Very often these counter actions are included in the strategy. Ecotage can be used in symbolic strategies as well as in direct actions. Throwing sand in the tanks of bulldozers to cause technical and financial damage to road-building, logging or mining firms. The term is mostly used to criminalize certain environmental activists and mostly without real reason. Nevertheless it can be a useful term to describe a certain form of strategies.
Terrorism uses terror as tool.
These issues can be debated, but what this definition is designed for in the context of the conference is distinguishing violence from property destruction. In strict definitions of non-violence , any physical or psychological harm to any living creature or property is disqualified. In these definitions, cutting fences, blowing up whaling boats or sabotaging draglines is seen as violence. This is of course a very general statement. There are illegal actions, which nobody of us probably ever will support.