List of anti-war organizations

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. The overwhelming majority do so in a nonviolent manner. The following list of anti-war organizations highlights past and present anti-war groups from around the world.

International

Africa

Asia

Europe

Czech National Social Party – Austria-Hungary, main altimilitarist party during the World War in 1914–1918
Dansk Fredsforening, Danske Kvinders Fredskæde – Denmark^[2]^[3]
German Peace Society
International League of Peace^[4]
League of Peace and Freedom^[4]
Norwegian Peace Association (Norwegian: Norges Fredslag)^[5]
Società per la pace e la giustizia internazionale – Italy^[5]^[6]
Soviet Peace Committee – state-controlled organization during the Soviet Union
Stop the War Committee – opposed the Second Boer war
Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society^[5]
VOS - Vlaamse Vredesvereniging – Flemish Peace Association, created in the trenches of Flanders during the Great War

France

Movement for a Non-violent Alternative (in French)
Peace Through Law Association
Union pacifiste de France (in French)
Groupe d'action et de résistance à la militarisation (in French)
Mouvement pour le désarmement, la paix et la liberté (in French)

United Kingdom

North America

United States

About Face (formerly Iraq Veterans Against the War)
America First Committee – opposed American entry into the Second World War
American League Against War and Fascism
American Peace Mobilization
American Peace Society
American Writers Against the Vietnam War
A.N.S.W.E.R. (also known as International ANSWER and ANSWER Coalition)
Another Mother For Peace^[9]
Anti-War Committee
Antiwar.com
Buffalo Nine
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
Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
Council for a Livable World
Council for the National Interest
Code Pink: Women for Peace
Common Dreams
ChildVoice International
Direct Action to Stop the War
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Gay Liberation Network
GI Rights Network
Gold Star Families for Peace
Grandmothers for Peace
Iraq Peace Action Coalition
LewRockwell.com
Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
Military Families Speak Out opposed to war in Iraq
Mennonite Central Committee
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 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
Orange County Student Alliance
Peace Action
Peace Alliance
Peace and Freedom Party
People's Coalition for Peace and Justice
People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace – anti-World War I group
Port Militarization Resistance
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
RESIST
Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity^[10]
Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice^[9]
September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization)
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
Win Without War
Women's Peace Party^[9]
Women's Peace Society^[9]
Women's Peace Union^[9]
Writers Against the War on Gaza
Youth International Party (Yippies)

Canada

Oceania

Religious

Christian

Buddhist

Buddhist Peace Fellowship

Jewish

Jewish Voice for Peace

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