peace movements
Organized opposition warfare
Peace movements are organized efforts by groups of citizens who advocate for ending wars, reducing military buildups, or promoting nonviolent resolution of conflicts.
These movements typically emerge during wartime or periods of heightened international tension, mobilizing through protests, petitions, and civil disobedience.
The peace movements of the 1960s drew millions of demonstrators opposed to the Vietnam War.
While often associated with the political left, peace movements have historically drawn support across ideological lines, united by opposition to specific conflicts or to war generally.
- nonviolencePrincipled rejection of force
- disarmamentReducing or eliminating weapons
- nuclear freezeHalt on atomic weapons
- ban the bombAntinuclear protest slogan
- conscientious objectionMoral refusal to fight
ahimsa · demilitarization · civil disobedience · peacemaking · draft resistance · anti-militarism · diplomatic negotiations · Quakers · anti-war activism · anti-war protests · antiwar · conflict resolution · ceasefire agreements · banners · protest · marches · placards · rallies
- peacepeaceful, peacefully, dove, dove release, olive branch
- 20th century cultureRoaring Twenties, Jazz Age, Great Depression, baby boom, counterculture
- Faith Activismsocial gospel, interfaith dialogue, Christian socialism, abolitionism, civil rights work
- Latin American Activismsocial movements, grassroots movements, indigenous movements, environmental activism, community organizing
- peace movementsnonviolence, anti-war, conscientious objector, conscientious objectors, antimilitarism
- Soviet Propagandaagitprop, Pravda, disinformation, state media, propaganda films
peace movementsmilitarism
Pro-force national policy
war hawks · military-industrial complex · interventionism · jingoism · warmongering
peace movementsnationalist movements
Collective drives for self-determination