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...of the government and itssmilitary forces.sThe removal of particular persons and cliques from thesgovernment positions most likely will merely make it possible for anothersgroup to take their place. (=-=Sharp, 2002-=-, p. 5)sSharp feels that, unless the dictatorial power structure is changed to a more democraticallysoriented power structure, the stage is set for another tyrannical group to simply take thesplace of...

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...aining from unleashing some real measure ofsits potential violence, or the active presence of some counterbalancing violence of preciselysthe sort pacifism professes to reject as a political option” (=-=Churchill, 1998-=-, p. 44).sHisscontention is that all nonviolent resistance must necessarily result in one of two outcomes:s“1.)sTo render themselves perpetually ineffectual (and consequently unthreatening) in thesfac...

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...acts of torture perpetrated by their government (Deats, n.d.), andsthe Argentinean women who courageously and peacefully protested the illegitimate acts ofskidnapping perpetrated by their government (=-=Ruddick, 1989-=-, p. 226).sAny overview of nonviolent struggles, however brief, seems incomplete without somesmention of the paradigm examples of the nonviolent movements headed by MahatmasGandhi, on behalf of his fe...