peace activists
Marchers against conflict
Peace activists are people who work to prevent or end armed conflict and promote nonviolent resolution of disputes.
The term covers a range from organized protesters to diplomats to ordinary citizens advocating against war: Peace activists gathered outside the embassy.
The label can be neutral or carry connotations—admiring their moral stance or dismissing them as naive about geopolitical realities.
- nonviolencePrincipled rejection of force
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- QuakersPacifist Protestant denomination
- conscientious objectorOne refusing military service morally
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
human rights · mediation · Martin Luther King Jr. · restorative justice · Gandhi · Bertrand Russell · disarmament · nuclear freeze · negotiation · war resistance · protests · solidarity · abolitionists · conflict resolution · anti-nuclear protests · boycotts · doves · draft resistance
- peacepeaceful, peacefully, dove, dove release, olive branch
- HumanitariansMother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr.
- peace movementspacifism, nonviolence, anti-war, conscientious objector, conscientious objectors
- reformersreformers, reformer, social reformers, social reformer, political reformer
- Peace Groupspeacekeepers, mediators, negotiators, Nobel Committee
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
peace activistswarmongers
Advocates for military action
hawks · war hawks · militarists · jingoists · jingoist
peace activistsmilitants
Aggressive advocates for causes
terrorists · insurgents · guerrilla fighters · paramilitaries · warlords
peace activistsarms dealers
Merchants of weapons
war profiteers · defense contractors · military-industrial complex · mercenaries · private military contractors