Acts of passive violence generate anger in the victim and since the victim has not learned how to use anger positively the victim abuses anger and generates physical violence. Thus, it is passive violence that fuels the fire of physical violence, which means if we wish to put out the fire of physical violence we have to cut off the fuel supply. Unless we change individually no one is going to change collectively. For generations we have been waiting for the other person to change first. A change of heart cannot be legislated, it must come out of conviction.
Nonviolence is always relevant because it is the natural response of any civilized human being.
Violence is unnatural, a learned behavior. If violence is human nature then we would not need martial arts institutes and military academies to teach us how to kill. We should be born with the instinct and the ability to kill. The question that we need to ask is, therefore, not whether nonviolent is relevant but whether we are willing to move away from greed, selfishness and all the negative attributes that govern our lives to the more positive attributes of love, compassion, understanding and respect. The choice is ours to make.