Nonviolent Political Change and Lose of Human Lives!

Regarding tools for political revolution there have been always two schools of thoughts: I) nonviolent peaceful means and II) violent means through guns. There is substantial number of believers for both means. From changing dictatorial regimes to wining freedom from foreign occupation and letting rulers hear the people’s voice, nonviolent active civil disobedience method is used. The peoples’ strike in Russia in 1905, the movement for self-rule in India, confronting communism in Poland, are the examples of the use of nonviolence method in the movement for power. The same method was used in resistance to terror in Denmark, El Salvador, and Argentina. Nonviolent actions were selected for the campaign for Civil Rights in the USA, and against apartheid in South Africa. For restoring democracy and people’s power in Philippians, twice in Nepal and many former Soviet States like Ukraine and Georgia, the nonviolent civil disobedience tool was used.

For me nonviolent method is the most powerful means for bringing positive change. Violent methods can also bring change but it will even bring never ending cycle of violence that may be never ending. Many war destroyed African countries and Middle East countries seem to be in the spiral cycle of violence.

If people all over the world just use nonviolence method for political change, how much death because of man brought disasters will reduce? I have not done the math. But it does not require to be a rocket scientists to know that it will substantially reduce.