WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -"Nonviolent action is a technique by which people who reject passivity and submission, and who see struggle as essential, can wage their conflict without violence. Nonviolent action is not an attempt to avoid or ignore conflict.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nonviolent action implies a commitment to utilizing nonviolent and creative means (e.g. acts of protest and persuasion, noncooperation, direct action, civil disobedience, boycotts, strikes, and education) to resist violent forces in order to influence and encourage social change.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tactics include protests, boycotts, sit-ins, civil disobedience and alternative institutions. Nonviolent resistance has been shown empirically to be twice as effective as armed struggle in achieving major political goals.

Detailed explanation-4: -not violent; free of violence. peacefully resistant, as in response to or protest against injustice, especially on moral or philosophical grounds.