Methods of Nonviolence
Formal statements
- Public Speeches
- Letters of Opposition or Support
- Declarations
- Group or mass petitions
Communicating with a Wider Audience
- Banners, posters, and displayed communications
- Leaflets, pamphlets, and books
- Media
Group Presentations
- Mock awards and elections
- Group lobbying
- Picketing
- Vigils
Symbolic Public Acts
- Wearing of symbols
- Prayer and worship
- Symbolic reclamations
Drama and Music
- Performances of plays and music
- Singing
Processions
- Marches and parades
- Religious processions
- Pilgrimages
Honoring the Dead
- Political mourning
- Demonstrative funerals
- Homage at burial places
Withdrawal and Renunciation
- Walk-outs
- Silence
- Renouncing honors
- Turning one's back
Methods of Social Noncooperation
- Student strike
- Social disobedience
- Withdrawal from social institutions
- "Flight" of workers
- Collective disappearance
Methods of Economic Noncooperation/Intervention
- Boycott
- Refusal to let or sell property
- Lockout
- Refusal of industrial assistance
- Embargo
- Strike
- Preclusive purchasing
- Supporting alternative markets
Methods of Political Noncooperation
Rejecting of Authority
- Withdrawal or withholding of allegiance
- Refusal of public support
- Literature and speeches advocating
resistance
Citizen Noncooperation with Government
- Boycott of government supported institutions and elections
- Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents
- Refusal to accept appointed officials
Citizen Alternatives to Obedience
- Reluctant and slow compliance
- Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision
- Popular nonobedience
Methods of Nonviolent Intervention
Psychological Intervention
- Fast / Hunger Strike
Physical Intervention
- Sit-in
- Mock "die"-in
- Nonviolent occupation
Original list published by the Albert Einstein Institute.
Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
UN Office for Disarmament Affairs
UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS)
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)