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List of peace activists

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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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 source ↗
Uri Avnery source ↗

B

Medea Benjamin source ↗
James Bevel source ↗
Elise M. Boulding source ↗
José Bové source ↗
Caoimhe Butterly source ↗
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C

Helen Caldicott source ↗
Montserrat Cervera Rodon source ↗
Judy Collins source ↗
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Dorothy Day source ↗
David Dellinger source ↗
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Abdul Sattar Edhi source ↗
Hedy Epstein source ↗
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Ursula Franklin source ↗
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Mahatma Gandhi source ↗
Emma Goldman source ↗
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet on the 2006 United States Congressional Gold Medal source ↗
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Václav Havel source ↗
Brian Haw source ↗
Jessie Wallace Hughan source ↗
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Daisaku Ikeda source ↗
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Kirthi Jayakumar source ↗
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Tawakkol Karman source ↗
Martin Luther King Jr. source ↗
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Henri La Fontaine source ↗
John Lennon source ↗
Bertie Lewis source ↗
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Nelson Mandela source ↗
Rigoberta Menchú source ↗
Alaa Murabit source ↗
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Abie Nathan source ↗
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Billboard displaying Yoko Ono's artwork Imagine Peace source ↗
  • Violet Oakley (1874–1961) – American civic mural painter, advocate for the League of Nations and the United Nations
  • 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 Prize laureate, the opponent of Nazi rearmament
  • Geoffrey Ostergaard (1926–1990) – British political scientist, academic, writer, anarchist, pacifist
  • Laurence Overmire (born 1957) – American poet, writer, theorist
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Medha Patkar source ↗
Peace Pilgrim source ↗
Abbé Pierre source ↗
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Coleen Rowley source ↗
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Carl Sagan source ↗
Teresa Sarti Strada source ↗
Albert Schweitzer source ↗
Cindy Sheehan source ↗
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Thích Nhất Hạnh source ↗
Leo Tolstoy source ↗
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Jody Williams source ↗
Mien van Wulfften Palthe source ↗
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Cheng Yen source ↗
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Angie Zelter source ↗
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