Voluntary Simplicity, Patient Persistence, Open Friendliness, Respect for Freedom and Equality and education

1. Factors that influence
Non- violence.
M.VIJAYALAKSHMI
Assistant Professor

2. Factors that influence non- violence.
• Nonviolence is a philosophy or principle that
can inform anyone’s actions, anywhere at any
time.
• Nonviolence is an effective way of dealing
with conflict which needs thought,
resourcefulness, vision, planning, patience
and commitment.

3. • In a world where the currently prevailing
systems are caught in the arm lock of
violence, nonviolence can’t offer instant
remedies or results.
• However, it is catching on.
• Most people reject violence and killing.

4. • People who are ready to kill and who actively
seek out violence are in fact very small.
• Nonviolence doesn’t deny the existence of
conflict -conflict of one kind or another will
probably always be present in human society
-but it does assert that no conflict need be
dealt with using violence and armed force,
ever.

5. • The aim of its supporters, therefore, is the
dismantling of the power structures, military
systems (including arms manufacture), and
economic networks (including the arms
trade) that make violence and war an option
at all.
• Nonviolence begins by learning how to be
less violent and more compassionate with
ourselves.

6. • We learn by building the courage to speak
and act with a respect, honor and reverence
tor our own being.
• Hence, nonviolence can be influenced by
Voluntary Simplicity, Patient Persistence,
Open Friendliness, Respect for Freedom and
Equality and education.

7. Voluntary Simplicity
• To simplify is to invite peacefulness.
Voluntary simplicity of living has been
advocated and practiced by the founders of
most of the great religion: Buddha, Lao Tse,
Moses, Mohammed and Gandhi.
• Our present ‘mental climate’ is not favorable
either for a clear understanding of the value
of simplicity or for its practice.

8. • Simplicity is a relative matter, depending on
climate, customs, culture, the character of
the individual.
• Voluntary simplicity involves both inner and
outer condition.
• It means singleness of purpose, sincerity and
honesty within, as well as avoidance of
exterior clutter, of many possessions
irrelevant to the chief purpose of life.

9. • It means simplicity can be attained by
an ordering and guiding of our energy
and our desires in some directions in
order to secure greater abundance of
life.
• It just involves a deliberate organization
of life for a purpose.

10. Patient Persistence
• Nonviolent activist Jim Douglass referred
patience as a 'revolutionary virtue ’ Patience
is not an excuse for not acting, but rather a
quality that helps us to endure and persist in
our efforts while proceeding in a cairn and
intelligent manner.
• When we are caught up in action, the
emotions are often very active and
sometimes turbulent.

11. • So, we must not react without thinking
very carefully about what we are doing
and what the consequences are likely to
be.
• Patience gives us time for deliberation
and reflection on the issues and how
our actions can be both nonviolent and
yet effective.

12. • It is better to wait and perhaps miss a
small opportunity of the moment than
to rush into something foolishly or
unprepared.
• New opportunities always come
forward. If we think out the situation
and how we can best deal with it, the
next time it occurs we will be ready to
act in a good way.

13. • Unlike military action which strikes quickly
and ruthlessly, nonviolent action is slow and
deliberate with ample warning given to the
opponents so that they can consciously
decide how they wish to meet our
confrontation.
• Military methods are quick and destructive
like fire, but nonviolent action is flowing and
nurturing like water that nourishes growing
things.

14. • We do not want our opponents to
have to react quickly with
instinctive reflexes.
• We want them to know us and our
methods so that they can respond
as calmly and as intelligently as
possible.

15. Open Friendliness
• The way of nonviolence is open to the flow of
love which may come from any direction.
• To love completely is to be open to the whole
universe and everyone in it, both in receiving
from others and in giving love to others.
• True love is universal, not just for one other
person.

16. • By being open and friendly to everyone we
can better understand them and their
concerns, and they will be more likely to
listen to ours as well.
• The way of love can treat the whole world as
one big happy family.
• In this way we do not close ourselves oft
from anyone or any viewpoint.
• Cultural differences should not separate us
from each other, but rather cultural diversity
brings a collective strength that can benefit
all of humanity.

17. • Friendliness is a good feeling that we share
with others.
• When our hearts are open, we do not
discriminate between people but share our
good feelings with everyone equally.
• In the nonviolent movement we have to be
friendly toward each other; at the same time
we have to try to be equally friendly toward
our opponents.

18. • As human beings they are just as important
as we are, and we need to understand them
even more than people who agree with us.
• What the world needs more than anything
else is more love and friendship, and this is
something that each of us can contribute in
our daily lives.
• Love and open friendliness must spring from
the actions of teachers in their classrooms.

19. Respect for Freedom and Equality
• The way of love is also the way of freedom,
because no one but ourselves directs us how
to express our love.
• This is another contrast to military
authoritarianism in which individuals must
take orders from superiors.

20. • In the nonviolent movement we are all free
and equal, each listening to our own inner
guidance and sharing our concerns with the
group.
• Then the group can freely decide, based on
all individuals’ considerations, how the group
wishes to act.

21. • Thus first we must recognize our own
freedom of choice and equal right to
participate.
• Even more important is that we should
realize the equality of all human beings and
respect the liberty of others just as we want
our own freedom respected.

22. • The nonviolent way of love is not possessive
of others nor does it attempt to control
others or use force against them.
• Nonviolent protests do not hurt people;
although they may cause them some
inconvenience in going about the business
which we believe is harmful.

23. • In doing this we attempt to treat these
people as our equals and respect them as
individuals.
• In this sense, teachers’ actions should have
direct communication with students concern
for their well-being.
• A dynamic and vital atmosphere can develop
when teachers are given the freedom,
respect and equal opportunity' tor all
students in the class room.

24. Courageous Compassion
• Compassion is love in action and is willing to
take on the suffering of others in order to
redeem them and those who are doing
wrong to them.
• In compassion we would progress beyond
anger and hate of those who are doing wrong
through pity and into mercy and caring and
healing.

25. • Compassion comes from an experience
of oneness with others which expands
our hearts so that we feel what people
are suffering and are moved to help
them.
• The truly courageous are not afraid of
the opponents and therefore need no
weapon at all.

26. • Does it take more courage to go into
battle hiding behind armor and using a
gun to kill anyone who appears
threatening or to walk with dignity
unarmed and unafraid into the conflict?
• Thus courage is measured by how much
we are able to overcome our fear and
do what we believe is best to do
anyway.

27. • Those who fight with weapons for what they
believe are more courageous than those who
passively accept injustice and allow
themselves to be controlled by those who are
threatening them.
• Yet the most courageous are those who stand
up to injustice and actively work to change it
by nonviolently intervening using purely
moral courage and no physical weapons for
defense.

28. Education
• Nonviolence is a holistic theory and practice
that rejects aggression and violence in order
to achieve goals and to resolve conflicts in a
constructive way.
• This evolving perspective of personal and
social empowerment is not about denying
anger but channeling the energy behind
anger into other strategies that are powerful
and respectful of others.

29. • It is a fact that we live in a world
with conflicts: war, torture, ethno-
cultural rivalries and violence.
• Against those problems there is a
slow but growing recognition of the
value of nonviolence to solve them.

30. • This fundamental human aspiration
developed as a comprehensive theory by
Mahatma Gandhi and he is identified in many
examples throughout history.
• Violence, from the mildest forms (insults,
rudeness) to the most appalling (rape,
murder, massacres, terrorism), strongly
permeates twenty-first century culture.

31. • The preventive action — UNESCO’s
mission to promote through education,
science and culture is still very far from
being fixed in people's minds and from
finding concrete expression.
• Education is therefore fundamental to
peace-building.

32. • Education tor peace, human rights and
democracy is inseparable from a style of
teaching that imparts to the young, and
the not so young, attitudes of dialogue
and non-violence —in other words, the
values of tolerance, openness to others
and sharing.

33. Sources are taken from
•Slidesharenet.com
•Web sources