It came as President Pranab Mukherjee signed into law tough new legislation to counter violence against women.

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Launched in January 2012, the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project Teaching Respect for All aims to promote educational responses to counter discrimination and violence through strengthening the foundations of mutual tolerance, and cultivating respect for all people, regardless of colour, gender or national, ethnic or religious identity.

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But remember, while bonds of affection and empathy can help counter our tendency to violence, it will not be enough.

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These activists put this approach into practice, for example at the Brixton mosque in south London, by developing initiatives in the community to engage young people in discussions of foreign policy, identity and the meaning of religious terms like jihad, in order to counter those who advocate violence against fellow citizens.

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They were met by counter protesters but there was no violence and no arrests were made.

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Urging restraint and then seeing violence is obviously very counter to what we believe should be had.

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In 1969 the Chicago Seven, on trial for violently demonstrating against the violence of war, turned the courtroom into an agit-prop theatre, a commercial for the counter-culture of the time.

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