counterviolence

(ˈkaʊntəˌvaɪələns)

the retaliatory use of violence

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Further violence and counterviolence is only becoming more likely whilst this poisonous and racist rhetoric continues.

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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 chapter on "Violence" presents a more careful analysis, introducing the notion of "student counterviolence" as a dynamic practice that solidifies and simultaneously disrupts students' moral superiority over the state.

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Fanon noted the legitimacy and cleansing and practical roles of revolutionary counterviolence for victims of Caucasian racism (Hansen, 1996, 8-12).

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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

Zomor referred to attacks by his group as "counterviolence, in response to regime violence.