Peace Movements
Efforts to retain and regain peace during the Civil War (1861–1865) were uniformly unsuccessful. The earliest of these efforts took place in Washington in the winter of 1860...
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Peace Movements, 1898–1945
For any society, participation in war invariably raises debates over the causes and consequences of involvement. Such debates often reveal preexisting divisions in so...
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Antiwar Movement
There have been many antiwar movements in America, but the protest that surfaced in response to the Vietnam War was unique. It started small and grew steadily, feeding on the energy a...
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Peace Movements, 1946–Present
In the United States, peace movements have long provided a forum for dissent from government decisions to wage war. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth cent...
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Japanese peace activists are divided about how to evaluate the
crushing defeat suffered by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal
Democratic Party in the July 29 House of Councillors elect...
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(EDS: CLARIFYING 6TH GRAF)
Japanese peace activists are divided about how to evaluate the
crushing defeat suffered by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal
Democratic Party in the July 2...
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Days after Cindy Sheehan announced she was stepping down as the face of the anti-war movement, an organization that supports the U.S. intervention in Iraq said Friday it plans to buy her protest si...
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With allegations of money mismanagement, threats of court action and some members leaving, a group that has sponsored war protests in President Bush's adopted hometown has been anything but peacefu...
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An annual march calling for global peace and return of land used
for U.S. military bases began Thursday in Okinawa, as
state-of-the-art U.S. stealth fighters began leaving one of the bases
t...
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Thousands rallied Saturday outside Paris to decry a recent European Union decision to keep an Iranian opposition group on a terror blacklist, while a group leader insisted Iran is "on the verge of ...
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Johannesburg (dpa) - India's Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi
met Wednesday with former South African president Nelson Mandela
during the second day of her trip to South A...
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French authorities plan to investigate the 1999 killing of a top Iranian general, which was claimed by an Iranian opposition group based in France, judicial officials said Monday.Brig. Gen. Ali Say...
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The Canadian rocker Bryan Adams will headline concerts for peace in the West Bank and Israel next week, with his performances relayed by satellite to London, Ottawa and Washington, organizers said ...
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