List of anti-war organizations
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In order to facilitate organized, determined, and principled opposition to war, peace-centered activists have often founded anti-war organizations. These groups range from temporary coalitions which address one war or pending war, to more permanent structured organizations which work to end the concept of war and the factors which lead to large-scale destructive conflicts. The overwhelming majority do so in a nonviolent manner. The following list of anti-war organizations highlights past and present anti-war groups from across the world.
Contents
Society of Peace
International
- Christian Peacemaker Teams
- Darthmouth Conferences
- Hands Off the People of Iran
- Heavenly Culture World Peace Restoration of Light (HWPL)
- Institute for Economics and Peace
- International Campaign Against Aggression on Iraq
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
- International Campaign to Ban Landmines
- International Fellowship of Reconciliation
- International Peace Bureau
- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- Mondpaca Esperantista Movado World Peace Esperanto Movement
- Nobel Women's Initiative organized by female Nobel Peace Prize winners
- Nonviolent Peaceforce
- Peace One Day
- Peace Brigades International
- Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
- Students for Justice in Palestine
- The Non-Violence Project
- War Resisters' International
- World Peace Council
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace
Africa
- Anti-War Coalition
- Committee on South African War Resistance
- End Conscription Campaign
- Koeberg Alert
Asia
Europe
- Association de la Paix par le Droit[1][2]
- Austrian Society of Friends of Peace (German: Oesterreichische Gesellschaft der Friedensfreunde)[3]
- Center for Antiwar Action - Serbia[4]
- Dansk Fredsforening - Denmark[5]
- German Peace Society
- Irish Peace Society[5]
- International League of Peace[1]
- League of Peace and Freedom[1]
- Norwegian Peace Association (Norwegian: Norges Fredslag)[6]
- Società per la pace e la giustizia internazionale - Italy[6][7]
- Societe suisse de la paix - Switzerland[6]
- Soviet Peace Committee – Soviet era State controlled organization
- Stop the War Committee – opposed the Second Boer war
- Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society[6]
- Vrede door Recht (Peace through Law) - Netherlands[6]
France
- Movement for a Non-violent Alternative (in French)
- Societe Gratry de la paix[1]
- Peace Through Law Association
- Union pacifiste de France (in French)
United Kingdom
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
- Church of England Peace League[8]
- Committee of 100
- Direct Action Committee
- Liverpool and Birkenhead Women's Peace and Arbitration Association[8]
- Military Families Against the War
- No Conscription Fellowship
- Peace Pledge Union[9]
- Peace Society[8]
- Rationalist Peace Society - Britain[8][10]
- School Students Against War
- Stop the War Coalition
- Spies for Peace
- Workman's Peace Association - Britain[6]
North America
United States
- America First Committee – opposed American entry into the Second World War
- American League Against War and Fascism
- American Peace Mobilization
- American Peace Society
- American Women for Peace[11][12]
- A.N.S.W.E.R. (also known as International ANSWER and ANSWER Coalition)
- Another Mother For Peace[12]
- Anti-War Committee
- Antiwar.com
- Association for Muslims of United States[13]
- Campus Antiwar Network
- Committee for Non-Violent Action (later merged with the War Resisters League)
- Committee for Nonviolent Revolution
- Center on Conscience & War (formerly known as NISBCO)
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
- Council for a Livable World
- The Council for National Interest
- Code Pink: Women for Peace
- Common Dreams
- ChildVoice International
- Direct Action to Stop the War
- GI Rights Network
- Gold Star Families for Peace
- Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Iraq Peace Action Coalition
- LewRockwell.com
- Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
- Military Families Speak Out opposed to war in Iraq
- Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
- National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund
- National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam
- National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
- National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
- New York Peace Society – first peace society in U.S., opposed 19th and 20th century wars
- No Conscription League
- Not in Our Name
- Peace Action
- Peace and Freedom Party
- People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace – anti-World War I group
- Port Militarization Resistance
- Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice[12]
- September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
- Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
- Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization)
- Syracuse Peace Council
- The Buffalo Nine
- The World Can't Wait
- Troops Out Now Coalition
- United for Peace and Justice
- Veterans for Peace
- Vietnam Day Committee
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War
- War Resisters League
- Women Against Military Madness[12][14]
- Women Strike for Peace[12]
- Women's Peace Party[12]
- Women's Peace Society[12]
- Women's Peace Union[12]
- Youth International Party (Yippies)
Canada
- Canadian Peace Alliance
- Canadian Peace Congress
- Ceasefire Canada
- Nova Scotia Voice of Women
- War Resisters Support Campaign
Oceania
Religious
Christian
- American Friends Service Committee
- Anglican Pacifist Fellowship
- Catholic Association for International Peace
- Catholic Worker Movement
- Christian Peace Conference
- Episcopal Peace Fellowship
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Friends Committee on National Legislation
- International Catholic Peace League
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship
- Mennonite Central Committee
- Methodist Peace Fellowship
- Order of Maximilian, anti-Vietnam war organization
- Pax Christi[15]
- Pentecostal Charismatic Peace Fellowship
- Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
Buddhist
See also
- List of peace activists
- Anti-nuclear organizations
- Anti-war movement
- Direct action
- Gandhi Peace Award
- Gandhi Peace Prize
- Global Peace Index
- Nobel Peace Prize laureates
- Non-interventionism
- Nonviolence
- Nonviolent resistance
- Nuclear disarmament
- Pacifism
- Parliament Square Peace Campaign
- Peace
- Peace churches
- Resistance movement
- White House Peace Vigil
- World peace
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Sandi E. Cooper (1991). "Pacifism in France, 1889-1914: International Peace as a Human Right". French Historical Studies. 17. JSTOR 286462.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ La paix par le droit (in French), Association de la paix par le droit, 1890 Unknown parameter
|trans_title=ignored (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> - ↑ Alfred Hermann Fried (1905). Handbuch der Friedensbewegung (in German). Vienna: Velag der Oesterreichischen Friedensgesellschaft. Unknown parameter
|trans_title=ignored (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> - ↑ Roger S. Powers; et al., eds. (1997). "Serbia, Antiwar Activity, 1991-1994". Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-76482-0.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Alfred Hermann Fried (1911). "Die hervorragendsten Friedensorganisationen in den einzelnen Landern (The most prominent peace organizations in individual countries)". Handbuch der Friedensbewegung (in German) (2nd ed.). Berlin: Velag der Friedens-Warte – via Hathi Trust. Unknown parameter
|trans_title=ignored (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> - ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Sandi E. Cooper (1991). "Peace Societies, 1815-1914". Patriotic Pacifism: Waging War on War in Europe, 1815-1914. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-992338-0.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "società per la pace". google.com. Retrieved 29 December 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Paul Laity (2002). The British Peace Movement 1870-1914. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-155449-0.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Roger S. Powers; et al., eds. (1997). "Peace Pledge Union". Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-76482-0.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Bishopsgate Institute - Rationalist Peace Society - Rationalist Peace Society Archive at the Bishopsgate Library". bishopsgate.org.uk. Retrieved 29 December 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Robbie Lieberman (2010). The Strangest Dream: Communism, Anticommunism, and the U.S. Peace Movement, 1945-1963. IAP. ISBN 978-1-61735-054-2.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 Harriet Hyman Alonso (1993). "Chronological Listing of US Women's Rights Peace Organizations and Committees". Peace As a Women's Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women's Rights. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-0269-9.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Muslims of United States Peace Projects and activities". www.muslims-us.org.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "About WAMM". womenagainstmilitarymadness.org. Retrieved 29 December 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Roger S. Powers; et al., eds. (1997). "Pax Christi International". Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-76482-0.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Further reading
- George Esenwein (1991). "Organizations". Guide to the John D. Crummey Peace Collection in the Hoover Institution Archives. USA. ISBN 978-0-8179-2753-0.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- John Bassett McCleary (2004). "Anti-War and Peace Groups". The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s. Ten Speed Press. pp. 607–615. ISBN 978-1-58008-547-2.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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