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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
non-violence
noun
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▪ At any rate, non-violence was on its way to becoming a political objective, not merely a moral one.
▪ I intend to show that marketing non-violence can be as profitable as the violence industry can be.
▪ It is the way in which ahi is implemented or put in action; it is the technique of non-violence.
▪ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi spearheaded the movement, which was largely peaceful, Gandhi being the apostle of non-violence.
▪ My goal to is to get kids to read books, and for kids to relate to a superhero that teaches non-violence.
▪ The problems posed by this view could be related to the question whether non-violence must always be the right way.
▪ Ultimately, planners adopted a policy of non-violence.
▪ When we look at this time, and its astonishing record of non-violence, we find ourselves asking several questions.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
non-violence

also nonviolence, 1831, from non- + violence. Gandhi used it from 1920.

Wiktionary
non-violence

n. (alternative spelling of nonviolence English)

Wikipedia
Non-Violence (sculpture)

Non-Violence is a bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd of an oversized Colt Python .357 Magnum revolver with a knotted barrel and the muzzle pointing upwards. Carl made this sculpture after singer-songwriter and peace activist John Lennon was murdered.

There are currently 16 copies of the sculpture around the world, ten of them in Sweden. They are placed in:

Location

City

Country

Bagers plats

Malmö

(original)

United Nations Headquarters

New York

(original)

European Commission

Kirchberg

(original)

Chaoyang Park

Beijing

Federal Chancellery

Berlin

Sergelgatan

Stockholm

Kungsportsavenyen

Gothenburg, SE-O

Outside Lilla Samskolan, Föreningsgatan, Gothenbourg, Västra Götaland, Sweden

Anna Lindh park

Borås, SE-O

Mémorial de Caen

Caen

Olympic Museum

Lausanne

Victoria & Alfred Waterfront

Cape Town

The Museum of Sketches

Lund, Malmö

Roslagsbanan station

Täby, Stockholm

Fittja metro station

Stockholm

Åkeshov metro station

Stockholm

Brogatan

Halmstad

Located in The Museum of Sketches in Lund, Sweden, is a sketch of the firearm where Reuterswärd has written that the grieving after Lennon and Bob Crane were murdered inspired him to design this artwork.

Since 1993, the sculpture is the symbol of The Non-Violence Project, a nonprofit organization, promoting social change with violence prevention education programs.

Usage examples of "non-violence".

That a breakaway group of nuns at her American-financed Pentecostal Mission school had preached Quakerish non-violence at her with heavy emphasis on turning the other cheek?