REPLY TO PROFESSOR SHARP.

The article presents the article author's reply in response to criticism of his article on "Nonviolent Action from a Social -Psychological Perspective." The author speaks to his three major points in the order in which he presented them. He agrees that a comprehensive scheme for the analysis of nonviolent direct action would include more than the focus on face-to-face interaction which he has taken. Concerning the application of existing social-psychological theories to the study of nonviolent direct action, he supposes that it would be fair to use any scheme, even if the original author did not have nonviolence in mind. The test of the theory would presumably be its power to organize the data and to suggest testable hypotheses concerning this type of interpersonal behavior. Critics suggests that in only a small number of the instances in which nonviolent action is used as an instrument of social change do the actors avow "love" for their opponents and seek to convert them. Thus the author's analysis of the ideology would not apply to most cases.