anti-war activism
Opposing military conflict
Anti-war activism is organized opposition to military conflict, encompassing protests, civil disobedience, draft resistance, and political advocacy aimed at ending or preventing wars.
The term gained prominence during the Vietnam era but applies to peace movements throughout history: Anti-war activism surged after the invasion.
Participants range from pacifists who oppose all war to those protesting specific conflicts.
- nonviolencePrincipled rejection of force
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- conscientious objectionMoral refusal to fight
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
- protest songsMusic voicing political dissent
teach-ins · moratorium · disarmament · draft resistance · draft card burning · peace movements · Quakerism · antimilitarism · boycotts · civil rights movement · political cartoons · hunger strikes · marches · petitions · sit-ins · picket · vigil · candlelight vigil
- nonviolencenonviolence, pacifism, harmlessness, nonviolent, peaceful
- Sixties Activismcampus protests, counterculture, draft resistance, peace movement, protest marches
anti-war activismmilitarism
Pro-force national policy
jingoism · hawkishness · warmongering · saber-rattling · belligerence
anti-war activismpolitical apathy
Indifference to governance
indifference · complacency · nonparticipation · acquiescence