ABSTRACT
This chapter examines their religious teachings of non-violence and analyzes the extent to which their non-violent thinking (as a strategy to achieve peace) was successful in practice. It focuses on the similarities in understanding the concept of non-violence by all three thinkers and some of their actions that transformed the lives of millions of their followers. Non-violence did not only mean the absence of war for these three thinkers; it meant giving people the opportunity to live together in peaceful coexistence through the creation of diverse communities that tolerated individual differences. Nonviolent Action, Gene Sharp, one of the most prominent scholars on non-violence in peace studies defines it in the following way: He also outlines nine types of non-violence. Peace is an ultimate goal for a person or a society; it can be achieved through an applied commitment to non-violence.
