ABSTRACT
Civilian Defence is one of the necessary forms of collective self-limitation. Civilian Defence would be a consequence of the realization that the limits of tolerable military escalation have been not only reached, but even surpassed. It is necessary to examine its conditions in a deductive way in order to reach a minimum consensus among all of the adherents of the Civilian Defence concept, irrespective of their sociological positions. There are social and personal conditions of Civilian Defence. The social structures must be worth defending, and they must be structured in away that they can be defended non-violently. The social and personal conditions of Civilian Defence reinforce each other: social justice and solidarity with all human beings, participation and group solidarity, decentralization as well as civil and moral courage.
