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Greenpeace believes that violence in any form is morally wrong and accomplishes nothing. No one gets hurt during a Greenpeace non violent direct action because activists are fully trained prior to any direct action involvement.
Greenpeace did not invent NVDA. Earlier NVDA examples include the mass civil disobedience in India lead by Mahatma Gandhi and the lunch counter sit-ins of the US civil rights movement.
Greenpeace's philosophy draws on the Quaker tradition of bearing witness to raise awareness and bring public opinion to bear on decision makers. This has been strengthened by the practice of NVDA in global environmental campaigns.
