Nonviolence
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 "Flower Power", an iconic photo taken at the Mall Entrance of the Pentagon |
Nonviolence is the principled refusal to use violence to achieve ones objectives. It is a common strategy of war resistance and the campaign against the arms trade.
Advocates
Famous advocates of nonviolence include Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
"Non-violent extremism"
- Full article: Non-violent extremism
- Full article: Non-violent extremism
In 2005, the phrase "extremism" was introduced as an alternative to "terrorist". In January 2011, the phrase "non-violent extremism". In 2014, Alex Schmid at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism published a research paper that argued that the distinction between “violent [Muslim] extremism” and “non-violent [Muslim] extremism” is not a valid one. He concludes that {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Nonviolence |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=Alex Schmid|+sep=, |Has text=“preventing violent extremism is not enough; rather all extremism – Islamist and other – ought to be prevented, given the bloody track record of extremism in power in the twentieth century and beyond. Rather than distinguishing between non-violent and violent extremists, we should distinguish between extremists and non-extremists and support the latter against Islamists at home and abroad. Governments should challenge and resist all extremism, whether it is violent or not, whether it is Islamist or not.” |Is about=Nonviolence,extremism, nonviolence|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=May 2014 |Sourced from=International Centre for Counter-Terrorism |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName=International Centre for Counter-Terrorism |Has sourceURL=https://icct.nl/download/file/ICCT-Schmid-Violent-Non-Violent-Extremism-May-2014.pdf }}“preventing violent extremism is not enough; rather all extremism – Islamist and other – ought to be prevented, given the bloody track record of extremism in power in the twentieth century and beyond. Rather than distinguishing between non-violent and violent extremists, we should distinguish between extremists and non-extremists and support the latter against Islamists at home and abroad. Governments should challenge and resist all extremism, whether it is violent or not, whether it is Islamist or not.” [1]
Killing of non-violent citizens by Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is reported to have killed 48 people in the first 4 months of 2018, half for non-violent drug charges. Human Rights Watch stated that the kingdom had a “notoriously unfair criminal justice system”.[2]