In order to facilitate organized opposition to war, anti-war
Anti-war
The term anti-war usually refers to the opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing casus belli.... activists have often founded anti-war organizations. These groups range from temporary coalitions to more permanent structured organizations.
The following is a list of anti-war organizations from across the world:
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In order to facilitate organized opposition to war, anti-war
Anti-war
The term anti-war usually refers to the opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing casus belli.... activists have often founded anti-war organizations. These groups range from temporary coalitions to more permanent structured organizations.
The following is a list of anti-war organizations from across the world:
The Anti-war Coalition is a coalition of South African anti-war activists. It could have links to the international Stop the War Coalition but has instead chosen to involve itself with local politics, in particular the Workers International Vanguard League....
The Committee on South African War Resistance , an organisation of exiled conscientious objectors, pacifists, anti-militarists and deserters from the SADF, was formed in the aftermath of South Africa?s invasion of Angola in 1975 and the Soweto uprising the following year....
The End Conscription Campaign was an anti-apartheid organisation allied to the United Democratic Front and composed of conscientious objectors and their supporters in South Africa....
Koeberg Alert formed in 1983 and started out as a local campaign against South Africa's nuclear programme, in particular the construction of Koeberg Nuclear Power Station....
Beheiren was a Japanese activist group that existed from 1965 to 1974. As a coalition of a few hundred anti-war groups it protested Japanese assistance to the United States during the Vietnam War....
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain. It also campaigns for international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty....
Military Families Against the War is an organisation of families of servicemen in the United Kingdom created to campaign for British troops to be withdrawn from Iraq....
School Students Against War is an active school students' anti-war group based in the United Kingdom. It was established in 2003 as a youth off-shoot of Stop the War Coalition, and is completely organised and maintained by School and FE College students.]...
The Spies for Peace was a group of anti-war activists associated with Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Committee of 100 who publicized government preparations for rule after a nuclear war....
For the Australian anti-war group see Stop the War Coalition .The Stop the War Coalition is a United Kingdom anti-war group set up on 21 September 2001....
The Stop the War Committee was an anti-war organisation which Opposition to the Second Boer War the Second Boer War.It was formed by William Thomas Stead in 1899....
The American Friends Service Committee is a Religious Society of Friends affiliated organization which provides humanitarian relief and works for social justice, peace and reconciliation, human rights, and abolition of the death penalty....
The American League Against War and Fascism was a Comintern affiliate organization formed in 1933 by CPUSA and Pacifism united by their concern as Nazism and Fascism rose in Europe....
The American Peace Mobilization was a Communist front group, officially cited in 1947 by United States Attorney General Tom C. Clark on the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations for 1948, as directed by President Harry S....
Act Now to Stop War and End Racism ? also known as International A.N.S.W.E.R. and the ANSWER Coalition ? is a United States of America-based protest organization.... (also known as International ANSWER and ANSWER Coalition)
Another Mother for Peace is a grass-roots anti-war organization founded in 1967 in opposition to the U.S. Vietnam War. The association is ?dedicated to eliminating the use of war as a means of solving disputes among nations, people and ideologies....
The Anti-War Committee is an organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The AWC organizes many protests, educational events and other related activities....
The Campus Antiwar Network describes itself as an "independent, democratic, grassroots network of students opposing the occupation of Iraq and military recruitment in our schools." It was founded prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and claims to be the largest campus-based antiwar organization in the United States....
The Catholic Association for International Peace was founded in 1927 by John A. Ryan. It based its opposition to war on the traditional just war doctrine....
The Catholic Worker Movement is a collection of autonomous communities of Catholics founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933. Its aim is to "live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ." One of its guiding principles is hospitality towards those on the margin of society....
The Center on Conscience & War is a United States non-profit organization anti-war organization dedicated to defending and extending the rights of conscientious objectors.... (formerly known as NISBCO)
The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors is a United States organization founded in 1948 and dedicated to helping people avoid or escape military Conscription....
The DC Anti-War Network was a grassroots non-hierarchical anti-war organization formed after the September 11, 2001 attacks which ceased meeting in the fall of 2007....
The Friends Committee on National Legislation a Lobbying founded in 1943 by members of the Religious Society of Friends. FCNL is a 501 public interest lobby....
The GI Rights Network is coalition that provides free and confidential information to United States military servicemembers, veterans, and their families....
Gold Star Families for Peace is a United States based organization founded in January 2005 by individuals who lost family members in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and are thus entitled to display a Service flag....
Iraq Veterans Against the War is an advocacy group of American active duty military personnel, Iraq War veterans, War in Afghanistan veterans, and other veterans who have served since 9/11 who are opposed to the U.S....
The Iraq Peace Action Coalition is an antiwar organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The coalition was created in order to coordinate activities by local activists in opposition to the U.S....
Just Foreign Policy is an organization founded in 2006 that is dedicated to reforming U.S. foreign policy through coordinating the broad majority of Americans to advocate their interests and values, largely through Internet actions styled on those of MoveOn.Org and similar groups....
Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives is a Non-profit organization founded in 1985 to provide educational programs on peace and national security issues and to promote dialogue on the role and responsibility of citizens in determining national priorities and policies....
The Mennonite Central Committee is a relief, service, and peace agency representing 15 Mennonite, Brethren in Christ and Amish bodies in North America....
Military Families Speak Out is a United States based anti Iraq war group.Military Families Speak Out was founded by two military families in November, 2002 to use our special need to speak out against a U.S.... (not anti-war, opposed only to war in Iraq)
National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam
The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam was a group that became an umbrella anti-Vietnam war group. Members of this group convinced Senator Eugene McCarthy to run in the primaries against Lyndon B....
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee is an United States activist group that promotes tax resistance as a way to protest against and/or disassociate from war and militarism....
Not in Our Name was a United States organization founded on March 23, 2002 to protest the U.S. government's course in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks; it disbanded on March 31, 2008....
Port Militarization Resistance is an anti-war organization in the United States. The organization began in May 2006, in Olympia, Washington, but also has chapters in Tacoma, Washington, Grays Harbor, Washington, and the Mid-Atlantic region....
September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC was one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s....
The World Can't Wait is a left-wing group in the United States. According to its mission statement, by organizing people living in the United States, WCW seeks "to create a political situation where the Presidency of George W....
The Troops Out Now Coalition is a United States anti-war organization, which describes itself as "a national grassroots coalition of antiwar activists, trade unionists, solidarity activists and community organizers." It was founded on December 3, 2004 upon the decision of A.N.S.W.E.R....
United for Peace and Justice is a coalition of more than 1,300 international and U.S.-based organizations opposed to what they describe as "our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building."...
Veterans For Peace is an United States organization founded in 1985. Made up of male and female veterans of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and other conflicts, as well as peacetime veterans, the group works to promote alternatives to war....
Vietnam Veterans Against the War is a tax-exempt non-profit organization and corporation, originally created to oppose the Vietnam War. VVAW describes itself as a national veterans' organization that Advertising campaigns for peace, justice, and the rights of all United States military veterans....
The War Resisters League was formed in 1923 by men and women who had opposed World War I. It is a section of the London-based War Resisters' International....
The Canadian Peace Alliance / L'Alliance canadienne pour la paix is a Canada umbrella Peace movement claiming more than 140 member groups. It was founded in 1985....
Ceasefire Canada is an organization established to persuade Canadian politicians to oppose the War in Afghanistan , allow U.S. war resisters to stay in Canada, ban cluster bombs, abolish nuclear weapons, prevent the weaponization of space, and take action on other issues....
The War Resisters Support Campaign is a Canada non-profit community organization, founded in April 2004 in Toronto, Ontario to mobilize support among Canadians and worldwide to convince the Canadian government to offer sanctuary to all U.S....
Global Peace and Justice Auckland describes itself as "a network of people who provide a platform for individuals and groups to discuss and organise co-operatively on peace and justice issues." They are well known for organising the Auckland component of the global February 15, 2003 anti-war protest that attracted 10, 000 people to protest...
Peace Action Wellington is an organisation in Wellington, New Zealand, that campaigns for peace, justice and self determination.The group was founded in 2002 to oppose wars, particularly the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and played a prominent role in the New Zealand Opposition to the Iraq War's opposition to the war, organising large protests....
Peace Movement Aotearoa is New Zealand's national network of peace and social justice organisations. PMA is based in Wellington, New Zealand and supports the New Zealand tino rangatiratanga, human rights, anti-war, global justice and social justice movements by providing information, news and views through its website and email 'Action Aler...
Stop the War Coalition , like it's United Kingdom counterpart is an Australian anti-war group initially formed in Sydney in 2003 and later in Melbourne in 2004, mainly in response to the US-led wars in Iraq War and War in Afghanistan and the general "War on Terror" of which the Australian Government has been a strong ally....
Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran is a group of people, especially academics, students and professionals of both Iranian and non-Iranian backgrounds whose aim is to Opposition to war against Iran and sanctions, especially as they pertain to current United States-Iran relations....
Hands Off the People of Iran is an anti war campaign in the UK. In addition to Opposition to military action against Iran in Iran, Hopi also builds up solidarity links with radical Iranian secular forces....
The International Campaign Against Agreession on Iraq is a campaign umbrella group launched in Cairo 2003, at the Cairo Anti-war Conference, to oppose the 2003 invasion of Iraq....
The International Fellowship of Reconciliation is an international faith-based nonviolent movement created shortly after the World War I, in 1919, to draw together national Fellowship of Reconciliation that had been founded during the war....
The Pentecostal Charismatic Peace Fellowship is a multiculturalism, gender inclusive, and ecumenical organization that promotes peace, justice, and reconciliation work among Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians....
Students for Justice in Palestine is a national student organization which was first established at the University of California, Berkeley. The student group's mission statement states the following: "SJP is a diverse group of students, faculty, staff and community members at [establishment], organized on democratic principles to promote jus...
War Resisters' International is an international anti-war organization with members and affiliates in over thirty countries. Its headquarters are in London, UK....
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Founded in 1915, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is the oldest women's peace organization in the world. It is a Non-profit organization non-governmental organization working "to bring together women of different political views and philosophical and religious backgrounds determined to study and make known the causes of...
