Nonviolence

Eye for an eye leaves the world blind. Non-violence has been proven to be the best and least destructive way to resolve conflicts. The main problem that arises with violence is that they quickly reach a point where the involved people and parties are only interested in defeating the opponent. And in the process, the objective and the goal of the movement and struggle is lost. Some of the best examples of non-violence in the recent times are from Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela. All of them were successful in exercising this philosophy. Gandhi won independence for India, Nelson Mandela achieved independence for South Africa, and Martin Luther King Jr. got the Civil Rights Bill passed and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Nonviolence is the best way to resolve conflicts as it is a philosophy that achieves resolution without causing harm to others.

History shows that Indians suffered from British rule over India which involved a lot of violence against the Indians. One example of the violence is the Amritsar Massacre, where over 1,000 people were

They say that this applies even in authoritarian as well as democratic environments. Mikhail Lyubansky Ph.D, a lecturer in the department of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in an article in Psychology today (published on Mar 12, 2014) says, “Perhaps the most convincing study to date is that of Chenoweth and Stephan (2011), who assembled a comprehensive data set of 323 violent and nonviolent campaigns between 1900 and 2006. They found that nonviolent campaigns were nearly twice as likely to achieve full or partial success as were violent campaigns and that the advantage for nonviolent campaigns held even when controlling for the authoritarianism of the