Editing Transarmament (section)

{{Short description|Replacement of armed forces with infrastructure to support nonviolent resistance}}
'''Transarmament''' (closely related to [[civilian-based defense]]) is the partial or total replacement of [[armed forces]] with the physical and social infrastructure to support [[nonviolence|nonviolent]] resistance. [[Gene Sharp]] defined transarmament as "the process of changeover from a military-based defense policy to a [[civilian-based defense]] policy."<ref name="sharp97">[[Gene Sharp]] (1997). "Transarmament" (p. 534) in: Roger S. Powers, William B. Vogele, Christopher Kruegler, Ronald M. McCarthy (1997), ''Protest, power, and change: an encyclopedia of nonviolent action from ACT-UP to women's suffrage''. Taylor & Francis. {{ISBN|978-0-8153-0913-0}}</ref> Unlike [[disarmament]], "transarmament always involves the replacement of one means to provide defense with another" instead of the "simple reduction or abandonment of military capacity."<ref name="sharp97" />