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The 126 pages that link to Nonviolent resistance, each with the reason it gives.

• Civil Rights MovementRelated: Many campaigns used it to expose injustice and build public pressure.

• Civil disobedienceNarrower topic: Civil disobedience is one way nonviolent resistance confronts unjust authority.

• AuthoritarianismCompared with: It offers a strategy for contesting authoritarian rule without armed force.

• Guerrilla warfareCompared with: It pursues political pressure without the armed attacks characteristic of guerrilla warfare.

• Martin Luther King Jr.Narrower topic: King treated nonviolence as both a practical method and a moral commitment.

• Collective actionRelated: It shows how coordinated nonviolent participation can contest political power.

• Arab SpringNarrower topic: Many early demonstrations relied on marches, strikes, and other forms of nonviolent pressure.

• Just war theoryCompared with: It offers a practical alternative to armed force that just-war criteria regulate rather than require.

• Carnation RevolutionCompared with: The uprising was largely peaceful, but it was a military coup involving armed forces.

• PacifismRelated: Pacifist ideas have informed campaigns that confront authority without armed struggle.

• Self-defenseCompared with: It offers a principled alternative to using violence, though immediate threats can pose different dilemmas.

• Direct actionRelated: It supplies a strategic repertoire for confronting institutions while limiting physical harm.

• Political violenceCompared with: It pursues political change through coercive pressure while rejecting physical force.

• InsurgencyRelated: It can challenge the same political order through strikes, boycotts, and other nonviolent tactics.

• Black nationalismCompared with: Debates over nonviolence and self-defense have divided nationalist movements and their allies.

• Conscientious objectionRelated: Some objectors extend personal refusal into organized, nonviolent opposition.

• Frantz FanonCompared with: It contrasts with Fanon’s argument that colonial violence can make counterviolence part of decolonization.

• Anti-apartheid movementNarrower topic: It describes a major repertoire of protest, though resistance also included armed struggle.

• People Power RevolutionNarrower topic: The uprising’s civilian presence and restraint helped deter a violent crackdown.

• Montgomery bus boycottRelated: The boycott demonstrated how sustained economic noncooperation could challenge segregation.

• Orange RevolutionNarrower topic: The movement relied on demonstrations, strikes, and public noncooperation rather than armed revolt.

• Sermon on the MountRelated: Teachings such as turning the other cheek have inspired Christian nonviolent movements.

• HIV/AIDS activismRelated: It provides a broader framework for understanding many AIDS protest tactics.

• Propaganda of the deedCompared with: It also seeks to communicate through action, but rejects violence as its means.

• Bayard RustinNarrower topic: Rustin treated nonviolence as both a moral commitment and a practical discipline for organizing.

• Non-cooperation movementNarrower topic: Gandhi framed non-cooperation as a disciplined form of nonviolent resistance.

• April RevolutionNarrower topic: The uprising illustrates how sustained public protest can force a ruler from office.

• AggressionCompared with: It shows how forceful opposition can pursue conflict goals without aggressive harm.

• Anti-colonialismCompared with: It contrasts with anti-colonial movements that treated armed struggle as necessary.

• Peaceful RevolutionNarrower topic: The movement is a major historical case of mass nonviolent resistance.

• Salt MarchRelated: The march’s public discipline depended on resisting retaliation despite likely repression.

• Anti-war movementRelated: Nonviolent methods have enabled anti-war campaigns to mobilize beyond committed pacifists.

• NonviolenceBroader topic: It is the organized form of nonviolent struggle, using protest, noncooperation, and intervention.

• Peace movementRelated: Peace campaigns use nonviolent resistance to oppose war and challenge policies that sustain it.

• RebellionCompared with: Some rebellions rely on nonviolent pressure rather than armed force.

• Social reformRelated: Reform movements may use strikes, boycotts, or civil disobedience to demand institutional change.

• 8888 UprisingNarrower topic: The uprising relied heavily on demonstrations, strikes, and public assembly.

• Cesar ChavezRelated: Chavez presented nonviolence as both a moral commitment and a practical organizing discipline.

• Ella BakerRelated: Baker supported nonviolent direct action as a means of challenging segregation and mobilizing communities.

• John HumeCompared with: Hume’s electoral and negotiating strategy opposed the use of violence to achieve political aims.

• MilitarismCompared with: It demonstrates a strategy for political power that does not depend on armed force.

• Rose RevolutionRelated: The opposition combined street demonstrations with pressure on state institutions.

• Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceNarrower topic: The conference made nonviolent action the guiding method of its campaigns.

• Defiance CampaignNarrower topic: Organizers made disciplined nonviolence the campaign’s defining method.

• Desmond TutuRelated: Tutu advocated peaceful protest while condemning the violence and injustice of apartheid.

• JihadismCompared with: Nonviolent Islamic activism offers a direct contrast to jihadism's advocacy of armed struggle.

• Joan BaezNarrower topic: It guided Baez’s protest work, from civil disobedience to opposition to war.

• Madres de Plaza de MayoNarrower topic: The mothers used persistent public presence rather than armed action to challenge the dictatorship.

• People's WarCompared with: It pursues political transformation without making armed struggle its strategic foundation.

• Resistance movementBroader topic: Nonviolent campaigns can withdraw cooperation without relying on armed force.