Case Rate The number of reported cases of a specific disease per 100,000 population in a given year. Cause-Specific Death Rate The number of deaths attributable to a specific cause per 100,000 population in a given year. D -. Death Rate (or crude death rate) The number of deaths per 1,000 population in a given year. Demographic Transition The historical shift of birth and death rates from high to low levels in a population.
pacifism. 1  opposition to war or violence of any kind. 2  refusal to engage in military activity because of one's principles or beliefs. 3  the principle or policy that all differences among nations should be adjusted without recourse to war.
In defiance, African American activists adopted a combined strategy of direct action, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, and many events described as civil disobedience, giving rise to the African-American Civil Rights Movement of 1954â1968.uring the time period considered to be the African-American Civil Rights era, the predominant use of protest was nonviolent, or peaceful. Often referred to as pacifism, the method of nonviolence is considered to be an attempt to impact society positively.