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What does pacifism mean?

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Noun
  1. The doctrine that disputes (especially between countries) should be settled without recourse to violence.
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The Second World War had proven both the untenability of absolute pacifism and the horrendous price war exacts as a way of resolving disputes.
The logic of this argument is that the only policy compatible with neutrality is absolute pacifism.
Nonresistant sects, notably Mennonites and Brethren, also developed active forms of pacifism such as humanitarian service for war victims.
The problems are enormous and complex, but outside of the just war tradition the only alternatives are either bellicism or pacifism.
Germany and Japan have, in some measure, sloughed off their post-1945 pacifism.
She became even more outspoken in her pacifism and support of conscientious objectors.

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