peace activism
Nonviolent political advocacy
Peace activism is organized effort to oppose war, reduce military spending, or promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
Peace activists march, lobby, and demonstrate against specific conflicts or against militarism generally: Her peace activism began during the Vietnam War.
The term covers everything from quiet vigils to civil disobedience.
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- sit-insStationary protest tactics
- nonviolent resistanceProtest through peaceful means
- international peacekeepingForeign troops maintaining ceasefires
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
draft resistance · nuclear disarmament · mediation efforts · human rights education · Mennonites · Quakers · diplomatic negotiations · conscientious objection · hunger strikes · Gandhi · conflict resolution · anti-war protests · flower power · ban the bomb · civil rights · banner · picket · antiwar
- peacepeaceful, peacefully, dove, dove release, olive branch
- peacemakingnegotiation, mediation, mediate, pacifying, negotiate
- women's contributionssuffrage, voting rights, feminism, civil rights, equal pay
- Faith Activismsocial gospel, interfaith dialogue, Christian socialism, sanctuary movement, abolitionism
- nonviolencenonviolence, pacifism, harmlessness, nonviolent, peaceful
- peace movementspacifism, nonviolence, anti-war, conscientious objector, conscientious objectors
peace activismmilitarism
Pro-force national policy
warmongering · hawkishness · jingoism · saber-rattling · war propaganda
peace activismarmed resistance
Organized violent opposition
terrorism · guerrilla warfare · armed struggle · military intervention · preemptive war