Non violence

this powerpoint shows u about what is non violence and types of nonviolence

1. NON VIOLENCE

2. MAHATMA GANDHI

3. Mohandas Gandhi , often considered a founder of the nonviolence movement, spread the concept of ahimsa through his movements and writings, which then inspired other nonviolent activists. Non violence is the personal practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition. It comes from the bilief that hurting people, animals or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and refers to a general philosophy of abstention from violence based on moral, religious or spiritual principles.

4. “non violence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it”. -Martin Luther King

5. Non violence is not a single virtue or a single quality of life; it is a congeries of virtues, of qualities; it is a spirit, a way of life, a religion o r as Gandhi would say , the law of one’s being.

6. In Gandhi’s structure , there are two basic pillars Truth Ahimsa or nonviolence Non violence is a situation in which someone avoids fighting or using physical forces, especially when trying to make political change.

7. Types of Non violence Non- Resistance: Non resistance rejects all physical violence on principle and concentrate on maintaining their own integrity. Active Reconciliation: A faith based rejection of coercion and belief in active goodwill and reconciliation. Moral Resistance: Moral resistance actively resist evil with peaceful and moral means such as education and persuasion

8. Selective Non violence: The refusal to participate in particular wars or kinds of wars. Passive Resistance: Non violent tactics are employed because the means for an effective violent campaign are lacking or are not likely to succeed. Peaceful Resistance: Peaceful resisters believes that non violent methods are more effective.

9. Non – Violent Direct Action: Practitioners may view non violence as a moral principle or practical method. The object is victory rather than conversion. Gandhian Non – Violence(Satyagraha): Satyagraha aims to attain the truth through love and right action; it demands the elimination of violence from the self and from the social, political and economic environment.

10. Non-Violent Revolution: Revolutionaries believe in the need for basic individual and social change and regard the major problems of existing society as structural.

11. Significance of Non Violence “people try non violence for a week, and when it doesn’t work, they go back to violence, which hasn’t worked for centuries” - Theodore Roszak

12. Non violence is a philosophy , an existing theory and a practice, a lifestyle, and means of social, political and economic struggle as old as history itself. Non violence provides us with tools, the positive means to oppose and stop wars and preparations for war, to resist violence, to struggle against racial, sexual and economic oppression and discrimination and to seek social justice and genuine democracy for people throughout the world.

13. Gandhian Concept of Non violence Non violence lives and grows by experimentation. Gandhi’s life was an experiment with truth and the means to truth, non violence. His life , he said, consisted of nothing more than these experiments. True non violence is religion, for it is a total commitment to that which the individual regards as supreme in the world.

14. In Gandhi, however, and in every authentic example of non violence there is a suspicion of and often a revolt against other worldliness, excessive ritualism, insistence upon theology, and ecclesiasticism. For Gandhi non violence is inconceivable without self renunciation.

15. The Tolstoy and Gandhian nonviolence is a philosophy and strategy for social change that rejects the use of violence, but at the same time sees nonviolent action as an alternative to passive acceptance of oppression or armed struggle against it.

16. Non violence is a policy of using peaceful methods, as opposed to forceful methods, to bring about political or social change.