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List of nonviolence scholars and leaders. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; English. Read; Edit; ... Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other ...
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict; International Coalition for the Decade; International Day of Non-Violence; International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World
ISBN 0-87558-162-5 Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice And 21st Century Potential, by Gene Sharp with collaboration of Joshua Paulson and the assistance of Christopher A. Miller and Hardy Merriman; ISBN 978-1442217607 Violence and Nonviolence: An Introduction, by Barry L. Gan; ISBN 9780367479237 Violence and Non-violence across Times.
The earliest reference to the idea of non-violence to animals (pashu-Ahimsa), apparently in a moral sense, is in the Kapisthala Katha Samhita of the Yajurveda (KapS 31.11), which may have been written in about 1500-1200 BCE. [30] [25] [page needed] [26] [page needed] John Bowker states the word appears but is uncommon in the principal ...
J. Edward Guinan (1936–2014) – Founder of the Community for Creative Non-Violence Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) – American anti-war protester and musician, inspiration Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935) – 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet , Nobel Peace Prize laureate and spiritual and formerly temporal ruler of Tibet and the Tibetan Government-in-Exile
Nonviolent resistance, or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while refraining from violence and the threat of violence. [1]
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Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) was one of the 20th century's most influential spokesmen for peace and non-violence, and Gandhism is his body of ideas and principles Gandhi promoted. One of its most important concepts is nonviolent resistance.