Redemptive violence
Redemptive violence  is defined as a belief that "violence is a useful mechanism for control and order", or, alternately, a belief in "using violence to rid and save the world from evil". The French Revolution involved violence that was depicted as redemptive by revolutionaries, and decolonization theorist Frantz Fanon was an advocate of redemptive violence. Pacifism rejects the idea that violence can be redemptive.