Before you claim 'dishonesty', you might want to spend 30 seconds on reading about the origins of the term. NVC was firmly rooted in mediating between rioting

Before you claim 'dishonesty', you might want to spend 30 seconds on reading about the origins of the term. NVC was firmly rooted in mediating between rioting students and college administrators. The explicit goal of it was to foster non-violent desegregation. (And if you look at e.g. Kent State, that was a very necessary goal)