INTEGRATION OF THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE OF POLITICAL NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE INTO A GLOBAL POLITICAL FRAMEWORK

The article is devoted to nonviolent methods of political resistance and their significance for modern forms of political mobilization in the world. Special attention is paid to the ideas and methods of Mahatma Gandhi, which were implemented during Satyagraha in India. The success of Indian resistance to colonial authorities has inspired other political leaders to engage nonviolent resistance in their own political struggles. Indian experience has been integrated into the global political framework by Martin Luther King and the African American civil rights movement in the United States, Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid movement, the XIV Dalai Lama in defending the rights and interests of Tibet as part of the People's Republic of China. The works devoted to nonviolent political movements and their methodology by Roberto Baldoli, Richard Gregg, Shan Scalmer, Robert Thurman, as well as the ideologists of political movements in the Republic of South Africa, the United States and Tibet became the source base of the study. General scientific methods and special methods of postcolonial theory were used in the article. As a result of the study, the effectiveness of nonviolent methods of political resistance at various stages of the fight for human rights, the right for self-determination or political freedoms was shown. This effectiveness is due to the following features common to all the movements under consideration: mass character, moral, cultural or religious ideological basis, peaceful ways of struggle (boycotts, demonstrations, strikes, civil disobedience), moral and social pressure on the authorities.

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Baltic Journal of Legal and Social Sciences
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2025-06-11
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https://doi.org/10.30525/2592-8813-2025-2-27
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Indian History and Philosophy
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INTEGRATION OF THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE OF POLITICAL NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE INTO A GLOBAL POLITICAL FRAMEWORK

Iryna Petlenko
Baltic Journal of Legal and Social Sciences
Indian History and Philosophy
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INTEGRATION OF THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE OF POLITICAL NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE INTO A GLOBAL POLITICAL FRAMEWORK

Iryna Petlenko
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The article is devoted to nonviolent methods of political resistance and their significance for modern forms of political mobilization in the world. Special attention is paid to the ideas and methods of Mahatma Gandhi, which were implemented during Satyagraha in India. The success of Indian resistance to colonial authorities has inspired other political leaders to engage nonviolent resistance in their own political struggles. Indian experience has been integrated into the global political framework by Martin Luther King and the African American civil rights movement in the United States, Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid movement, the XIV Dalai Lama in defending the rights and interests of Tibet as part of the People's Republic of China. The works devoted to nonviolent political movements and their methodology by Roberto Baldoli, Richard Gregg, Shan Scalmer, Robert Thurman, as well as the ideologists of political movements in the Republic of South Africa, the United States and Tibet became the source base of the study. General scientific methods and special methods of postcolonial theory were used in the article. As a result of the study, the effectiveness of nonviolent methods of political resistance at various stages of the fight for human rights, the right for self-determination or political freedoms was shown. This effectiveness is due to the following features common to all the movements under consideration: mass character, moral, cultural or religious ideological basis, peaceful ways of struggle (boycotts, demonstrations, strikes, civil disobedience), moral and social pressure on the authorities.

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