In order to facilitate organized, determined, and principled opposition to war, peace-centered activists 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 across the world.
Society of Peace[]
- Origins
International[]
- Christian Peacemaker Teams
- Darthmouth Conferences
- Hands Off the People of Iran
- Institute for Economics and Peace
- International Campaign Against Aggression on Iraq
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
- International Campaign to Ban Landmines
- 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
- Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
- Students for Justice in Palestine
- The Non-Violence Project
- War Resisters' International
- 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
Europe[]
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
- Committee of 100
- Direct Action Committee
- Military Families Against the War
- No Conscription Fellowship
- Peace Pledge Union
- School Students Against War
- Soviet Peace Committee - Soviet era State controlled organization
- Spies for Peace
- Stop the War Coalition
- Stop the War Committee - opposed the Second Boer war
North America[]
United States[]
- America First Committee - opposed American entry into the Second World War
- American League Against War and Fascism
- American Peace Mobilization
- American Peace Society
- A.N.S.W.E.R. (also known as International ANSWER and ANSWER Coalition)
- Another Mother For Peace
- Anti-War Committee
- Antiwar.com
- 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
- The Council for National Interest
- Code Pink: Women for Peace
- Common Dreams
- ChildVoice International
- Direct Action to Stop the War
- GI Rights Network
- Gold Star Families for Peace
- Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Iraq Peace Action Coalition
- LewRockwell.com
- Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
- Military Families Speak Out opposed to war in Iraq
- 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 Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth
- 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
- Peace Action
- Peace and Freedom Party
- People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace - anti-World War I group
- Port Militarization Resistance
- September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
- Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
- Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization)
- The Buffalo Nine
- 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
- Women's Peace Party
- Youth International Party (Yippies)
Canada[]
- 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
- Mennonite Central Committee
- Methodist Peace Fellowship
- Order of Maximilian, anti-Vietnam war organization
- Pax Christi
- Pentecostal Charismatic Peace Fellowship
Buddhist[]
- Buddhist Peace Fellowship
See also[]
- Anti-nuclear organizations
- Anti-war movement
- Direct action
- Gandhi Peace Award
- Gandhi Peace Prize
- Global Peace Index
- Nobel Peace Prize laureates
- Non-interventionism
- Nonviolence
- Nonviolent resistance
- Nuclear disarmament
- Parliament Square Peace Campaign
- Peace churches
- Resistance movement
- White House Peace Vigil
- World peace
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