.."growing recognition that the destructiveness of modern warfare makes successful military defense against attack a doubtful proposition has led many countries to explore the application of nonviolent struggle to national defense. “Civilian-based defense” — prepared non-cooperation and defiance by a trained civilian population and its institutions against invasion or internal takeovers — is now part of the platforms of at least seven political parties in the Netherlands, Norway, and Denmark. In West Germany, the Greens advocate “social defense,” and in Britain an “Alternative Defense Commission” has won respectful attention for a book focused in part on this policy. It should be clear from all this that the possibilities of nonviolent action in an often violent and dangerous world order are only beginning to become apparent." ref: vernalproject.org/papers/understanding/WhyNV/WhyNonviolence4.html
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 04:49:24 +0000
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