variants:
or counter-violence
Definition of counterviolence
: violence committed in retaliation for violence
Violence is not so much a question of a single act that breaks a supposed continuum of nonviolence or peace. Rather, violence is best understood as a historical cycle of violence and counterviolence.— Simon Critchley
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The first known use of counterviolence was in 1839
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