Buffers Between Peace and Violence

After reading a few posts, I looked more into an article on the Franz Fanon's view on violence against injustice. I believe that these controversial ideas were brought about by the harsh extremeness of the times, and the lack of systems for the people.  Before colonialism, most major revolutions, that brought about good change, were actually achieved through radical uprisings and violence.  Ironically, this violence was able to bring about a more just world, as it did during the French Revolution.  With this prior knowledge, his belief in necessary violence is not surprising.  Although I too do not believe that violence should be the path to freedom, we have to take into account the differences between our society today and the times he lived in.  Currently, we have many established organizations and systems, such as the United Nations and our government, that help maintain the peace.  What I mean to say is that we have the means to bring about change in a civil way; we just have to work the system.  In order to more fully understand his position, we must realize that his society was completely different from ours.  He lived in a time where there were no systems to work, no means to help the people's voice be heard, and consequently no buffers between peace and violence; just two distinct groups - the oppressors and the oppressed.