Are Peace and Non-Violence Outdated Concepts?

Non-violence is not a subject to practice, in theory or in practice, it is all-timely. Non-violence is weapon to conquer upon hatred. It is encouraged to man to respond to the violent by non-violence. Non-violence is the first human value. As M. K. GANDHI STATED- "whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love. ".

Considering the present scenario, I feel that these values are not inculcated in young minds and not given much importance. School kids fight and we see senior people yell at each other. It's been quite a common thing that we all encounter in our daily life. How to eradicate this. ? Simple. , just teach school children, the importance of peace and non-violence factors. They are the pivotal values that every single individual should possess to lead a peaceful good life.

Peace and non violence are now no more than just in there practical life. A peace man is today called a meek or a coward. Actually these values don't even work well now a days.

Peace and non-violence are still very relevant.. countries in the world still engage in peaceful demonstrations, boycotts name them...and it working. I think this only calls for patience and strategy.Fighting to acquire what people need currently in the very hostile environment does not mean peace and non violence would not work....i believe that it is the change of strategy to adapt to the changing environment.

Well I think when it comes to your home your personal matters your state. Things can be sought out by peace and non violence. Corruption is that which we have created our ministers have created and it can be dealt by peace and non violence. But I must state everything can't be achieve by alone peace and nonviolence. There are things situations where we have to fight where we have to be violent and it is not at all wrong if we are fighting for something good. If these terrorist are attacking us we must attack them too, here peace and violence fails.

If the other community or country is violent then we have to be violent. Even if you are talking about our country past that because of "only" Gandhi ji and his non violence and peace activities we got independence. I am sorry whosoever stated this was not exactly correct. Our revolutionaries who shed their blood for us for our country not Gandhi ji. They were the people who never died but sacrificed their life for us. They were the real heroes behind our independence. At the end I must contribute that peace and non violence can't work everywhere we have to be violent for the violent terms.

Dear friends I don't think that peace & non-violence can ever be outdated concepts.

You may have observed it yourself that if we put up our views peacefully & talk politely.

It really makes some difference, rather than we waste our time in shouting & fighting.

Even the rudest person in this world will listen to you and try to understand what you are saying if you are non-violent n peaceful. Everyone will enjoy your company & would like to talk to you.

Although in the present scenario with so much destruction &unrest it sometimes appears that these terms are forgotten, but trust me friends in the end you will come back to this place only.

To resolve matters, one must have a clear mind. If a meeting aimed at solving an issue is held, and we approach it with a hot headed attitude, obviously the expected results cannot be attained. Human beings have the ability to think and reason with others. I believe that a peaceful mind is necessary for one to reach a sensible conclusion, one that is not cluttered or affected by thoughts of violence. Decisions taken under the influence may solve an issue temporarily but it may lead to greater problems in the future. A decision taken after careful contemplation and logical reasoning will surely have a positive impact. But there are people in this world, who are too stubborn to reason, or to sit down at a table and discuss matters peacefully, I would suggest the path of peace to them, but if that doesn't work, I bet a strong hand is what it takes to bring such people to understand. Let me quote, "An eye for an eye, makes the whole world blind", So, I don't believe that non violence can always bring a solution to a problem, but as my friends said above, if you can't deal it with any other way, this is the way you have to choose.

Peace is a great thing in the life of any man but again violence is also becoming a routine with mankind! For uneducated and the poor peace always comes with a price and be sure the there is no meaning that peace and nonviolence will ever co exist !

There are many good things present in big amount as compared to worst things in this world, and a single positive thought is greater and powerful as compaired to negative thought. This shows peace and non violence is still there.

Hello friends!. This is Manthan and I have just completed my 12th. According to me peace and non violence can never be outdated but violence also can never be eradicated. Because in today world, there some things which can be solved only by non violent and peaceful means but sometimes the person or community with whom you are treating may not believe in the same concepts and so at those time you have to use violent means instead of peace and nonviolence.

So one cannot only stick to peace and non violent concept instead everyone should react according to the situation as nobles and ideals may sometime don't work as you have thought. Many of my friends here gave the example of Gandhiji but no one seen the blood shedded because of that, so our approach to the problems depends on the nature of problems. So my conclusion is peace and non violence are not outdated but also not the must do concept.