Peace Theme 3:

Promoting

 What is Nonviolence?

Why Nonviolence?

Nonviolent Direct Action

The Goals of Nonviolent

Action

The Steps in Doing

Nonviolent
Action

Mohandas
Gandhi
was the preeminent
leader of theIndian
independence
movementinBritishruled India.
Employingnonviolent
civil disobedience,
Gandhi led India to
independence and
inspired movements for

As long as people
accept exploitation,
both exploiter and
exploited will be
entangled injustice but
once the exploited
refuse to accept the
relationship, refuse to
cooperate with it, they
are already free.

Nonviolence and
cowardice do not
work together.
Possession of arms
implies an element
of fear, if not
cowardice

A person and
his/her deeds
are two
different
things. Hate
the sin but love
the sinner

If we fight back
(in a violent
way), we will
become the
vandal and they
(oppressors) will
become the law

An eye for an
eye will make
the whole
world blind

Nonviolence is
more powerful for
converting the
opponent and
opening his ears
which are
otherwise shut to
the voice of
reason

Nonviolence
demands that the
means used should
be as pure as the end
sought. Two wrongs
will not make one
right. If the end is
good the means must
also be good

Martin Luther
King Jr.
an American Baptistminister,
activist,humanitarian, and
leader in theAfrican-American
Civil Rights Movement. He is
best known for his role in the
advancement ofcivil
rightsusingnonviolent civil
disobediencebased on
hisChristianbeliefs.

Nonviolence does not

seek to defeat or
humiliate the opponent
but to win his friendship
and understanding.

Nonviolence
seeks to defeat
injustice, not
people.

Nonviolence
thrives on love
rather than
hatred.

Nonviolence
requires
willingness to
suffer and
amazing
discipline in
midst of
provocation.

Nonviolence
holds that
suffering can
educate and
transform.

 Extreme poverty
Economic
inequality
Human Rights
Violation
Oppression

Peace Education tells

us that it is the best
to pursue social
change through
peaceful means as
violence only begets
violence.

Why
Nonviolence?

It is both an
ethical and
moral
choice.
Jainism
a wise person
does not kill,
nor cause others to kill, nor consent
to
others
by others.
Lao
Tzu -killing
weapons
are instrument
of evil and not of a good ruler
Buddhism- no one has the right to
take the life of another

Ten
Commandment
s

Thou shall
not kill

Destruction is
not the law of
humans.

Aggression is not inherent but is

learned in the process of socialization
and thus, may be unlearned. It is not
in human nature nor is it programmed
in our genes to kill. Humans, under
normal circumstances, prefer
cooperation to aggressiveness.

Nonviolence is
a practical
choice. Tools
and effects of
violence are
costly.

Nonviole
.
nce
Works!

Nonviolent Direct
Action
refers to efforts to
persuade with action
via methods of protest,
noncooperation, and
intervention without
using physical violence.
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Nonviolent
Protest and
Persuasion

Produce awareness of the

dissents

Nonviolent
Noncooperation
Presents the opponents
difficulties in maintaining
the normal operation of
system.
(Consumers boycott,
General Strike, Civil
Disobedience)

Nonviolent
Intervention

Challenges the
opponent more
directly

Goals of Nonviolent
Actions

to dramatize the issue (of injustice)

to put pressure on the adversary to
confront the issue.
to create tension/crisis that would
force the adversary to open the door
to negotiation.
to create a situation that would
liberate victims from silence and
helplessness.
To gain attention, and
consequently, support from larger

Steps in Doing
Nonviolent
Direct Action

1.Gather Data

2.Raise
Consciousness of
People about the
Issue.

3. Organize
Constituents and
Build Coalitions

4. Employment of the
various method of
nonviolent action

Thank You
&
God Bless!
Mary Christine Calansanan Ignacio
BSEd-Mathematics 3