I think you touch upon an important aspect of the concept of non-violence here with the realization that ahimsa is not simply absence of violence, but something more positive and proactive than that.

While this can be uplifting on a personal level, it is slightly worrying in the broader perspective that—similar to how the Sanskrit word ahimsa is just the negation of the Sanskrit word for violence, himsa—none of the major languages in the world even have a word for non-violence.

The fact that the concept has been marginalized to the point of not even having a word which describes it, says a lot about human nature and our history on this planet.

Luckily the future is still in our hands.