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{{Short description|None}}{{See also|Anti-war movement|Peace movement}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usually work with others in the overall anti-war and peace movements to focus the world’s attention on what they perceive to be the irrationality of violent conflicts, decisions, and actions. They thus initiate and facilitate wide public dialogues intended to nonviolently alter long-standing societal agreements directly relating to, and held in place by, the various violent, habitual, and historically fearful thought-processes residing at the core of these conflicts, with the intention of peacefully ending the conflicts themselves.{{compact ToC|side=no|top=yes|num=no|extlinks=no|custom1=See also|custom2=Notes|custom3=Sources|custom4=Further reading}}

A

File:Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar.jpg|thumb|right|B. R. AmbedkarB. R. AmbedkarFile:UriAvnery.jpg|thumb|Uri AvneryUri Avnery

B

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C

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D

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E

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F

  • Mildred Fahrni (1900–1992) – Canadian pacifist, feminist, internationally active in the peace movement
  • Andrew Feinstein (born 1964) – South African activist against the arms trade; first member of the South African Parliament to introduce a motion on the Holocaust
  • Michael Ferber (born 1944) – American author, professor, anti-war activist
  • Benjamin Ferencz (1920–2023) – American chief prosecutor{{sfn|Tangcay|2020}} at the Einsatzgruppen Trial
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021) – American poet, painter, peace and social activist{{sfn|Ludel|2021}}{{sfn|Williams|2021}}
  • Hermann Fernau (born 1883) – German lawyer, writer, journalist and pacifist
  • Solange Fernex (1934–2006) – French peace activist and politician
  • Beatrice Fihn (born 1982) – Swedish anti-nuclear activist, chairperson of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
  • Genevieve Fiore (1912–2002) – American women’s rights and peace activist
  • Ingrid Fiskaa (born 1977) – Norwegian politician and peace activist
  • Jane Fonda (born 1937) – American anti-war protester, actress
  • Henni Forchhammer (1863–1955) – Danish educator, feminist and pacifist
  • Jim Forest (1941–2022) – American author, international secretary of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship
  • Randall Forsberg (1943–2007) – led a lifetime of research and advocacy on ways to reduce the risk of war, minimize the burden of military spending, and promote democratic institutions; career started at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in 1968
  • Tom Fox (1951–2006) – American Quaker
  • Diana Francis (born 1944) – British peace activist and scholar, former president of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation
  • Ursula Franklin (1921–2016) – German-Canadian scientist, pacifist and feminist, whose research helped end atmospheric nuclear testing
  • Marcia Freedman (born 1938) – American-Israeli peace activist, feminist and supporter of gay rights
  • Comfort Freeman – Liberian anti-war activist
  • Maikki Friberg (1861–1927) – Finnish educator, journal editor, suffragist and peace activist
  • Alfred Fried (1864–1921) – co-founder of German peace movement, called for world peace organization


G

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H

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I

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J

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  • Berthold Jacob (1898–1944) – German journalist and pacifist
  • Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929) – Dutch physician, feminist and peace activist
  • Martha Larsen Jahn (1875–1954) – Norwegian peace activist and feminist
  • Jean Jaurès (1859–1914) – French anti-war activist, socialist leader
  • Kirthi Jayakumar (born 1987) – Indian peace activist and gender equality activist, youth peace activist, peace educator and founder of The Red Elephant Foundation
  • Zorica Jevremović (1948–2023) – Serbian playwright, theatre director, peace activist
  • Jigonhsasee – co-founder, along with The Great Peacemaker and Hiawatha, of the Iroquois Confederacy, she became known as the Mother of Nations among the Iroquois.
  • Tano Jōdai (1886–1982) – Japanese English literature professor, peace activist and university president
  • John Paul II (1920–2005) – Polish Catholic pope, inspiration, advocate
  • Helen John (1937–2017) – British activist, one of the first full-time members of the Greenham Common peace camp
  • Hagbard Jonassen (1903–1977) – Danish botanist and peace activist
  • Alice Jouenne (1873–1954) – French educator and socialist activist
  • Terasawa Junsei (born 1950) – Japanese Buddhist monk and peace activist


K

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  • Ekaterina Karavelova (1860–1947) – Bulgarian educator, writer, suffragist, feminist, pacifist
  • Tawakkol Karman (born 1979) – Yemeni journalist, politician and human rights activist; shared 2011 Nobel Peace prize
  • Randy Kehler (born 1944) – American pacifist, anti-war activist, imprisoned draft resister, tax resister, nuclear weapons freeze organizer
  • Helena Kekkonen (1926–2014) – Finnish peace activist and peace educator
  • Helen Keller (1880–1968) – American activist, deafblind writer, speech “Strike Against The War” Carnegie Hall, New York 1916
  • Kathy Kelly (born 1952) – American peace and anti-war activist, arrested over 60 times during protests; member and organizer of international peace teams
  • Petra Kelly (1947–1992) – German politician, feminist, pacifist
  • Bruce Kent (1929–2022) – British political activist, former Catholic priest; anti-nuclear campaigner with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and president of the International Peace Bureau
  • Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) – Pashtun independence activist, spiritual and political leader, lifelong pacifist
  • Wahiduddin Khan (1925–2021) – Indian Islamic scholar and peace activist
  • Abraham Yehudah Khein (1878–1957) – Ukrainian rabbi, essayist, pacifist
  • Steve Killelea – initiated Global Peace Index and Institute for Economics and Peace
  • Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) – American author, civil rights leader, and active in the anti-Vietnam war movement
  • Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) – Civil rights leader, American anti-Vietnam war protester
  • Anna Kleman (1862–1940) – Swedish suffragist and peace activist
  • Michael D. Knox (born 1946) – founder of US Peace Memorial Foundation, antiwar activist, psychologist, professor
  • Adam Kokesh (born 1982) – American activist, Iraq Veterans Against the War
  • Annette Kolb (1870–1967) – German writer and pacifist
  • Ron Kovic (born 1946) – American Vietnam war veteran, war protester
  • Paul Krassner (1932–2019) – American anti-Vietnam war organizer, writer, Yippie co-founder
  • Dennis Kucinich (born 1946) – former U.S. Representative from Ohio, advocate for US Department of Peace


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L

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M

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N

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O

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  • Phil Ochs (1940–1976) – American anti-Vietnam war singer/songwriter, initiated protest events
  • Paul Oestreich (1878–1959) – German educator, board member of the “German Peace Society” in 1921– 1926
  • Paul Oestreicher (born 1931) – German-born British human rights activist, Canon emeritus of Coventry Cathedral, Christian pacifist, active in post-war reconciliation
  • Yoko Ono (born 1933) – Japanese anti-Vietnam war campaigner in America and Europe
  • Ciaron O’Reilly (born 1960) – Australian pacifist, anti-war activist, Catholic Worker, served prison time in America and Ireland for disarming war material
  • Carl von Ossietzky (1889–1938) – German pacifist, Nobel peace laureate, the opponent of Nazi rearmament
  • Geoffrey Ostergaard (1926–1990) – British political scientist, academic, writer, anarchist, pacifist
  • Laurence Overmire (born 1957) – American poet, author, theorist


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P

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Q

  • Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941) – German pacifist, 1927 Nobel peace laureate


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R

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S

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T

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U



V

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  • Jo Vallentine (born 1946) – Australian politician and peace activist
  • Alfred Vanderpol (1854–1915) – French engineer, pacifist and writer
  • Mordechai Vanunu (born 1954) – Israeli whistleblower
  • Krista van Velzen (born 1974) – Dutch politician, pacifist and antimilitarist
  • Madeleine Vernet (1878–1949) – French educator, writer and pacifist
  • Llorenç Vidal Vidal (born 1936) – Spanish poet, educator and pacifist
  • Stellan Vinthagen (born 1964) – Swedish anti-war and nonviolent resistance scholar-activist
  • Louis Vitale (born 1932) – American anti-war activist and Franciscan friar
  • Bruno Vogel (1898–1987) – German pacifist and writer
  • Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) – American anti-war and anti-nuclear writer and protester


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W

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X

Y

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  • Stephen Yang (1911–2007) – Sichuanese surgeon, educator, Quaker peace activist
  • Peter Yarrow (born 1938) – American singer-songwriter, anti-war activist
  • Cheng Yen (born 1937) – Taiwanese Buddhist nun (bhikkhuni) and founder of Tzu Chi Foundation
  • Ada Yonath (born 1939) – Israeli Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009, pacifist
  • Yosano Akiko (1878–1942) – Japanese writer, feminist, pacifist
  • Edip Yüksel (born 1957) – Kurdish-Turkish-American lawyer/author, Islamic peace proponent
  • Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) – Pakistani peace advocate


Z

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  • George Benedict Zabelka (1915–1992) – chaplain to the aircrews that dropped the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki who later became a convert to the Christian gospel of nonviolence
  • L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917) – creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language, fascinated by the idea of a world without war
  • Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) – Cuban-born American historian, lawyer in international law and human rights, vociferous critic of military interventions and the use of torture
  • Angie Zelter (born 1951) – British anti-war and anti-nuclear activist, co-founder of Trident Ploughshares
  • Clara Zetkin (1857–1933) – German Marxist, feminist and pacifist
  • Else Zeuthen (1897–1975) – Danish peace activist and feminist
  • Howard Zinn (1922–2010) – American historian, writer, peace advocate
  • Arnold Zweig (1887–1968) – German writer and anti-war activist


See also

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Notes

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Citations

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Sources

  • NEWS, American peace activist killed by army bulldozer in Rafah


, Haaretz
,www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/american-peace-activist-killed-by-army-bulldozer-in-rafah-1.16010
, 17 March 2003, 6 July 2014
, {hide}harvid, Haaretz, 2003,
{edih}
  • MAGAZINE, A Call to Conscience


, Bodhi, Bhikkhu
, Bhikkhu Bodhi
, (Tricycle: The Buddhist Review)
,tricycle.org/magazine/buddhist-political-engagement/
, Fall 2018, 12 August 2019
,
  • NEWS, An Angel’s Song


, Chandran, Sudha
, The Gulf Today, Sharjah
, 24 November 2000
,
  • NEWS, No More ‘Evil Empire’


,
  • NEWS, Israeli peace pioneer Abie Nathan dies aged 81


, Associated Press
, Haaretz
,www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1015844.html
, 28 August 2008, 6 July 2014
, {hide}harvid, Haaretz, 2008,
{edih}
  • NEWS, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, painter, and founder of San Francisco’s City Lights bookstore, has died, aged 101


, Ludel, Wallace
, The Art Newspaper
, These experiences, particularly witnessing the aftermath of the Nagasaki bombing, turned Ferlinghetti into a lifelong pacifist and anti-war activist.
,www.theartnewspaper.com/news/lawrence-ferlinghetti-poet-painter-and-founder-of-san-francisco-s-city-lights-bookstore-has-died-aged-101
, limited
, 23 February 2021, 3 March 2021
,
  • WEB, Peace Summit Award 2008: Bono


, World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
,www.nobelpeacesummit.com/project/2008-bono/
, 12 December 2008, 16 June 2019
, {hide}harvid, Peace Summit Award, 2008,
{edih}
  • NEWS, Profile: Rachel Corrie


, BBC News
,www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19395651
, 28 August 2012, 6 July 2014
, {hide}harvid, BBC News, 2012,
{edih}
  • NEWS, ‘Prosecuting Evil’ Director Barry Avrich on the Race to Complete Nuremburg Trial Doc


,
  • NEWS, Lawrence Ferlinghetti: a veteran for peace


, Williams, Nadya
, Morning Star (British newspaper), Morning Star, Obituary
, The turning point in Ferlinghetti’s life came in late September 1945 as he walked the streets of Nagasaki, Japan, six weeks after an atomic bomb was dropped on the city by his country’s government. ... Among the 40,000 Japanese who were incinerated on the day of August 9 was one who was drinking tea at the time. ... Ferlinghetti picked up that person’s teacup; it had flesh and bone fused into it. The cup has now sat on the mantelpiece of his home for 75-and-a-half years. ... In all his prodigiously creative works, he never missed the opportunity to chastise the absurdity of materialism, the obscenity of war and the soullessness of profit-driven destruction.
,morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/lawrence-ferlinghetti-veteran-peace
, February 2021, 3 March 2021
,

Further reading

  • WEB, On the March: Women of the Peace Movement


, Schneidhorst, Amy, 2016
, National Women’s History Museum
,www.nwhm.org/exhibits/on-the-march
, 27 January 2022
, none
, {{Anti-war|state=uncollapsed}}{{Anti-nuclear movement}}

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