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-The term '''anti-war''' sometimes refers to [[pacifism]], i.e., opposition to all use of military force during conflicts, but most often is used in the context of opposing one particular nation's decision to wage war. Many activists distinguish between ''anti-war'' movements and ''peace'' movements. Anti-war activists believe that most wars have an aggressor and that their movement works to ensure that the aggressor (whose goals they see as selfish) ends their war.+A '''war resister''' is a person who resists war. The term can mean several things: resisting participation in all war, or a specific war, either before or after enlisting in, being inducted into, or being [[conscription|conscripted]] into a military force.
-==Arts and culture==+==See also==
-Probably the first anti-war piece of literature is ''[[Lysistrata]].''+*[[Antimilitarism]]
- +*[[Canada and Iraq War resisters]]
-[[England|English]] poet [[Robert Southey]]'s 1796 poem [[After Blenheim]] is an early modern example of anti-war literature — it was written generations after the [[Battle of Blenheim]], but at a time when England was again at war with France. +*[[Committee on South African War Resistance]]
- +*[[Conscientious objector]]
-[[World War I]] produced a generation of poets and writers influenced by their experiences in the war. The work of poets including [[Wilfred Owen]] and [[Siegfried Sassoon]] exposed the contrast between the realities of life in the trenches and how the war was seen by the British public at the time, as well as the earlier patriotic verse penned by [[Rupert Brooke]]. German writer [[Erich Maria Remarque]] penned All Quiet on the Western Front, which, having been adapted for several mediums, has become of the most often cited pieces of anti-war media. +*[[Deserter]]
- +*[[Draft dodger]]
-[[Pablo Picasso]]'s 1937 painting ''[[Guernica (painting)|Guernica]]'', on the other hand, used abstraction rather than realism to generate an emotional response to the loss of life from the [[fascism|fascist]] [[bombing of Guernica]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]]. American author [[Kurt Vonnegut]] used science fiction themes in his 1969 novel [[Slaughterhouse-Five]], depicting the [[bombing of Dresden in World War II]] (which Vonnegut witnessed).+
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-The second half of the 20th century also witnessed a strong anti-war presence in other art forms, including anti-war music such as "[[Eve of Destruction (song)|Eve of Destruction]]" and [[One Tin Soldier]] and films such as ''[[M*A*S*H]]'' and "[[Die Brücke]]", opposing the [[Cold War]] in general, or specific conflicts such as the [[Vietnam War]]. The current American war in [[Iraq]] has also generated significant artistic anti-war works, including film maker [[Michael Moore]]'s ''[[Fahrenheit 9/11]]'', which holds the box-office record for documentary films, and [[Canada|Canadian]] musician [[Neil Young]]'s 2006 album ''[[Living with War]]''.+
-== See also ==+
-*[[Anti]]+
-*[[War]]+
-== See also ==+
-*[[Anti-militarism]]+
-*[[Bed-in]]+
-*[[Die-in]]+
*[[List of anti-war organizations]] *[[List of anti-war organizations]]
-*[[List of anti-war songs]]+*[[List of Iraq War resisters]]
*[[List of peace activists]] *[[List of peace activists]]
-*[[Nonkilling]] 
-*[[Nonviolence]] 
-*[[Nonviolent resistance]] 
-*[[Nuclear-free zone]] 
*[[Peace movement]] *[[Peace movement]]
-*[[Pro-war]]+*[[Peace Pledge Union]]
-*[[Raging Grannies]]+*[[Refusal to serve in the Israeli military]]
 +*[[South African resistance to war]]
*[[Tax resistance]] *[[Tax resistance]]
-*[[Teach-in]]+*[[War Resisters International]]
-*[[War Against War]]+*[[War Resisters League]]
-*[[War resister]]+*[[War Resisters League Peace Award]]
 +*[[War Resisters Support Campaign]]
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A war resister is a person who resists war. The term can mean several things: resisting participation in all war, or a specific war, either before or after enlisting in, being inducted into, or being conscripted into a military force.

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