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Pages in category "Peace organizations based in the United States" The following 113 pages are in this category, out of 113 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Kathy Kelly (born 1952) – American peace and anti-war activist, arrested over 60 times during protests; member and organizer of international peace teams; Petra Kelly (1947–1992) – German politician, feminist, pacifist; Steve Kelly (born c.1949) – American Jesuit priest and antinuclear activist
The development and ideological foundation of the Peacemakers can be credited to the Cold War American religious renewal and a rising discontent with American war efforts. [4] In 1944 and 1945, Activist A.J. Muste held conferences on “the philosophy and methodology of revolutionary pacifism” alongside a successive conference in 1947 in ...
High level" (governmental and international) peacemaking, involving direct talks between the leaders of conflicting parties, is sometimes thus referred to as Track 1. [2] Tracks 2 and 3 are said to involve dialogue at lower levels—often unofficially between groups, parties, and stakeholders to a violent conflict—as well as efforts to avoid ...
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.
Peace organizations are part of the Peace movement See also the categories Peace movements , Nonviolence organizations , and Anti–nuclear weapons movement Subcategories
A Pacifist organization promotes the pacifist principle of renouncing war and violence for political ends. They are distinguished from organizations concerned only with removing nuclear weapons from war, though those organization may call for suspension of hostilities as well. Other organizations include those that deal with other concerns, but ...
Judith Hand (born 1940) – American biologist, pioneer of peace ethology; Florence Jaffray Harriman (1870–1967) – American suffragist, social reformer, pacifist and diplomat; Erna P. Harris (1908-1995) – African-American journalist, civil rights and peace activist; Alice Herz (1882–1965) – German-born American peace activist