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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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

• Partisan warfareCompared with: Civil resistance pursues opposition without the armed combat that defines partisan warfare.

• Anti-fascismCompared with: It offers an alternative to confrontational and militant anti-fascist tactics.

• Corsican nationalismCompared with: It contrasts with the armed tactics used by some Corsican separatist groups.

• NonresistanceCompared with: Unlike nonresistance, it actively confronts an opponent through protest, noncooperation, or intervention.

• Zapatista uprisingCompared with: The uprising’s armed opening contrasts with later strategies centered on civil resistance and autonomous organization.

• Black theologyCompared with: Debates over nonviolent resistance expose differing judgments about power and self-defense in liberation struggles.

• Basque conflictCompared with: It contrasts with ETA’s armed strategy and clarifies the difference between separatist aims and methods.

• Huey P. NewtonCompared with: Newton’s advocacy of armed self-defense contrasted with nonviolent civil-rights strategies.

• Riot controlCompared with: Its methods and aims differ from the violent disorder riot control addresses.

• Nathuram GodseCompared with: Godse used lethal violence against Gandhi, whose public politics centered on nonviolent resistance.

• Stokely CarmichaelCompared with: Carmichael’s movement politics increasingly challenged the centrality of nonviolence as a required strategy.

• The Wretched of the EarthCompared with: Its strategic and ethical premises differ from Fanon’s analysis of anticolonial violence.

• Assassination of Mahatma GandhiCompared with: Gandhi’s nonviolent method stood in stark opposition to the assassination’s political violence.

• Yigal AmirCompared with: It directly opposes the violent method Amir chose to resist government policy.

• Graphic violenceCompared with: It offers an ethical and practical alternative to the harm represented in violent imagery.

• ApoliticismCompared with: It demonstrates that rejecting conventional politics can still involve active political opposition.

• Conflict in the Niger DeltaCompared with: MOSOP’s early campaign contrasts with later armed attacks on oil infrastructure.

• Saul AlinskyCompared with: Alinsky used nonviolent tactics, but emphasized strategic pressure rather than moral witness as the central lever.