counterviolence

counterviolence

(ˈkaʊntəˌvaɪələns)
n
the retaliatory use of violence
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The potential risk of repression and counterviolence was noted, and the government called upon the populace to prepare itself for such eventualities.
Building a stay-behind resistance organization: the case of cold war Switzerland against the Soviet Union
The rest of the chapter discusses how students "lost their claim to the legacy of counterviolence as political strategy" (p.
Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia
Fanon noted the legitimacy and cleansing and practical roles of revolutionary counterviolence for victims of Caucasian racism (Hansen, 1996, 8-12).
The domain of psychological restoration: reparations down payments for the defeat of mentacide, transcendence of psychological misorientation, and the mental overturning of a terminated people via returning to the African personality
It was made clear that counterviolence and passivity are not the only responses to violence, and that ANV can be an effective response.
The nonviolent revolution
Such violence almost always fails to achieve its objectives, and only ignites a wider cycle of counterviolence that has resulted in the deterioration and destruction that define our societies today.
A vocabulary of violence rules our area
Contrasting with the nonviolence of Jesus was the violence of the Roman occupation of Palestine and the counterviolence of Jewish revolutionaries.
Jesus Christ, Peacemaker: A New Theology of Peace
A readiness to resort to violence necessarily carries a risk of hurt and harm to the perpetrator as well as the target of the violence, in that violence may foment a spiral of counterviolence of defense or revenge.
Conflict transformation: the East China Sea dispute and lessons from the Ecuador-Peru border dispute
On this assumption the only response possible for protecting oneself from immeasurable harm is unconditional counterviolence (188).
Hans G. Kippenberg, Violence as Worship: Religious Wars in the Age of Globalization
But in a morally responsible political choice to launch or continue a violent foreign initiative, its provocation of counterviolence that kills and maims civilians has to be taken into account.
The ethics of America's Afghan war
The final and surprising chapter on Camus argues intriguingly that the confession of Clamence, the hero of La Chute, "illustrates Baudelaire's strategy of irony as counterviolence, for it is at once a symptom and a critique of terror" (182).
Sanyal, Debarati. The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Poetics of Form
It says the spread of slums inside and around the Egyptian capital and an increase in drug abuse have had a destructive effect in this society, leading to a rise in violence and counterviolence everywhere.
The risk is on the rise
Notice the terms employed by Daniel Berrigan in his autobiography for describing his gradual commitment to non-violence: "When the offended party yields to contempt and counterviolence, I came to understand, both sides are demeaned, no light is shed, wounds are exacerbated.
La palabra se hizo carne: derecho, literatura y sensibilidad etica en El juicio de los nueve de Catonsville de Daniel Berrigan
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