List of peace activists

Brian Haw

Samantha Smith

John Lennon

Thomas

Jody Williams

James Bevel

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Peace Pilgrim

Henri La Fontaine

Dorothy Day

Rigoberta Menchu

David Dellinger

Cindy Sheehan

This list of peace activists includes people who proactively advocate or 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 peace movement to focus the world's attention on the irrationality of violent conflicts, decisions, and actions. They thus initiate and facilitate wide public dialogues aimed at nonviolently altering long-standing societal agreements directly related to, and held in place by, the various irrational, violent, habitual, and historically fearful thought-processes residing at the core of these conflicts, with the intention of peacefully ending the conflicts themselves.

• Jane Addams (1860-1935) - American, national chairman Woman's Peace Party, president Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• Eqbal Ahmad - anti-war activist
• Martti Ahtisaari - former president of Finland, active in conflict resolution
• Stew Albert - anti-Vietnam war activist, organizer
• Widad Akrawi (1969) - Danish-Kurdish peace advocate, organizer
• Émile Arnaud - French peace campaigner, coined the word "Pacifism"
• Vittorio Arrigoni
• Joan Baez - prominent American anti-war protester, inspirational singer
• Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) - American, a leader of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• Ernesto Balducci
• Harry Belafonte - anti-war, performer, inspiration
• Daniel Berrigan - prominent anti-Vietnam war protester
• Philip Berrigan - prominent anti-Vietnam war protester
• James Bevel (1936-2008) - prominent American anti-Vietnam war leader, organizer
• Vinoba Bhave - Indian, Gandhian, teacher, author, organizer
• Vera Brittain
• Ven. Alex Bruce ('Tenpa') - law academic and Buddhist monk
• Elihu Burritt
• Helen Caldicott - physician, anti-nuclear weapon, initiator
• Jimmy Carter - negotiator, organizer, international conflict resolution
• Noam Chomsky - writer, activist, organizer
• Ramsey Clark - American anti-war and anti-nuclear lawyer, activist
• William Sloane Coffin - American cleric, anti-war activist
• James F. Colaianni (1922) - author, publisher, first anti-Napalm organizer
• Judy Collins - inspirational anti-war singer/songwriter, protester
• Rachel Corrie
• David Cortright
• Norman Cousins - journalist, author, organizer, initiator
• Frances Crowe - anti-war and anti-nuclear power, draft counselor
• Rennie Davis - prominent anti-Vietnam war leader, organizer
• Dorothy Day
• David Dellinger - American pacifist, organizer, prominent anti-war leader
• Élie Ducommun
• Mel Duncan
• Sheikh Haron - Australian Muslim cleric, anti-war activist
• Shirin Ebadi
• Albert Einstein - pacifist, anti-nuclear advocate
• Daniel Ellsberg - American anti-war whistleblower, protester
• James Gareth Endicott - initiator, organizer, protester
• Jodie Evans - initiator, organizer, filmmaker
• Jane Fonda - American anti-war protester, actress
• Tom Fox
• Comfort Freeman
• Alfred Fried - co-founder German peace movement, called for world peace organization.
• Arun Gandhi - Indian, organizer, educator, grandson of Mohandas
• Mohandas Gandhi - Indian, writer, organizer, protester, inspiration to movement leaders
• Allen Ginsberg - American anti-war protester, writer
• Arthur Gish
• Emma Goldman (1869-1940) Russian/American activist imprisoned in the U.S. for opposition to World War I
• Mikhail Gorbachev - Russian anti-nuclear activist during and after Soviet presidency
• Dick Gregory - American comedian, anti-war protester
• Tenzin Gyatso - current Dalai Lama, advocate for peace
• Otto Hahn - pacifist, anti-nuclear weapons and testing advocate
• Judith Hand - anti-war writer, academian
• Thich Nhat Hanh
• G. Simon Harak
• Keir Hardie
• Václav Havel - nonviolent writer, poet, and politician
• Brian Haw - initiated and long time participant, Parliament Square Peace Campaign
• Tom Hayden - American anti-war organizer, writer, lecturer
• Sidney Hinkes
• Emily Hobhouse
• Abbie Hoffman - American anti-Vietnam war leader, co-founder of Yippies
• Julia Ward Howe - writer, advocate, organizer
• Aldous Huxley - anti-war and anti-conflict writer
• Khawaja Zafar Iqbal- Pakistani
• Pope John Paul II - Catholic Pope, inspiration, advocate
• Kathy Kelly
• Robert F. Kennedy - American anti-Vietnam war U.S. presidential candidate
• Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan- Pakistani, called "Frontier Gandhi" by the Indians
• Steve Killelea - initiated Global Peace Index and Institute for Economics and Peace
• Martin Luther King Jr. - American pastor, prominent anti-Vietnam war protester, inspiration
• Ron Kovic - American Vietnam war veteran, protestor of war
• Paul Krassner - American anti-Vietnam war organizer, writer, Yippie co-founder
• Henri La Fontaine - initiator, organizer, Nobel Peace Prize winner
• William Ladd (1778–1841) - early American activist, initiator, first president of the American Peace Society
• Bernard Lafayette - American organizer, educator, initiator
• Grigoris Lambrakis - Greek athlete, physician, politician, activist
• George Lansbury
• John Lennon - British singer songwriter of activist songs, anti-war protestor
• Sidney Lens - American anti-Vietnam war leader
• Tom Lewis - American artist, anti-war activist with (Baltimore Four and Catonsville Nine)
• James Loney - peace worker kidnap victim
• Staughton Lynd - American anti-Vietnam war leader
• Bradford Lyttle (1927) - prominent American pacifist, writer, presidential candidate, and organizer with the Committee for Non-Violent Action
• Norman Mailer - American anti-war writer, protestor of war
• Mairead Corrigan Maguire - Northern Ireland peace movement, Nobel Prize winner
• Bob Marley - Jamaican, inspirational anti-war singer/songwriter, inspiration
• Eugene McCarthy - U.S. presidential candidate, ran on an anti-Vietnam war agenda
• George McGovern - U.S. Senator, presidential candidate, anti-Vietnam war agenda
• David McTaggart
• Rigoberta Menchú (1959) - Guatemalan indigenous rights, anti-war, co-founder Nobel Women's Initiative
• Thomas Merton - inspirational writer, philosopher
• Barry Mitcalfe
• A.J. Muste - American pacifist, organizer, anti-Vietnam War leader
• Abie Nathan
• Paul Newman - American anti-war protestor, inspiration
• Phil Ochs - American anti-Vietnam war singer/songwriter, initiated protest events
• Yoko Ono - Japanese anti-Vietnam war campaigner in America and Europe
• Laurence Overmire - poet, author, theorist
• Olof Palme - Swedish prime minister, diplomat
• Linus Pauling - anti-nuclear testing advocate and leader
• Concepcion Picciotto - anti-nuclear and anti-war protestor, White House Peace Vigil
• Peace Pilgrim - walked the highways and streets of America promoting peace
• Lindis Percy
• Jeannette Rankin
• Marcus Raskin
• Dahlia Ravikovitch
• Henry Richard
• Oscar Romero
• Jerry Rubin - American anti-Vietnam war leader, co-founder of the Yippies
• Bertrand Russell - anti-nuclear bomb activist, philosopher
• Carl Sagan
• Mark Satin - anti-war proponent, draft-resistance organizer, writer, philosopher
• Sophie Scholl
• Pete Seeger - anti-war protestor, inspirational singer/songwriter
• Jeff Sharlet - anti-Vietnam war soldier, journalist
• Gene Sharp - nonviolent writer and academian
• Cindy Sheehan - anti-Iraq and anti-Afghanistan wars
• Martin Sheen - anti-war and anti-nuclear bomb protestor, inspirational American actor
• Percy Shelley - writer, poet, nonviolent philosopher and inspiration
• Dick Sheppard
• Toma Sik
• Jeanmarie Simpson
• Ramjee Singh - Indian peace activist, philosopher and Gandhian
• Samantha Smith - young advocate of peace between Soviets and Americans
• Benjamin Spock - anti-Vietnam war protestor, writer
• Olaf Stapledon
• Cat Stevens
• Bertha von Suttner - writer, organizer, Nobel's inspiration for Nobel Peace Prize
• Tank Man - Stood in front of tank during China protest
• Eve Tetaz
• Thomas - initiated, long-time participant, White House peace vigil
• Ellen Thomas - long-time participant, White House peace vigil
• Henry David Thoreau - writer, philosopher, inspiration to movement leaders
• Leo Tolstoy - Russian writer on nonviolence, inspiration to Gandhi, Bevel, and other movement leaders
• Benjamin Franklin Trueblood - 19th century writer, editor, organizer, initiator
• Desmond Tutu - South African cleric, initiator, anti-apartheid, inspiration
• Jo Vallentine
• Mordechai Vanunu
• Lanza del Vasto - Gandhian, anti-war, anti-nuclear
• Sérgio Vieira de Mello
• Kurt Vonnegut - prominent American anti-war and anti-nuclear writer and protestor
• John Wallach
• Alfred Webre - cooperation in space advocate, other activities
• Owen Wilkes - New Zealand peace researcher and activist
• Jody Williams - American anti-landmine advocate and organizer, Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Brian Willson
• Lawrence S. Wittner - peace historian, researcher, and movement activist
• John Howard Yoder
• Neil Young - singer/songwriter, anti-war advocate, other causes
• Edip Yuksel Kurdish-Turkish-American lawyer/author, Islamic peace proponent.
• Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
• Howard Zinn - historian, writer, and peace advocate

See also

• Anti-war
• Bed-In
• Die-in
• Direct action
• Gandhi Peace Award
• Gandhi Peace Prize
• List of anti-war organizations
• List of anti-war songs
• List of books with anti-war themes
• List of civil rights leaders
• List of peace prizes
• Nobel Peace Prize laureates
• Non-interventionism
• Nonviolence
• Nonviolent resistance
• Nuclear disarmament
• Open Christmas Letter
• Pacifism
• Parliament Square Peace Campaign
• Peace
• Peace and conflict studies
• Peace churches
• Peace movement
• Teach-in
• War resister
• War Resisters League
• White House Peace Vigil
• World peace