nonviolence

nonviolence
    n 1: peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing
         to cooperate [syn: {passive resistance}, {nonviolent
         resistance}, {nonviolence}]
    

nonviolence \nonviolence\ n.
   The theory, doctrine, or practice of peaceful resistance to a
   government by fasting or refusing to cooperate.

   Syn: passive resistance.
        [WordNet 1.5]
    

91 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonviolence":
      a wise passiveness, abnegation, abstinence, calm, calmness,
      conservatism, constraint, contemplation, contemplative life,
      continence, control, cool, dispassion, do-nothing policy,
      do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, evenness, gentleness,
      golden mean, happy medium, idleness, immobility, impartiality,
      inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, irenicism,
      judiciousness, juste-milieu, laissez-aller, laissez-faire,
      laissez-faireism, lenity, meden agan, meditation, middle way,
      mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, neutralism,
      neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation,
      nonresistance, nonviolent resistance, nothing in excess, pacifism,
      paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation,
      passiveness, passivism, passivity, peaceableness,
      peaceful coexistence, policy, procrastination, prudence,
      quiescence, quietism, repose, restraint, self-abnegation,
      self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, sobriety,
      stability, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, steadiness,
      temperance, temperateness, tranquillity, unexcessiveness,
      unextravagance, unextremeness, unpugnaciousness, vegetation,
      via media, vita contemplativa, waiting game,
      watching and waiting