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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 nonviolent revolution is a revolution conducted primarily by unarmed civilians using tactics of civil resistance, including various forms of nonviolent protest, to bring about the departure of governments seen as entrenched and authoritarian without the use or threat of violence. [1]
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Political protest and cultural revolution: Nonviolent direct action in the 1970s and 1980s. Univ of California Press, 1991. Graeber, David. Direct action: An ethnography. AK press, 2009. Kauffman, Leslie Anne. Direct action: Protest and the reinvention of American radicalism. Verso Books, 2017. ISBN 978-1-78478-409-6
Ackerman, Peter and Jack DuVall, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, Palgrave, New York, 2000. ISBN 0-312-24050-3 (paperback). Ackerman, Peter and Christopher Kruegler, Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth Century, Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, 1994. ISBN 0-275-93916-2 (paperback).
The effectiveness of nonviolent civil disobedience depends on how the public perceives it, writes Troy Williams UNC, other college protests test free speech and safety limits: How to strike a ...
Compared with protest and noncooperation, nonviolent intervention is a more direct method of nonviolent action. Nonviolent intervention can be used defensively—for example to maintain an institution or independent initiative—or offensively- for example, to drastically forward a nonviolent cause into the "territory" of those who oppose it.
In reference to noncampers at the April 24 protest, Texas ACLU attorney Brian Klosterboer told the Statesman that arrests of nonviolent individuals engaging in free speech activities are not ...