"pacifism" značenje u engleski leksikon

Množina: pacifisms

1. The belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration.
2. The doctrine that all violence in unjustifiable; SYN. passivism.
Belief that violence, even in self-defense, is unjustifiable under any conditions and that arbitration is preferable to war as a means of solving disputes. In the East, pacifism has roots in Buddhism, and nonviolent action (see nonviolence) was used by Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for Indian independence.