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Demonstrations can be nonviolent or violent (usually referred to by participants as "militant"), or can begin as nonviolent and turn violent depending on the circumstances. Sometimes riot police or other forms of law enforcement become involved. In some cases, this may be in order to try to prevent the protest from taking place at all.
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]
A dharna (Hindi: धरना; Urdu: دهرنا) is a non-violent sit-in protest, which may include a fast undertaken at the door of an offender, especially a debtor, in India as a means of obtaining compliance with a demand for justice, state response of criminal cases, [69] or payment of a debt.
Civil disorder arising from political grievances can include a range of events, from a simple protest to a mass civil disobedience. These events can be spontaneous, but can also be planned. These events can turn violent when agitators and law enforcers overreact.
The protests in Georgia have highlighted the country's complex, fraught relationship with its much larger neighbor to the north, Russia. Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and it continues to occupy ...
There is no generally agreed legal definition of the right. Based on Tony Honoré , Murphy suggests that the "'right to resist' is the right, given certain conditions, to take action intended to effect social, political or economic change, including in some instances a right to commit acts that would ordinarily be unlawful". [ 27 ]
Still, although it might be tempting to compare the nationwide campus protests to the anti-Vietnam War movement of a half century ago, Robert Cohen says that would be an overreaction. “I would say that this is the biggest, in the United States, in the 21st century,” said Cohen, a professor of history and social studies at New York University.
Protest organizers say they are imposing “a complete shutdown” across Bangladesh on Thursday, except for essential services. Here's what to know about the violent protests over government jobs ...