They employ nonviolent resistance tactics such as: information warfare, picketing, marches, vigils, leafletting, samizdat, magnitizdat, satyagraha, protest art, protest music and poetry, community education and consciousness raising, lobbying, tax resistance, civil disobedience, boycotts or sanctions, legal/diplomatic wrestling, Underground Railroads, principled refusal of awards/honors, and general strikes. Many movements which promote philosophies of nonviolence or pacifism have pragmatically adopted the methods of nonviolent action as an effective way to achieve social or political goals. Information on non-violent resistance in one country could significantly affect non-violent activism in other countries. Research shows that non-violent campaigns diffuse spatially. Recently, nonviolent resistance has led to the Rose Revolution in Georgia. The Singing Revolution in Baltic states led to the Dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. From 1966 to 1999, nonviolent civic resistance played a critical role in fifty of sixty-seven transitions from authoritarianism. Other prominent advocates include Henry David Thoreau, Charles Stewart Parnell, Te Whiti o Rongomai, Tohu Kākahi, Leo Tolstoy, Alice Paul, Martin Luther King Jr., Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, James Bevel, Václav Havel, Andrei Sakharov, Lech Wałęsa, Gene Sharp, Nelson Mandela, Jose Rizal, and many others. Mahatma Gandhi is the most popular figure related to this type of protest United Nations celebrates Gandhi's birthday, October 2, as the International Day of Non-Violence.
Lang argues the violent resistance by citizens being forcibly relocated to detentions, short of the use of lethal violence against representatives of the state, could plausibly count as civil disobedience but could not count as nonviolent resistance. According to Lang, civil disobedience need not be nonviolent, although the extent and intensity of the violence is limited by the non-revolutionary intentions of the persons engaging in civil disobedience. In contrast, political acts of nonviolent resistance can have revolutionary ends. Its efforts are typically directed at the disputing of particular laws or groups of laws while conceding the authority of the government responsible for them. Furthermore, civil disobedience is a form of political action which necessarily aims at reform, rather than revolution. Since acts of nonviolent political resistance need not satisfy any of these criteria, Lang argues that the two categories of action cannot be identified with one another. Berel Lang argues against the conflation of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience on the grounds that the necessary conditions for an act instancing civil disobedience are: (1) that the act violates the law, (2) that the act is performed intentionally, and (3) that the actor anticipates and willingly accepts punitive measures made on the part of the state against him in retaliation for the act. Each of these terms-nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience-has different connotations and commitments. Nonviolent resistance is largely but wrongly taken as synonymous with civil disobedience. This type of action highlights the desires of an individual or group that feels that something needs to change to improve the current condition of the resisting person or group. Nonviolent resistance ( NVR), or nonviolent action, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, while being nonviolent. A "No NATO" protester in Chicago, in front of police, 2012
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