For any society, participation in war invariably raises debates over the causes and consequences of involvement. Such debates often reveal preexisting divisions in society and tend to reflect larger social debates over national identity. When peace...

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 and idealism of the young, the experience of the old, and the...

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 1860–1861 as the outbreak of war threatened. Kentucky Senator John J....

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 centuries, peace movements emerged from pacifist religious communities like the Quakers,...

An Australian anti-conscription poster from World War One 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,...

Different peace movements aim to have a society which does not uphold violent means of democratization. They have an objective of total disarmament of the the society to avoid avenues for war. Although the organizations upholding peace movements are relentless to achieve their cause,...

TWENTIETH-CENTURY Americans live their lives in blithe insularity. The condition stems in part from our geography, which has rendered us effectively an island, bordered by oceans east and west and by harmless nations north and south. Yet it is not merely that Americans...

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 site outside President Bush's ranch.But Sheehan doesn't want to sell to just...

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 peaceful.The Crawford Peace House recently lost its corporate charter with the state, and a former member...