Strengthening peace and non-violence through education, advocacy and media including ICTs and social networks. Developing the use of heritage and contemporary creativity as tools for building peace through dialogue.

The theoretical case is made that nonviolent predispositions are positively related to the value types of universalism, benevolence, and conformity. Some empirical support for these relationships is provided, and recommendations are made for future research on nonviolent personality predispositions.

In order to create a peaceful world, we must learn to practice nonviolence with one another in our day-to-day interactions.

1. Harmony. Choosing not to engage in any form of gossip today contributes to harmony.
2. Friendliness.
3. Respect.
4. Generosity.
5. Listening.
6. Forgiveness.
7. Amends.
8. Praising.

The goal of nonviolent resistance is not to defeat anyone, but to create friendship and understanding. Instead of destroying the opponent, the nonviolent resister tries “to awaken a sense of moral shame… The end is redemption and reconciliation.

Forms of protest and/or civil disobedience included boycotts, such as the successful Montgomery bus boycott (1955–56) in Alabama, “sit-ins” such as the Greensboro sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina and successful Nashville sit-ins in Tennessee, mass marches, such as the 1963 Children’s Crusade in Birmingham and 1965 …

Martin Luther King. A major factor in the success of the movement was the strategy of protesting for equal rights without using violence. Civil rights leader Rev.

Tactics of nonviolent resistance, such as bus boycotts, Freedom Rides, sit-ins, marches, and mass demonstrations, were used during the Civil Rights Movement.

The point is that King was complicated. He swung from belief in the use of firearms for self-defense to believing in total nonviolence in seven years, from age 25 to 32.

In contrast, the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement chose the tactic of nonviolence as a tool to dismantle institutionalized racial segregation, discrimination, and inequality. Civil rights leaders had long understood that segregationists would go to any length to maintain their power and control over blacks.

Instead, they tend to succeed because nonviolent methods have a greater potential for eliciting mass participation — on average, they elicit about 11 times more participants than the average armed uprising — and because this is the source of major power shifts within the opponent regime.

When it comes to bringing about regime change and social change in general, there is no evidence that violence campaigns succeed more than nonviolent campaigns. In fact, contrary to popular belief, nonviolent campaigns are more effective than violent ones.