For us here, liberation means getting rid of the military occupation in the north of Cyprus and a peaceful re-union with our Turkish Cypriot neighbors, and this includes tossing out the British NATO bases in the south, remnants of the British Empire, still armed to the teeth. We, as Greens, cannot both embrace nonviolence as a key value and military troops, UN mandated or otherwise. As I'm sure you know, nonviolence as a discipline and a theory for social change is a relatively new historical phenomena. I don't claim that nonviolence theory has a good answers for all circumstances. I do claim that violence tends to multiply and intensify itself.
Means largely do determine ends.
I urge you to reconsider this issue. In my opinion, the current position of trying to claim nonviolence as a key value and supporting the use of military troops is harmful to the Greens by making us look hypocritical. It is the willingness to undergo suffering rather than inflict it. It excludes retaliation and flight. This pretty much conforms to Gandhi and King's versions as well, as far as I know.