anti-war stance
Against armed conflict
An anti-war stance is opposition to military conflict, either to war generally or to a specific war.
The phrase appears in political discourse to characterize someone's position: Her anti-war stance cost her support among defense hawks.
Taking an anti-war stance may involve advocacy, protest, or simply voting and speaking against military intervention.
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- conscientious objectionMoral refusal to fight
- peace protestsDemonstrations against armed conflict
- diplomacyNegotiation between nations
- draft resistanceOpposition to mandatory military service
nonviolence · civil resistance · conflict resolution · international solidarity · grassroots organizing · mediation · peace treaties · Vietnam War protests · flower power · peace movement · humanism · doves · human shields · cosmopolitanism · egalitarianism · nuclear disarmament · military industrial complex
- TolstoyWar and Peace, Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy, Resurrection
anti-war stancewarmongering
Promoting or inciting warfare
militarism · hawkishness · interventionism · bellicosity · saber-rattling
anti-war stancehawkish
Favoring aggressive action
belligerent · aggressive · confrontational · combative · militant
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