List of anti-war organizations explained

In order to facilitate organized, determined, and principled opposition to the wars, people have often founded anti-war organizations. These groups range from temporary coalitions which address one war or pending war, to more permanent structured organizations which work to end the concept of war and the factors which lead to large-scale destructive conflicts. The overwhelming majority do so in a nonviolent manner. The following list of anti-war organizations highlights past and present anti-war groups from around the world.

International

• Beyond War
• Christian Peacemaker Teams
• Dartmouth Conferences
• Hands Off the People of Iran
• Institute for Economics & Peace
• International Campaign Against Aggression on Iraq
• International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
• International Campaign to Ban Landmines
• International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons
• International Fellowship of Reconciliation
• International Peace Bureau
• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
• Mondpaca Esperantista Movado World Peace Esperanto Movement
• Nobel Women's Initiative organized by female Nobel Peace Prize winners
• Nonviolent Peaceforce
• Peace One Day
• Peace Brigades International
• Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
• Service Civil International
• Students for Justice in Palestine
• The Non-Violence Project
• War Resisters' International
• World Constitution and Parliament Association
• World Constitution Coordinating Committee
• World Beyond War
• World Peace Council
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace

Africa

• Anti-War Coalition
• Committee on South African War Resistance
• End Conscription Campaign
• Koeberg Alert

Asia

• Beheiren
• Peace Now
• National Council for Peace

Europe

• Czech National Social Party – Austria-Hungary, main altimilitarist party during the World War in 1914–1918
• Dansk Fredsforening, Danske Kvinders Fredskæde – Denmark^{[1] [2]}
• German Peace Society
• International League of Peace
• League of Peace and Freedom^[3]
• Norwegian Peace Association (Norwegian: Norges Fredslag)^[4]
• Società per la pace e la giustizia internazionale – Italy^[5]
• Soviet Peace Committee – state-controlled organization during the Soviet Union
• Stop the War Committee – opposed the Second Boer war
• Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society
• VOS - Vlaamse Vredesvereniging – Flemish Peace Association, created in the trenches of Flanders during the Great War

France

• Movement for a Non-violent Alternative (in French)
• Peace Through Law Association
• Union pacifiste de France (in French)
• Groupe d'action et de résistance à la militarisation (in French)
• Mouvement pour le désarmement, la paix et la liberté (in French)

United Kingdom

• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
• Committee of 100
• Direct Action Committee
• International Voluntary Service
• Military Families Against the War
• No-Conscription Fellowship
• Peace Pledge Union^[6]
• Peace Society^[7]
• Stop the War Coalition
• Spies for Peace

North America

United States

See also: Pacifism in the United States.

• About Face (formerly Iraq Veterans Against the War)
• America First Committee – opposed American entry into the Second World War
• American League Against War and Fascism
• American Peace Mobilization
• American Peace Society
• American Writers Against the Vietnam War
• A.N.S.W.E.R. (also known as International ANSWER and ANSWER Coalition)
• Another Mother For Peace
• Anti-War Committee
• Antiwar.com
• Buffalo Nine
• Campus Antiwar Network
• Committee for Non-Violent Action (later merged with the War Resisters League)
• Committee for Nonviolent Revolution
• Center on Conscience & War (formerly known as NISBCO)
• Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
• Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
• Council for a Livable World
• Council for the National Interest
  • Common Dreams
• ChildVoice International
• Direct Action to Stop the War
• Friends Committee on National Legislation
• Gay Liberation Network
• GI Rights Network
• Gold Star Families for Peace
• Grandmothers for Peace
• Iraq Peace Action Coalition
• LewRockwell.com
• Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
• Military Families Speak Out opposed to war in Iraq
• Mennonite Central Committee
• Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
• National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund
• National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
• New York Peace Society – first peace society in U.S., opposed 19th and 20th century wars
• No Conscription League
• Not in Our Name
• Orange County Student Alliance
• Peace Action
• Peace Alliance
• Peace and Freedom Party
• People's Coalition for Peace and Justice
• People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace – anti-World War I group
• Port Militarization Resistance
• Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
• RESIST
• Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity^[8]
• Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice
• September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
• Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization)
• The World Can't Wait
• Troops Out Now Coalition
• United for Peace and Justice
• Veterans for Peace
• Vietnam Day Committee
• Vietnam Veterans Against the War
• War Resisters League
• Win Without War
• Women's Peace Party^[9]
• Women's Peace Society
• Women's Peace Union
• Writers Against the War on Gaza
• Youth International Party (Yippies)

Canada

• American Deserters Committee
• Canadian Peace Alliance
• Canadian Peace Congress
• Ceasefire Canada
• Nova Scotia Voice of Women
• War Resisters Support Campaign

Oceania

• Global Peace and Justice Auckland
• Peace Action Wellington
• Stop the War Coalition

Religious

Christian

• American Friends Service Committee
• Anglican Pacifist Fellowship
• Catholic Association for International Peace
• Catholic Worker Movement
• Christian Peace Conference
• Episcopal Peace Fellowship
• Fellowship of Reconciliation
• Friends Committee on National Legislation
• Lutheran Peace Fellowship
• Mennonite Central Committee
• Methodist Peace Fellowship
• Order of Maximilian – anti-Vietnam war organization
• Pax Christi^[10]
• Pentecostals & Charismatics for Peace & Justice
• Presbyterian Peace Fellowship

Buddhist

• Buddhist Peace Fellowship

Jewish

• Jewish Voice for Peace

See also

• List of peace activists
• Anti-nuclear organizations
• Anti-war movement
• Direct action
• Gandhi Peace Award
• Gandhi Peace Prize
• GI Coffeehouses
• GI Underground Press
• Global Peace Index
• Nobel Peace Prize laureates
• Non-interventionism
• Nonviolence
• Nonviolent resistance
• Nuclear disarmament
• Pacifism
• Parliament Square Peace Campaign
• Peace
• Peace churches
• Resistance movement
• White House Peace Vigil
• World peace

Further reading

• Book: George Esenwein . 1991 . Guide to the John D. Crummey Peace Collection in the Hoover Institution Archives . USA. 978-0-8179-2753-0 . Organizations . https://books.google.com/books?id=sJ5yop6qY-QC&pg=PA76.
• Book: John Bassett McCleary . The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s . 2004. Ten Speed Press. 978-1-58008-547-2 . Anti-War and Peace Groups . https://books.google.com/books?id=uPV8phkhHAQC&pg=PA607 . 607–615 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Alfred Hermann Fried. Alfred Hermann Fried. Handbuch der Friedensbewegung . 1911 . 2nd . Berlin . Verlag der Friedens-Warte . de . Handbook of the Peace Movement . Die hervorragendsten Friedensorganisationen in den einzelnen Landern (The most prominent peace organizations in individual countries) . 2027/wu.89101083970?urlappend=%3Bseq=580. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89101083970?urlappend=%3Bseq=580 . Hathi Trust .
2. Web site: Danse Kvinders Fredskæde og Kvindernes Internationale Liga for Fred og Friheds historie i perioden 1915-1924. Terp, Holger. Det danske Fredsakademi. 1 January 2019 . da.
3. Pacifism in France, 1889-1914: International Peace as a Human Right . Sandi E. Cooper . French Historical Studies . 17 . 1991 . 2 . 359–386 . 10.2307/286462 . 286462 .
4. Book: Sandi E. Cooper. Patriotic Pacifism: Waging War on War in Europe, 1815-1914 . 1991. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-992338-0 . https://books.google.com/books?id=ihwN4gfSbWgC&pg=PT253 . Peace Societies, 1815-1914 .
5. Web site: società per la pace. google.com. 29 December 2015.
6. Book: Roger S. Powers. Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action. 1997 . Routledge. 978-1-136-76482-0 . Peace Pledge Union . https://books.google.com/books?id=xmlWr4aAt4EC&pg=PA406 . etal.
7. Book: Paul Laity . The British Peace Movement 1870-1914. 2002. Clarendon Press. 978-0-19-155449-0.
8. Web site: Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. 2021-11-04. www.ronpaulinstitute.org.
9. Book: Harriet Hyman Alonso . Peace As a Women's Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women's Rights. 1993. Syracuse University Press. 978-0-8156-0269-9 . Chronological Listing of US Women's Rights Peace Organizations and Committees . https://books.google.com/books?id=FZJxg8gQThoC&pg=PA277 .
10. Book: Roger S. Powers. Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action. 1997 . Routledge. 978-1-136-76482-0 . Pax Christi International . https://books.google.com/books?id=xmlWr4aAt4EC&pg=PA403 . etal.