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[https://tcf.org/content/report/nonviolent-movements-can-save-a-world-in-crisis/ by Ivan Marovic THE CENTURY FOUNDATION] | [https://tcf.org/content/report/nonviolent-movements-can-save-a-world-in-crisis/ by Ivan Marovic THE CENTURY FOUNDATION] | ||
Today, as war tests the rules-based international order, a sense of malaise permeates the globe. In countries from Europe to North America to the Middle East and beyond, the general public views politics cynically, as a corrupt and self-serving pursuit of personal enrichment and neglect of the common good. This perception of politics leads to feelings of apathy, indifference, and lack of hope—which then gives corrupt politicians even greater power to abuse the system. | Today, as war tests the rules-based international order, a sense of malaise permeates the globe. In countries from Europe to North America to the Middle East and beyond, the general public views politics cynically, as a corrupt and self-serving pursuit of personal enrichment and neglect of the common good. This perception of politics leads to feelings of apathy, indifference, and lack of hope—which then gives corrupt politicians even greater power to abuse the system. | ||
=====Nonviolence===== | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolence by WIKIPEDIA] | |||
Nonviolence has "active" or "activist" elements, in that believers generally accept the need for nonviolence as a means to achieve political and social change. Thus, for example, Tolstoyan and Gandhian philosophies on nonviolence seek social change while rejecting the use of violence, seeing nonviolent action (also called civil resistance) as an alternative to either passive acceptance of oppression or armed struggle against it. In general, advocates of an activist philosophy of nonviolence use diverse methods in their campaigns for social change, including critical forms of education and persuasion, mass noncooperation, civil disobedience, nonviolent direct action, constructive program, and social, political, cultural and economic forms of intervention.[4][5] | |||
