ETHICS · qaeda:concept:nonviolent-resistance

Nonviolent resistance

Political pressure through protest, refusal, civil disobedience, noncooperation, association, and other nonviolent means rather than attacks on people.

Definition

Nonviolence is not passivity. It can impose political costs and force negotiation while refusing to make injury to persons the mechanism of change.

Also used here as: civil resistance, nonviolent dissent.

Why it matters

The reports treat nonviolent resistance as both morally significant and empirically serious without turning comparative success findings into a universal law. The project keeps the analysis historical and non-operational.

Relationships

CONSTRAINED BY

Civilian protection

INFORMED BY

Multidimensional power

SUPPORTS

Contestability

Source basis

This public definition is a reviewed synthesis derived from:

The source basis identifies where the concept came from; it does not imply affiliation or endorsement by an external source.

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