nonviolence
She took peaceful nonviolent direct action against the destruction of the forest.
They are changing the law to help protect nonviolent offenders from life sentences.
Young children should not be locked up for nonviolent crimes.

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nonviolent | American Dictionary

nonviolent
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/nɑnˈvɑɪ·ə·lənt/
not using violent methods, esp. to cause a political or social change:
The protest demonstration was nonviolent, although the marchers were heckled throughout by onlookers.

Examples of nonviolent

nonviolent
Instead, he rants about the fate of drug addicts and nonviolent offenders, doomed to a life in jail.
An innocent victim of the crime can still be rescued, and no nonviolent means to achieve the same end are available.
And is it equally related to violent as well as nonviolent forms of delinquency?
In nonviolent fashion, this will both defeat the repetitions of the machine and humanize the worker.
He also underplays the nonviolent movement's use of coercion, such as boycotts, to try to force change.
They thought that smartly dressed men were nonviolent, being gentlemen.
If this is the case, they have one less parent socializing them than children from nonviolent intact households.
She interprets tree theft not only as a means of generating income, but also a form of nonviolent resistance.
It included early nonviolent verbal aggression (like other girls) and heightened use of aggressive posturing (compared to all other groups).
This included increases with age in less forceful, more modulated aggression, including nonviolent verbal aggression.
Boycotts are nonviolent actions-one of the few effective ways that citizens may directly register moral outrage over the behavior of a state or other actor.
During war, they are often religious pacifists who pursue a self-imposed obligation to "bear witness" to a nonviolent way of life.
An innocent victim of the crime can still be rescued and no nonviolent means to achieve the same end are available.
But there are nonviolent preemptive practices as well.
This asks larger questions about the national and global conditions that make possible the ethics and tactics of nonviolent political thought and action.
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