is to protect civilians in violent conflicts through unarmed strategies, build peace side-by-side with local communities, and advocate for the wider adoption of these approaches to safeguard human lives and dignity. [1]
The goal of this kind of action is to bring public awareness to an issue, persuade or influence a particular group of people, or to facilitate future nonviolent action. The message can be directed toward the public, opponents, or people affected by the issue.
The U.S. government cannot ban people convicted of non-violent crimes from possessing guns, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The 11-4 ruling from the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit ...
In 1983, a cross-sectional study of all 50 U.S. states found that the six states with the strictest gun laws (according to the National Rifle Association of America) had suicide rates that were approximately 3/100,000 people lower than in other states, and that these states' suicide rates were 4/100,000 people lower than those of states with ...
The 11-4 majority — reversing a lower court decision in the wake of the Supreme Court's Bruen decision — looked to gun laws dating to the 18th century for guidance and found none that ...
Advocates have called on Biden to commute the sentences of the 40 people on death row to life in prison. Biden made history and became the first U.S. president to openly oppose the death penalty ...
Empowering people by enhancing capacities to protect rights and to ensure ownership of and participation in various processes affecting people's lives; and Building and supporting a peace constituency that aims to change unjust structures, institutions, policies and laws through long-term nonviolent means.
Anarcho-pacifists do not reject the use of non-violent revolutionary action against capitalism and the state with the purpose of establishing a peaceful voluntarist society. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] The main early influences were the philosophies of Henry David Thoreau and Leo Tolstoy while later the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi gained significance.