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Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama is wrong in saying that nonviolence is a passive move of doing nothing

Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama is wrong in saying that nonviolence is a passive move of doing nothing

US President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize while ‘justifying the deployment of 30,000 more troops to the “graveyard of empires”.’ Obama’s acceptance speech was used as a rationale to deliver a ‘lengthy defense of the “just war” theory and dismiss the idea that nonviolence is capable of addressing the world’s [...]