Talk:Nonviolent resistance

message: Velvet revolution 1989 is correctly shown as an example of non-violent resistence, however the description of this event is wrong. There is desribed a resistence after Soviet invasion in 1968, Velvet revolution was a non-violent revolution which overthrown the communist regime more than 20 years later, it was not a response to any military action.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.80.222.164 (talk) 23:28, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Case of Czechoslovakia

message: There is definitely overlap between these three articles. I believe there is a distinction between nonviolent action and pacifism (one being active and one passive, respectfully), but I am not aware of a distinction between nonviolence and nonviolent action. Any thoughts? Salinecjr (talk) 22:36, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I completely agree with you, and I will bring it up at talk:Nonviolence#Distinction between different NV articles; that's the most generic name, and maybe there are more people there. — Sebastian 22:10, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overlap between Nonviolence, Nonviolent Action, and Pacifism 

message: I hate to throw this out there when I don't have the time to change it, but I think this page should be a list considering the article simply explains the nonviolent aspects of certain movements. Does anyone else think it would be rational to move the majority of information to their own respective articles and turn this into a nice looking list (See this really nice example of Prehistoric Scotland). 
Additionally, I think the name could be changed from Nonviolent resistance to something like 'Timeline of Nonviolent Movements' or 'Nonviolent Movements'. Salinecjr (talk) 06:29, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: This Page Should be a List

message: Now that these examples have been organized in list form, I suggest renaming the article "List of nonviolent resistance" Salinecjr (talk) 02:40, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Other names (proposed in previous section) are: 'Timeline of Nonviolent Movements' or 'Nonviolent Movements'. Maybe we could also have a name of the pattern "History of ...". For the second half of the name, we might also consider just "nonviolence", since we currently don't have such a more general list, and it seems a bit arbitrary to exclude other notable or influential moments of NV history from such a list. For that reason, I would like to postpone that decision till after we reached a decision on talk:Nonviolence#Distinction between different NV articles.  — Sebastian 22:08, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

text: Unfortunately, that discussion has become stale, so that we don't have a decision there yet - after over a year! In the meantime, I noticed that we also have Peace movement, which also is a collection of different events in history. Still, I like the table format here better, and I'm tempted to propose a merge of these two, so that all can be listed in table format. — Sebastian 01:58, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Just an idea: The merged article could be named timeline of nonviolence. — Sebastian 05:37, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Name change

message: Do you think Henry Thoreau should be listed in this article? - Babygrand1 (talk) 00:58, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That depends on whether we want this to be a timeline of nonviolent movements, or more generally a timeline of nonviolence - see previous section #Name change. — Sebastian 22:22, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Thoreau?

message: We can't really limit ourselves to "countries". Judea never was a country, nor were the Chatham Islands. How about if we change the heading to "region"? Also, MOS:FLAG requires a "good reason" for adding flags. Is there one, other than that it looks nice? Most of the flags are wrong, since they use the flags for current countries instead of the historic ones, and it's hard to come up with flags for regions like Judea. How about if we remove the flags? — Sebastian 06:53, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replace "country" with "region" and leave out flags? 

message: I'm not 100% sure I would call the Iranian election protests non-violent in the truest sense of the term, not all, but many have been going out looking for confrontations with police, throwing bricks and petrol bombs, burning cars and buses, some looting, and fighting with police. I would call the iranian eletion protests more of a typical uprising than non-violent protest.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.220.131.97 (talk) 19:54, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sadly, you seem to be right. The cited article says "Reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi urged his supporters to avoid violence", but later reports "secret policemen being attacked and chased away by protesters" and "police motorbikes were set on fire". The video shows what appear to be some nonviolent protesters being clubbed by the police, but also protesters throwing stones. The article 2009–2010 Iranian election protests lists some nonviolent actions, such as "using tactics such as the boycott of goods advertised on state-controlled television", but also says they were chanting chant "Death to the dictator!", which doesn't sound nonviolent to me. So, at best, it's a very mixed picture, but I don't see the level of nonviolence that would warrant for it to be listed here. — Sebastian 00:56, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Iranian election protests non-violent?

message: This is probably also not notable enough to be listed here, but it gives me hope, and I would like to celebrate it : "Something is stirring in the West Bank. With both diplomacy and armed struggle out of favor for having failed to end the Israeli occupation, the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority, joined by the business community, is trying to forge a third way: to rouse popular passions while avoiding violence." Rajmohan Gandhi just visited Palestine for a protest march, and next week, Martin Luther King III is scheduled to speak here at a conference on nonviolence. Let's hope for the best! — Sebastian 00:56, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Palestinians Try a Less Violent Path to Resistance 

message: This section is a mess; it contains links to articles that are no organizations, and to articles that don't even mention "nonviolence". I will simply remove those that don't fit, and I will move those that seem to specifically advocate nonviolence to :category:Nonviolent resistance movements or :category:Nonviolence organizations, as appropriate. (See also Talk:Nonviolence#Organizations that embrace nonviolence and category talk:Nonviolence organizations.) — Sebastian 20:50, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section "Current and recent nonviolent resistance organizations" 

message: I'm taking the liberty to add the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace here. It probably should rather go in the peace movement article, but that article is a mess, and I like the table format here. Maybe, as mentioned above, one day we will merge the two anyway. — Sebastian 02:00, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace 

message: While it is generally good to encourage the use of reliable sources, I don't think we need an extra column for that here. It seems obvious to me that whatever we write in the table here should always be an excerpt of the "main article", and that article already should have all the necessary references. Moreover, a general refs column doesn't make it clear what part of the text is being referenced. Can we therefore remove the refs column and move the existing refs to their pertinent locations? — Sebastian 02:09, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do we need the refs column? 

message: I have added material concerning the "Jasmine" Revolution in Tunisia. I believe the protests would be widely considered non-violent. I would also like to see a link added to the page concerning "Islamic nonviolence" in parity with "Christian nonviolence", but I am running out of time to be online today. Are there any objections to my current material, or to the additions I propose? Feedback is very welcome, as this is a very serious and possibly controversial issue. -- TheLastWordSword (talk) 21:48, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Jasmine" revolution in Tunisia 

message: There are compeling resasons for the merging. It is basicaly the same concept. The examples cited are also the same!
Olegwiki (talk) 18:04, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with "Civil resistance"

message: ‎Wnjr reverted my addition of Bahrain to the article because "no indication of relevance to article". IMHO, this is invalid. The means of the uprising are non-violent and we already have Egypt and Tunisia there. Bahraini people didn't pick up arms like in Syrian and Libya. Could explain your reason a bit more? Same applies to the revert in Nonviolent revolution‎ article which the edit summary said "no indication Bahraini revolt is nonviolent, or relevant to article".
Maybe the text didn't display that clearly, but as far as I saw in the previous entries, this wasn't required. Anyway, here's a source to help clear the picture: 
#foreignpolicy: "Also there is a history of non-violent revolutions faling miserably as well: The Green Movement in Iran in 2009, The Burmese Saffron Revolution in 2007 and the Bahrain uprising this year". 
#There were general strikes: , .
#Large peaceful protests: March of loyalty to martyrs.
#And they even used flowers:  .
Good? Mohamed CJ (talk) 13:03, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bahrain 

message: Should we put examples of bad non violent resistance? For example:
* Protests and pro-NAMBLA activism, like the one in Los Angeles in 1986.
* The ongoing protests of the Westboro Baptist Church.
Otherwise this article fails the Socratic method by assuming that all nonviolent resistance is good. --Pepsi Lite (talk) 13:53, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: In general if they have their own articles, yes it is fine to include them. By the way, I don't think it's appropriate to say "bad" non-violent resistance in the article, since we're supposed to be NPOV. Mohamed CJ (talk) 14:33, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad nonviolent resistance 

message: One of the people I removed from the See Also section was Jan Rose Kasmir, which is a pity because I really love her picture — I think it would be perfect for this article! Unfortunately, it's not in the public domain. — Sebastian 21:07, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jan Rose Kasmir's picture 

message: I commented it out inside the table so far. As per List of people killed during Euromaidan "102 were conflict participants, 16 police officers, 1 bystander, 1 was allegedly killed by the activists". Placing it as a sample of a nonviolent resistance by Gandhi and Sharp brings an unnecessary black humor into a serious matter IMHO. --NeoLexx (talk) 12:09, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Euromaidan as a sample of Nonviolent resistance? 

message: Please add to newly created Draft:Pacifism in France, Draft:Pacifism in Germany, and Draft:Pacifism in the United States. Thanks. M2545 (talk) 12:45, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  New draft articles: Pacifism in France, Germany + USA‎ 

message: The initial protests in Libya in 2011 were non-violent, and as in Syria, were met with harsh violent repression by the authorities, sparking a civil war/revolution/whatever you want to call it.  Syria's non-violent protests are acknowledged, but Libya's are ignored, despite the fact that the initial non-violence of the protests are both acknowledged and repeatedly sourced on another wiki page:  Libyan Civil War#Beginnings_of_protests.  I don't suspect a political ideology backs this omission necessarily, but it is not hard to imagine this might comport with the aims of those who might be trying to downplay the role nonviolence played in Libya.  Zachary Klaas (talk) 22:00, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I was just coming here to comment on Libya. It seems very strange when you see what happened and what is happening now. Non-violent? dragging a leader in the street and killing him? It really worked out for the country. --Inayity (talk) 17:21, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: That was at the end of the civil war, not in the beginning of the protests. - SantiLak (talk) 22:38, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The omission of Libya from the list is glaring 

message: The entry corresponding to "non-cooperation movement" states that "In addition to bringing about independence, Gandhi's nonviolence also helped improve the status of the Untouchables in Indian society." If there is any logical link that is being suggested between Indian independence and Gandhi's nonviolence, then it must be corroborated by proper, objective references. Also, there is little to suggest that the condition of the "untouchables" in India has improved 68 years after Indian independence, as seen in the continuing cases of persecution, marginalization and humiliation of Dalits and minorities in India in generalhttp://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/109-109/28948-persecution-of-minorities-in-india.https://www.opendoorsusa.org/newsroom/tag-news-post/bjp-win-elicits-mixed-reaction-from-indias-christians/ Hence, I am not sure the claim that "Gandhi's nonviolence helped improve the status of the untouchables in Indian society" is valid. Knaveknight (talk) 05:09, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Independence" 

message: I doubt that "Do not buy Russian goods!" was a part of nonviolent resistance. Please remove it. It was closer to war between nations or propaganda trick.
The definition of nonviolent resistance includes the word "resistance". Resistance should be against local authorities or some local stuff, not foreigners. 
Depesha (talk) 05:09, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two Ukrainian movements "Do not buy Russian goods!" 

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message: What is the real reason it happened? Killereater23 (talk) 15:08, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  WWII  

message: In short, non-violence is more effective than violence:
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-54142487
Other interesting statistics and observations:
 Erica Chenoweth has come up with a very precise figure for how large a demonstration has to be before its success is almost inevitable. The figure is 3.5% of the population.
 non-violent resistance has become by far the most common method of struggle worldwide, much more so than armed insurrection or armed struggle. Indeed, between 2010 and 2019 there were more non-violent uprisings in the world than in any other decade in recorded history.
 The success rate of protest has declined. It has declined drastically with violent movements - around nine out of 10 violent movements now fail, Chenoweth says.  But non-violent protest also succeeds less often than it used to. Before, around one in two non-violent campaigns succeeded - now it's around one in three.
Let us use it here. 
Zezen (talk) 12:29, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Study if nonviolent resistance works as compared to violent ones 

message: Subjectivity in this article surrounding inclusion of BLM as non-violent. Some consider it to be non violent but it includes violent action. Therefore language must be changed or exclude BLM Wrsutton (talk) 16:21, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for coming to the talk page. Please leave the article as is while the discussion takes place. I would suggest you read the section above 'Black Lives Matter'. The primary point is that reliable sources WP:RS need to state what this movements / campaigns are not what you or I think they are. Provide sources and the discussion can proceed. Thanks. Robynthehode (talk) 20:22, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Objective language 

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