Peace movement
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A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, and is often linked to the goal of achieving world peace. Means to achieve these ends include advocacy of pacifism, non-violent resistance, diplomacy, boycotts, peace camps, moral purchasing, supporting anti-war political candidates, legislation to remove the profit from government contracts to the Military–industrial complex, banning guns, creating open government and transparency tools, direct democracy, supporting Whistleblowers who expose War-Crimes or conspiracies to create wars, demonstrations, and national political lobbying groups to create legislation. The political cooperative is an example of an organization that seeks to merge all peace movement organizations and green organizations, which may have some diverse goals, but all of whom have the common goal of peace and humane sustainability. A concern of some peace activists is the challenge of attaining peace when those that oppose it often use violence as their means of communication and empowerment.
Some people refer to the global loose affiliation of activists and political interests as having a shared purpose and this constituting a single movement, "the peace movement", an all encompassing "anti-war movement". Seen this way, the two are often indistinguishable and constitute a loose, responsive, event-driven collaboration between groups with motivations as diverse as humanism, environmentalism, veganism, anti-racism, anti-sexism, decentralization, hospitality, ideology, theology, and faith.
See also
- American Friends Service Committee
- Conscientious objector
- Conscientious objection throughout the world
- Global citizens movement
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
- List of anti-war organizations
- List of peace activists
- The Lucas Plan
- Mike Cooley
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Nuclear-free zone
- Peace
- Peace Organisation of Australia
- Peace Pledge Union
- Peace symbol
- Peace flag
- Peace walk
- Soviet influence on the peace movement
- War memorial
- War resister
- White Rose
- World peace
- World Peace Marathon