According to a study by Freedom House, in 67 countries where dictatorships have fallen since 1972, nonviolent civic resistance was a strong influence over 70 percent of the time.

Under the influence of both the Black Nationalist movement and the nonviolent civil rights movement, they changed their name to " The Black Peace Stone Nation ".

While never a mass-membership organization, the CNVA's pioneering use of nonviolent direct action would have a significant influence on movements to follow.

The essay later influenced Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Buber and Leo Tolstoy through its advocacy of nonviolent resistance.

Congress in the 1920s appealed to peasants by portraying Gandhi as a sort of messiah ( the long-awaited savior of an entire people ), a strategy that succeeded in incorporating radical forces within the peasantry into the nonviolent resistance movement.

Stanley Wolpert has argued, The " plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi ... who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one.

Satyagraha ( ) is a philosophy and practice of nonviolent resistance developed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( also known as " Mahatma " Gandhi ).

The word satyagraha itself was coined through a public contest that Gandhi sponsored through the newspaper he published in South Africa, ' Indian Opinion ', when he realized that neither the common, contemporary Hindu language nor the English language contained a word which fully expressed his own meanings and intentions when he talked about his nonviolent approaches to conflict.

In modern times, it was refined by Mohandas Gandhi ( 1869-1948 ) into the practice of steadfast nonviolent opposition which he called " satyagraha ".

Here certain movements particularly influenced by a philosophy of nonviolence should be mentioned, including Mahatma Gandhi leading a decades-long nonviolent struggle against British rule in India, which eventually helped India win its independence in 1947, Martin Luther King's and James Bevel's adoption of Gandhi's nonviolent methods in the struggle to win civil rights for African Americans, and César Chávez's campaigns of nonviolence in the 1960s to protest the treatment of farm workers in California.

At the time of CORE's founding Gandhi was still engaged in non-violent resistance against British rule in India ; CORE believed that nonviolent civil disobedience could also be used by African-Americans to challenge racial segregation in the United States.

He researched Gandhi at the library of the India House in New York City and by 1960 had carved a striking portrait of the founder of the century ’ s international movement for nonviolent change.

Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film based on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who led the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century.

His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hundreds were arrested and their property confiscated Reports of the Maori Ploughman's nonviolent struggle in the British media had an impact on the thinking of Mohandas K. Gandhi in India.

Mahatma Gandhi, along with many members of the Congress Party, had a long-standing commitment to nonviolent civil disobedience, which he termed satyagraha, as the basis for achieving Indian independence.

For Gandhi, satyagraha went far beyond mere " passive resistance " and became strength in practicing nonviolent methods.

In Peshawar, satyagraha was led by a Muslim Pashto disciple of Gandhi, Ghaffar Khan, who had trained a 50, 000 member army of nonviolent activists called Khudai Khidmatgar.

The Lake Shrine is home for the picturesque Mahatma Gandhi World Peace Memorial, the " wall-less temple " erected in honor of Mahatma Gandhi, architect of India's freedom through nonviolent means.

Her book Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr: The Power of Nonviolent Action ( 1988 ), concerns nine contemporary nonviolent struggles of the 20th century.

Taking inspiration from Mohandas Gandhi of India, he led nonviolent protests in order to give African Americans greater rights.

Gandhi threw the mighty British out of India with peaceful, nonviolent force.

" Shanti Sena " is a term first coined by Gandhi when he conceptualized a nonviolent volunteer peacekeeping program dedicated to minimizing communal violence within the Indian populace.

About Martin Luther King he said: " I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.

" and Mahatma Gandhi's message of nonviolent resistance in India, inspiring Martin Luther King, Jr .' s " I Have a Dream " speech at the Washington Monument in 1963.

Terry Martin has defined ethnic cleansing as " the forcible removal of an ethnically defined population from a given territory " and as " occupying the central part of a continuum between genocide on one end and nonviolent pressured ethnic emigration on the other end.

During the tour, he lectured to students, white liberals, and anyone else listening about his racial ideology, an ideological position between the " muscular approach " of Malcolm X and the nonviolent program of Martin Luther King Jr ..

This organization was an affiliate of Martin Luther King, Jr .' s Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was established to promote civil rights for African Americans through nonviolent civil disobedience.

King intended to fill the jails with nonviolent protesters to make a moral argument to the United States.

While imprisoned for having taken part in a nonviolent protest, Dr. King wrote the now famous Letter from Birmingham Jail, a defining treatise in his cause against segregation.

The King / Abernathy partnership spearheaded successful nonviolent movements in Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Mississippi, Washington, Selma, St. Augustine, Chicago and Memphis.

Glenn Smiley, an organizer of the strictly nonviolent and pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation ( FOR ), observed during a house visit that the police did not allow King a weapon permit, but that ‘ the place is an arsenal.

* In Germany, tribal laws promulgated by King Clovis I ( 496 AD ) called for restitutive sanctions for both violent and nonviolent offenses.

To this, King affirmed that he and his fellow demonstrators were using nonviolent direct action in order to cause tension that would force the wider community to face the issue head on.

King responded that without nonviolent forceful direct actions, true civil rights could never be achieved.

King was in 2004-2005 Senior Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, the University of Oxford, Britain, where she researched case studies of nonviolent struggle from British colonial records.

" Although critics said the lawsuit was at odds with their father's message and legacy, King III maintained it was in keeping with his history of negotiation and nonviolent direct action, claiming, " My father also used the court system.

Under the banner of their flagship organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, King depended on Williams ' keen ability to organize and stir masses of people into nonviolent direct action in the myriad of protest campaigns they waged against racial, political, economic, and social injustice.

Mississippi's Hodding Carter, Jr., sold a Chalabi-like dream of steady, nonviolent progress that belied the violent savagery that lay in wait for those who stepped out of line.

* Most offenses involving drugs or property alone are characterized as nonviolent.

Following the failure of the last of the national uprisings, the January Uprising of 1863, the Polish nation, subjected within the territories under the Russian and Prussian administrations to still stricter controls and increased persecution, preserved its identity in nonviolent ways.

They were nonviolent pacifists who refused to serve in the military and tried to live by George Rapp's philosophy and literal interpretations of the New Testament.

* 1942 – Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.

* 2001 – Philippine president Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

These laws gave the local population a legal, nonviolent way to stem the activities of witches.

In July 1973, Zahir Shah was ousted in a nonviolent coup and Kabul became the capital of a republic under Mohammed Daoud Khan, the new President.

It is particularly associated with his contributions to the idea and practice of nonviolent resistance, sometimes also called civil resistance.

It is largely characterised by its affinity to the principles and objectives of nonviolent humanistic socialism, but with a rejection of violent class war and promotion of socio-economic harmony.

Predominantly a rural people, Malawians are generally conservative and traditionally nonviolent.

Scattered acts of rioting and vandalism of public buildings followed, but most actions by the dissidents remained nonviolent.

In Bamako, in response to mass demonstrations organized by university students and later joined by trade unionists and others, soldiers opened fire indiscriminately on the nonviolent demonstrators.

Despite an estimated loss of 300 lives over the course of four days, nonviolent protesters continued to return to Bamako each day demanding the resignation of the dictatorial president and the implementation of democratic policies.

By 26 March, the growing refusal of soldiers to fire into the largely nonviolent protesting crowds turned into a full scale tumult, and resulted into thousands of soldiers putting down their arms and joining the pro-democracy movement.

Many peace museums also provide advocacy programs for nonviolent conflict resolution.

An iconic image of pacifism came out of the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 with the " Tank Man ", where one protester stood in nonviolent opposition to a column of tanks.

Historians have identified that event as being a key motivation that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall which ultimately precipitated the nonviolent fall of Communism.

Some pacifists follow principles of nonviolence, believing that nonviolent action is morally superior and / or pragmatically most effective.