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See also: Anti-war movement and Peace movement

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.

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B. R. Ambedkar
Uri Avnery

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Medea Benjamin
James Bevel
Elise M. Boulding
José Bové
Caoimhe Butterly
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Helen Caldicott
Montserrat Cervera Rodon
Judy Collins
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Dorothy Day
David Dellinger
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Abdul Sattar Edhi
Hedy Epstein
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Mahatma Gandhi
Emma Goldman
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet on the 2006 United States Congressional Gold Medal
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Václav Havel
Brian Haw
Emily HobhouseAldous Huxley
Jessie Wallace Hughan
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Daisaku Ikeda
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Kirthi Jayakumar
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Tawakkol Karman
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Henri La Fontaine
John Lennon
Bertie Lewis
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Nelson Mandela
Rigoberta Menchú
Alaa Murabit
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Abie Nathan
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Billboard displaying Yoko Ono's artwork Imagine Peace
  • 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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Medha Patkar
Peace Pilgrim
Abbé Pierre
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  • Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941) – German pacifist, 1927 Nobel peace laureate
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Nicholas RoerichArundhati RoyÓscar RomeroBertrand Russell
Coleen Rowley
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Carl Sagan
Teresa Sarti Strada
Albert Schweitzer
Cindy Sheehan
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Thích Nhất Hạnh
Leo Tolstoy
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Jody Williams
Mien van Wulfften Palthe
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Cheng Yen
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Angie Zelter
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Citations

  1. Colburn 1988.
  2. Bodhi 2018.
  3. Peace Summit Award 2008.
  4. Chandran 2000.
  5. Haaretz 2003.
  6. BBC News 2012.
  7. Tangcay 2020.
  8. Ludel 2021.
  9. Williams 2021.
  10. University of Rochester press release: Prof. Robert L Holmes named to Mercer Brugler Distinguished Professorship Oct. 14, 1994 Robert L. Holmes on rochester.edu/news
  11. The Ethics of Nonviolence: Essays by Robert L. Holmes. Holmes, Robert L. Cicovaki, Predrag – Editor. Bloomsbury Publishing New York 20 June 2013 ISBN 9781623569624 ROber L. Holmes on Google books
  12. Pacifism: A Philosophy of Nonviolence. Holmes, Robert L. Bloomsbury Publishing New York 2017 ISBN 978-1-4742-7982-6 Robert L. Holmeson Google Books
  13. Haaretz 2008.

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