Promoting

By: Joyce B. Ramirez

Options in the Face of Violence

1 One is to do nothing about it.

2 Respond with violence

3 Respond nonviolently
What is Nonviolence?
Nonviolence or ahimsa is the refusal to do harm to other
humans as life is sacred and is an absolute value.
AKKAPKA or Aksyon para sa kapayapaan at Katarungan/ Action
for Peace and Justice(1987) defines it as “ a principle, a way of life or
tool for change that considers the human person as the highest created
value which must not destroyed”.
What are some Principle of Nonviolence?

Mohandas Gandhi

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Why Nonviolence?

1 It is both ethical and moral choice

2 Destruction is not the law of humans

3 Nonviolence is a practical choice

4 Nonviolence works