The Pros And Cons Of Nonviolent Resistance

It always has been controversial if peaceful protest is the way to proving one’s point. Nonviolent resistance has been in effect for centuries. Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Danish resistance are all examples, but surely not the only people who have protested peacefully. Gene Sharp is known for his in-depth studies and writings on nonviolent resistance. Sharp’s theories have influenced anti-government resistance movements globally. Sharp believes that having a big, overbearing military means having more power. Power is an object of war that not all leaders can have without causing destruction. For example, if Hitler wouldn’t have let all of his power go to his head, he wouldn’t have tried to conquer every country …show more content…
If enough peaceful protestors participate, the movement is likely to cause inefficiency to the power they are fighting against. Methods of noncooperation tend to require the most people but not demand special training from its participants. Nonviolent noncooperation includes various types of strikes, such as general strike, industry strike, sit-down strike, industry strike, go-slow, and work-to-rule. One of the most recent strikes was the striking of state college professors, demanding to not teach their students until better conditions are met. The professors refused to teach students who are paying costs for classes, causing a frantic panic among boards to meet the needs of the professors before students began transferring to other schools. Various types of boycott, such as economic boycott, consumers’ boycott, traders’ boycott, rent refusal, international economic embargo, and social boycott, are also forms of nonviolent noncooperation. One of the most famous examples of boycott is the Boston Tea Party in 1773. The people of Boston boycotted the buying of tea, one of the biggest imports of the country. Also, the Bus Boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956 because of the segregation on buses is also a famous boycott. Other famous boycotts include the South Africans in 1985 as they boycotted the buying of the buying of products from white businesses until they were given better treatment. Various types of nonviolent political noncooperation are another method. Various types of nonviolent political noncooperation include a boycott of government employment, a boycott of elections, revenue refusal, civil disobedience, and mutiny. If a person participates in nonviolent political noncooperation, it can be as significant as Mahatma Gandhi’s movement after the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre by resisting British rule in India. Nonviolent noncooperation can also be something as