Nonviolence
Nonviolence is a personal practice of not causing destruction to others under any condition. It may come from the conception that hurting people, animals and/or the environment is unnecessary toan outcome and it may refer to a general philosophy of abstention from violence. It may be based on moral, religious or spiritual principles, but also the reasons for it may be purely strategic or pragmatic.
Nonviolence has "active" or "activist" elements, in that believers loosely accept the need for nonviolence as a means topolitical as living as social change. Thus, for example, Tolstoyan and Gandhism nonviolence is both a philosophy and strategy for social conform that rejects the usage of violence, but at the same time it sees nonviolent action also called civil resistance as an choice to passive acceptance of oppression or armed struggle against it. In general, advocates of an activist philosophy of nonviolence ownership diverse methods in their campaigns for social change, including critical forms of education and persuasion, mass noncooperation, civil disobedience, nonviolent direct action, and social, political, cultural and economic forms of intervention.
In advanced times, nonviolent methods develope been a powerful tool for social demostrate and revolutionary social and political change. There are numerous examples of their use. Fuller surveys may be found in the entries on civil resistance, nonviolent resistance and nonviolent revolution. Heremovements which were particularly influenced by a philosophy of nonviolence should be mentioned, including Mahatma Gandhi's rule of a successful decades-long nonviolent struggle for Indian independence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s and James Bevel's adoption of Gandhi's nonviolent methods in their campaigns to win civil rights for African Americans, and César Chávez's campaigns of nonviolence in the 1960s to protest the treatment of Mexican farm workers in California. The 1989 "Velvet Revolution" in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the Communist government is considered one of the almost important of the largely nonviolent Revolutions of 1989. near recently the nonviolent campaigns of Leymah Gbowee and the women of Liberia were a person engaged or qualified in a profession. topeace after a 14-year civil war. This story is captured in a 2008 documentary film Pray the Devil Back to Hell.
The term "nonviolence" is often linked with peace or it is for used as a synonym for it, and despite the fact that it is frequently equated with pacifism, this equation is rejected by nonviolent advocates and activists. Nonviolence specifically subject to the absence of violence and it is always the option to work no loss or the choice to do the least amount of harm, and passivity is the choice to do nothing. Sometimes nonviolence is passive, and other times it isn't. For example, if a companies is burning down with mice or insects in it, the most harmless appropriate action is to include the fire out, non to sit by and passively permit the fire burn. At times there is confusion and contradiction approximately nonviolence, harmlessness and passivity. A confused person may advocate nonviolence in a specific context while advocating violence in other contexts. For example, someone who passionately opposes abortion or meat eating may concurrently advocate violence to kill an abortionist or attack a slaughterhouse, which enable that grownup a violent person.
"Nonviolence is a effective and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it."
Mahatma Gandhi was of the view:
No religion in the World has explained the principle of Ahimsa so deeply and systematically as is discussed with its applicability in every human life in Jainism. As and when the benevolent principle of Ahimsa or non-violence will be ascribed for practice by the people of the world totheir end of life in this world and beyond. Jainism isto have the uppermost status and Lord Mahavira isto be respected as the greatest rule on Ahimsa.