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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi [c] (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
Rhoda Hatch (1946–2020) – American peace activist who organized protests against Operation Desert Storm; Marii Hasegawa (1918–2012) – Japanese peace activist and president (1971–1975) of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Václav Havel (1936–2011) – Czech nonviolent writer, poet, and politician
The protest was the largest anti-nuclear rally in the U.S. for several decades. [72] In Britain, there were many protests against the government's proposal to replace the aging Trident weapons system with newer missiles. The largest of the protests had 100,000 participants and, according to polls, 59 percent of the public opposed the move. [72]
They translated the results into a theory of civil resistance and its success rate for political change compared to violent resistance. [5] Their team compared over 200 violent revolutions and over 100 nonviolent campaigns. Their data shows that 26% of the violent revolutions were successful, while 53% of the nonviolent campaigns succeeded. [4]
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]
Stacker explores famous student protests in modern history. Beginning at the turn of the 20th century, themes include civil rights, anti-war, pro-democracy, women's movements, and more.
By 1954 this had led to the intellectual conviction that "nonviolent resistance was one of the most potent weapons available to oppressed people in their quest for social justice." [ 22 ] Some have opted for civil resistance when they were in opposition to the government, but then have later, when in government, adopted or accepted very ...
[citation needed] In many situations they have been characterized by nonviolent protests, or have taken the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change through nonviolent forms of resistance. In some situations, they have been accompanied, or followed, by civil unrest and armed rebellion. The process has been long and ...