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pursuer, an act of mercy that led to his recapture, after which he was burned at the stake near Asperen in the present-day Netherlands"><img alt="A 1685 illustration by Jan Luyken, published in Martyrs Mirror, of Dirk Willems saving his pursuer, an act of mercy that led to his recapture, after which he was burned at the stake near Asperen in the present-day Netherlands" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Dirk.willems.rescue.ncs.jpg/220px-Dirk.willems.rescue.ncs.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Dirk.willems.rescue.ncs.jpg/330px-Dirk.willems.rescue.ncs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Dirk.willems.rescue.ncs.jpg/440px-Dirk.willems.rescue.ncs.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6594" data-file-height="5283" /></a></span><div class="sidebar-caption">A 1685 illustration by <a href="/wiki/Jan_Luyken" title="Jan Luyken">Jan Luyken</a>, published in <i><a 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a 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href="/wiki/Christian_pacifism" title="Christian pacifism">Christian pacifism</a> or Biblical nonresistance. The term <b>historic peace churches</b> refers specifically only to three church groups among pacifist churches: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Brethren" title="Church of the Brethren">Church of the Brethren</a>, including all daughter churches such as the <a href="/wiki/Old_German_Baptist_Brethren" title="Old German Baptist Brethren">Old German Baptist Brethren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Old_Brethren" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Brethren">Old Brethren</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dunkard_Brethren" class="mw-redirect" title="Dunkard Brethren">Dunkard Brethren</a>;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious Society of Friends">Religious Society of Friends</a> (Quakers); and</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mennonites" title="Mennonites">Mennonites</a>, including the <a href="/wiki/Amish" title="Amish">Amish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beachy_Amish" title="Beachy Amish">Beachy Amish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Old_Order_Mennonite" title="Old Order Mennonite">Old Order Mennonites</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Mennonites" title="Conservative Mennonites">Conservative Mennonites</a></li></ul> <p>In addition to the Schwarzenau Brethren and Mennonites, other Anabaptist Christian fellowships, such as the <a href="/wiki/Hutterian_Brethren" class="mw-redirect" title="Hutterian Brethren">Hutterian Brethren</a>, <a href="/wiki/River_Brethren" title="River Brethren">River Brethren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Christian_Church" title="Apostolic Christian Church">Apostolic Christian Church</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bruderhof" class="mw-redirect" title="Bruderhof">Bruderhof</a> teach pacifism as well.<sup id="cite_ref-Jones1974_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jones1974-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bruderhof2022_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bruderhof2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>This phrase has been used since the first conference of the peace churches in Kansas in 1935.<sup id="cite_ref-Concise_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Concise-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The definition of "peace churches" is sometimes expanded to include <a href="/wiki/Christadelphians" title="Christadelphians">Christadelphians</a> (from 1863) and others who did not participate in the conference of the "historic peace churches" in Kansas in 1935.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The peace churches agree that <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> advocated <a href="/wiki/Nonviolence" title="Nonviolence">nonviolence</a>. Whether physical force can ever be justified in <a href="/wiki/Self-defense" title="Self-defense">defending oneself</a> is controversial. Most believers adhere strictly to a moral attitude of <a href="/wiki/Nonresistance" title="Nonresistance">nonresistance</a> in the face of violence. These churches generally concur that violence on behalf of nations and their governments is contrary to <a href="/wiki/Christian_morality" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian morality">Christian morality</a>, but agree that the teachings of Jesus were to explain the principles of the Kingdom of God rather than and contrasted with the ways of any earthly government. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peace_churches&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Deserter.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/The_Deserter.jpg/220px-The_Deserter.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/The_Deserter.jpg/330px-The_Deserter.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/The_Deserter.jpg/440px-The_Deserter.jpg 2x" data-file-width="656" data-file-height="456" /></a><figcaption><i>The Deserter</i> (1916) by <a href="/wiki/Boardman_Robinson" title="Boardman Robinson">Boardman Robinson</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Blessed_are_the_Peacemakers.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Blessed_are_the_Peacemakers.gif/220px-Blessed_are_the_Peacemakers.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="272" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Blessed_are_the_Peacemakers.gif/330px-Blessed_are_the_Peacemakers.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Blessed_are_the_Peacemakers.gif 2x" data-file-width="349" data-file-height="432" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Blessed_are_the_peacemakers" class="mw-redirect" title="Blessed are the peacemakers">Blessed are the Peacemakers</a></i> (1917) by <a href="/wiki/George_Bellows" title="George Bellows">George Bellows</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Among all Christian denominations, there have always been groups of members who advocate nonviolence, but certain churches have consistently supported it since their foundation. Besides the three historic peace churches, they include the <a href="/wiki/Amish" title="Amish">Amish</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Old_Order_Mennonites" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Order Mennonites">Old Order Mennonites</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Mennonites" title="Conservative Mennonites">Conservative Mennonites</a>, <a href="/wiki/Church_of_God_in_Christ,_Mennonite" title="Church of God in Christ, Mennonite">Holdeman Mennonites</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hutterites" title="Hutterites">Hutterites</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Old_German_Baptist_Brethren" title="Old German Baptist Brethren">Old German Baptist Brethren</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Old_Order_River_Brethren" title="Old Order River Brethren">Old Order River Brethren</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Brethren_in_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Brethren in Christ">Brethren in Christ</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas2014_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas2014-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and others in the <a href="/wiki/Anabaptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anabaptist">Anabaptist</a> tradition; <a href="/wiki/Doukhobors" title="Doukhobors">Doukhobors</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Molokan" class="mw-redirect" title="Molokan">Molokans</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Moroi2008_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moroi2008-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Dunkard_Brethren" class="mw-redirect" title="Dunkard Brethren">Dunkard Brethren</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>Dukh-i-zhizniki</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Bruderhof_Communities" title="Bruderhof Communities">Bruderhof Communities</a>, <a href="/wiki/Schwenkfelder_Church" title="Schwenkfelder Church">Schwenkfelders</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Moravian_Church" title="Moravian Church">Moravians</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Shakers" title="Shakers">Shakers</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and even some groups within the <a href="/wiki/Pentecostal" class="mw-redirect" title="Pentecostal">Pentecostal</a> movement.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The largest <a href="/wiki/Finished_Work_Pentecostal" class="mw-redirect" title="Finished Work Pentecostal">Finished Work Pentecostal</a> denomination, the <a href="/wiki/Assemblies_of_God" title="Assemblies of God">Assemblies of God</a>, abandoned pacifism around the time of the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> These groups have disagreed, both internally and with each other, about the propriety of <a href="/wiki/Non-combatant" title="Non-combatant">non-combatant</a> military roles, such as unarmed medical personnel, or performing non-battlefield services that assist nations in wartime, such as manufacturing munitions. One position might argue that Jesus would never object to helping people who are suffering, while another might object that doing so contributes indirectly to violence by freeing other people to engage in it. Most peace churches support alternative service options such as service to refugees or in hospitals, as long as they are not associated with the military. </p><p>In America the first conference of historic peace churches was held in 1935 in Kansas.<sup id="cite_ref-Concise_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Concise-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Five years later in Canada, the Conference of Historic Peace Churches was formed in Ontario in 1940, headed by <a href="/wiki/Harold_Sherk" title="Harold Sherk">Harold Sherk</a> to represent Mennonite, Brethren, and Quaker churches as they sought exemption from military service.<sup id="cite_ref-BiographicalDictionary1985_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BiographicalDictionary1985-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>At one time, active membership in and acceptance of the beliefs of one of the peace churches was required for obtaining <a href="/wiki/Conscientious_objector" title="Conscientious objector">conscientious objector</a> status in the United States, and hence exemption from military <a href="/wiki/Conscription" title="Conscription">conscription</a>, or for those already in the military, <a href="/wiki/Honorable_discharge" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorable discharge">honorable discharge</a>. But after a series of court rulings, this requirement was dropped. In the United States, one may now claim conscientious objector status based on a personal belief system that need not be Christian, nor even based on religion.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Peace churches, especially those with sufficient financial and organizational resources, have attempted to heal the ravages of war without favoritism. This has often aroused controversy, as when the Quakers sent large shipments of food and medicine to <a href="/wiki/North_Vietnam" title="North Vietnam">North Vietnam</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, and to U.S.-<a href="/wiki/Embargo" class="mw-redirect" title="Embargo">embargoed</a> <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>. The <a href="/wiki/American_Friends_Service_Committee" title="American Friends Service Committee">American Friends Service Committee</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mennonite_Central_Committee" title="Mennonite Central Committee">Mennonite Central Committee</a> are two charitable denominational agencies set up to provide such healing. </p><p>In the 1980s, the Quakers, Brethren, and Mennonites came together to create <a href="/wiki/Christian_Peacemaker_Teams" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Peacemaker Teams">Christian Peacemaker Teams</a>, an international organization that works to reduce violence and systematic <a href="/wiki/Injustice" title="Injustice">injustice</a> in regions of conflict.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This was motivated by the desire for Christians to take peacemaking as seriously as soldiers and governments take war-making.<sup id="cite_ref-sider_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sider-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_Christian_pacifist_groups">Other Christian pacifist groups</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peace_churches&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Other Christian pacifist groups"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Christian_pacifism" title="Christian pacifism">Christian pacifism</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Christadelphians,_1863"><span id="Christadelphians.2C_1863"></span>Christadelphians, 1863</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peace_churches&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Christadelphians, 1863"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Christadelphian" class="mw-redirect" title="Christadelphian">Christadelphians</a> are one of only a small number of churches whose identity as a denomination is directly linked to the issue of Christian pacifism.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Although the grouping which later took the name "Christadelphian" had largely separated from the <a href="/wiki/Campbellite" title="Campbellite">Campbellite</a> movement in Scotland and America after 1848, it was <a href="/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States" title="Conscription in the United States">conscription in the American Civil War</a> which caused their local church in <a href="/wiki/Ogle_County,_Illinois" title="Ogle County, Illinois">Ogle County, Illinois</a>, to register as <a href="/wiki/Conscientious_objectors" class="mw-redirect" title="Conscientious objectors">conscientious objectors</a> in 1863 under the name "Christadelphians."<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> When the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> was imminent Christadelphians in the British Empire took the same stance, though frequently faced military tribunals. During the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a> Christadelphians were exempted and performed civil work – though some of the small number of Christadelphians in Germany were imprisoned and one executed.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The position was maintained through the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a> and today.<sup id="cite_ref-gospelandstrife_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gospelandstrife-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-warandpolitics_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-warandpolitics-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Doukhobors">Doukhobors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peace_churches&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Doukhobors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Doukhobors" title="Doukhobors">Doukhobors</a> are a <a href="/wiki/Spiritual_Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiritual Christian">Spiritual Christian</a> denomination that advocate pacifism.<sup id="cite_ref-Guides2016_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guides2016-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 29 June 1895, the Doukhobors, in what is known as the "Burning of the Arms",<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> "piled up their swords, guns, and other weapons and burned them in large bonfires while they sang psalms".<sup id="cite_ref-Rak2005_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rak2005-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Holiness_Pacifists">Holiness Pacifists</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peace_churches&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Holiness Pacifists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmanuel Association">Emmanuel Association</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reformed_Free_Methodist_Church" title="Reformed Free Methodist Church">Reformed Free Methodist Church</a>, <a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Missionary_Church" title="Immanuel Missionary Church">Immanuel Missionary Church</a>, <a href="/wiki/Church_of_God_(Guthrie,_Oklahoma)" title="Church of God (Guthrie, Oklahoma)">Church of God (Guthrie, Oklahoma)</a>, First Bible Holiness Church and <a href="/wiki/Christ%27s_Sanctified_Holy_Church" title="Christ&#39;s Sanctified Holy Church">Christ's Sanctified Holy Church</a> are denominations in the <a href="/wiki/Holiness_movement" title="Holiness movement">holiness movement</a> known for their opposition to war today; they are known as "Holiness Pacifists".<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Emmanuel2002_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Emmanuel2002-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Alexander2011_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alexander2011-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BeamanPipkin2013_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BeamanPipkin2013-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Emmanuel Association, for example, teaches:<sup id="cite_ref-BeamanPipkin2013_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BeamanPipkin2013-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>We feel bound explicitly to avow our unshaken persuasion that War is utterly incompatible with the plain precepts of our divine Lord and Law-giver, and with the whole spirit of the Gospel; and that no plea of necessity or policy, however urgent or peculiar, can avail to release either individuals or nations for the paramount allegiance which they owe to Him who hath said, "Love your enemies." Therefore, we cannot participate in war (Rom. 12:19), war activities, or compulsory training.<sup id="cite_ref-BeamanPipkin2013_45-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BeamanPipkin2013-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Seventh-day_Adventist_Church,_1867"><span id="Seventh-day_Adventist_Church.2C_1867"></span>Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1867</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peace_churches&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1867"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adventists had sought and obtained exemption as conscientious objectors in 1864, and the <a href="/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church" title="Seventh-day Adventist Church">Seventh-day Adventist Church</a> from 1914 has a long history of <a href="/wiki/Non-combatant" title="Non-combatant">noncombatancy</a> service within and outside the military.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In practice today, as a pastor from the Seventh-day Adventist church comments in an online magazine run by members of the Seventh-Day Adventist church: "Today in a volunteer army a lot of Adventist young men and women join the military in combat positions, and there are many Adventist pastors electing for military chaplaincy positions, supporting combatants and non-combatants alike. On Veteran’s Day, American churches across the country take time to give honor and respect to those who “served their country,” without any attempt to differentiate how they served, whether as bomber pilots, Navy Seals, or <a href="/wiki/Operation_Whitecoat" title="Operation Whitecoat">Operation Whitecoat</a> guinea pigs. I have yet to see a service honoring those who ran away to Canada to avoid participation in the senseless carnage of Vietnam in their Biblical pacifism."<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Churches_of_God_(7th_day)"><span id="Churches_of_God_.287th_day.29"></span>Churches of God (7th day)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peace_churches&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Churches of God (7th day)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The different groups evolving under the name <a href="/wiki/Church_of_God_(7th_day)" class="mw-redirect" title="Church of God (7th day)">Church of God (7th day)</a> stand opposed to carnal warfare, based on Matthew 26:52; Revelation 13:10; Romans 12:19–21. They believe the weapons of their warfare to not be carnal but spiritual (II Corinthians 10:3–5; Ephesians 6:11–18).<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Molokans">Molokans</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peace_churches&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Molokans"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Molokan" class="mw-redirect" title="Molokan">Molokans</a> are a <a href="/wiki/Spiritual_Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiritual Christian">Spiritual Christian</a> denomination that advocate pacifism.<sup id="cite_ref-Hennacy2010_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hennacy2010-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They have historically been <a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians" title="Persecution of Christians">persecuted</a> for failing to bear arms.<sup id="cite_ref-Waters1999_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Waters1999-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Partially_pacifist_groups">Partially pacifist groups</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peace_churches&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Partially pacifist groups"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Community_of_Christ">Community of Christ</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peace_churches&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Community of Christ"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although non-credal and not explicitly pacifist, the <a href="/wiki/Reorganized_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter_Day_Saints" class="mw-redirect" title="Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints">Community of Christ</a> (formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) is emerging as an international peace church through such ministries as the <a href="/wiki/Community_of_Christ_International_Peace_Award" title="Community of Christ International Peace Award">Community of Christ International Peace Award</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Daily_Prayer_for_Peace" title="Daily Prayer for Peace">Daily Prayer for Peace</a>, and resources to support conscientious objection to war.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, in the United States and worldwide, many church members are active in military service and the church provides active duty chaplaincy for outreach and ministry to military personnel. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Churches_of_Christ">Churches of Christ</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peace_churches&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Churches of Christ"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Once containing a relatively large nonviolence faction, <a href="/wiki/Churches_of_Christ" title="Churches of Christ">Churches of Christ</a> are now more conflicted. Contemporary Churches of Christ, especially those that hold with the teachings of <a href="/wiki/David_Lipscomb" title="David Lipscomb">David Lipscomb</a>, tend toward pacifist views.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This means that they believe that the use of coercion and/or force may be acceptable for purposes of personal self-defense but that resorting to warfare is not an option open to Christians. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fellowship_of_Reconciliation">Fellowship of Reconciliation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peace_churches&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Fellowship of Reconciliation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As noted above, there are peace groups within most mainstream Christian denominations. The <a href="/wiki/Fellowship_of_Reconciliation" title="Fellowship of Reconciliation">Fellowship of Reconciliation</a> was set up as an organization to bring together people in these groups and members of the historic peace churches. In some countries, e.g. the United States, it has broadened its scope to include members of other religions or none, and people whose position is not strictly for nonviolence. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 June</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=The+Way+of+Peace&amp;rft.pub=Bruderhof&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bruderhof.com%2Fen%2Four-faith%2Ffoundations%2Four-calling%2Fthe-way-of-peace&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APeace+churches" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Concise-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Concise_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Concise_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites p6 Donald B. Kraybill – 2010 "In 1935, BRETHREN, Mennonites, and Quakers met in North Newton, Kansas, for a conference on peace. The term HISTORIC PEACE CHURCHES was developed at this conference in order to distinguish between the groups' biblically based peaceful ..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Brethren encyclopedia 1983 p608 "The American Civil War brought the peace churches together in combined appeals to government, both in the North and in the South ... This conference used the term historic peace churches as more acceptable to Mennonites than the term pacifist churches because the latter connoted theological liberalism. Called without prior agenda, the three-day meeting concluded with "</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mark Matthews <i>Smoke jumping on the Western fire line: conscientious objectors</i> p36 – 2006 "CHAPTER TWO The Historic Peace Churches – The three historic peace churches that united to lobby for reforming the treatment of conscientious objectors during World War II shared many religious beliefs, but they also differed in many "</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Speicher, Sara and Durnbaugh, Donald F. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2010-05-02</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=International+Fellowship+of+Reconciliation&amp;rft.pub=Ifor.org&amp;rft.au=Stan+Morris&amp;rft.au=Naomi+Bolderhey&amp;rft.au=Laura+Visser&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifor.org%2Fmission.htm&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APeace+churches" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peace_churches&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Driver, Juan (1970) <i>How Christians Made Peace With War: Early Christian Understandings of War</i>. Scottdale PA: Herald Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8361-3461-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-8361-3461-3">0-8361-3461-3</a></li></ul> <dl><dd>(1999) <i>Radical Faith</i>. Scottdale PA: Herald Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9683462-8-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-9683462-8-6">0-9683462-8-6</a></dd></dl> <ul><li>Friesen, Duane K. (1986) <i>Christian Peacemaking and International Conflict: A Realist Pacifist Perspective</i>. Scottdale: Herald Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8361-1273-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-8361-1273-3">0-8361-1273-3</a></li> <li>Lederach, John Paul (1999) <i>The Journey Toward Reconciliation</i>. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8361-9082-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-8361-9082-3">0-8361-9082-3</a></li> <li>Ruth-Heffelbower, Duane (1991) <i>The Anabaptists Are Back: Making Peace in a Dangerous World</i>. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8361-3552-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-8361-3552-0">0-8361-3552-0</a></li> <li>Sider, Ronald (1979) <i>Christ and Violence</i>. Scottdale PA: Herald Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57910-656-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-57910-656-0">1-57910-656-0</a></li> <li>Sampson, Cynthia (1999) "Religion and Peacebuilding." In <i>Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods and Techniques</i>; edited by I. William Zartman, and J. Lewis Rasmussen. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press.</li> <li>Stievermann, Jan. "A 'Plain, Rejected Little Flock': The Politics of Martyrological Self-Fashioning among Pennsylvania's German Peace Churches, 1739-65." <i> William and Mary Quarterly</i> 66.2 (2009): 287-324. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40212055">online</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Trocmé, André (1961) <i>Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution</i>; Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2003. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57075-538-8" title="Special:BookSources/1-57075-538-8">1-57075-538-8</a></li> <li>Wink, Walter, ed. (2000) <i>Peace is the Way: Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation</i>. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57075-315-6" title="Special:BookSources/1-57075-315-6">1-57075-315-6</a></li> <li>Van Dyck, Harry R. (1990) <i>Exercise of Conscience: A World War II Objector Remembers</i>. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87975-584-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-87975-584-9">0-87975-584-9</a></li> <li>McGrath, Willam (1980) <i>Why We Are Conscientious Objectors to War</i>. Millersburg, OH: Amish Mennonite Publications.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Horsch" title="John Horsch">Horsch, Joh</a> (1999) <i>The Principle of Nonresistance as Held by the Mennonite Church</i>. Ephrata, PA: Eastern Mennonite Publications.</li> <li>Brown, Dale (1985) <i>Biblical Pacifism: A Peace Church Perspective</i>. Elgin, IL: Brethren Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87178-108-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-87178-108-5">0-87178-108-5</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peace_churches&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100415233916/http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/H59ME.html">Historic Peace Churches</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Global_Anabaptist_Mennonite_Encyclopedia_Online" title="Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online">Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia</a></i></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070302195736/http://www.peacetheology.org/who.html">Who are the Historic Peace Churches (HPC)?</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ecapc.org/">Every Church a Peace Church</a> – organization working to create more peace churches</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bluffton.edu/~mastg/pacifism.htm">Writings on Christian Nonresistance and Pacifism from Anabaptist-Mennonite Sources</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bibleviews.com/Biblicalnonresist.html">Pacifism And Biblical Nonresistance</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nonresistance.info/">NonResistance.Org</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cascadiapublishinghouse.com/">Cascadia Publishing House</a> – Anabaptist-related publisher of Historic Peace Church 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href="/wiki/Women%27s_International_League_for_Peace_and_Freedom" title="Women&#39;s International League for Peace and Freedom">Women's International League for Peace and Freedom</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ideologies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ahimsa" title="Ahimsa">Ahimsa</a></li> <li>Anarchism <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anarcho-pacifism" title="Anarcho-pacifism">Anarcho-pacifism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anarcho-punk" title="Anarcho-punk">Anarcho-punks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_anarchism" title="Christian anarchism">Christian anarchism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-imperialism" title="Anti-imperialism">Anti-imperialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement" title="Anti-nuclear movement">Anti-nuclear movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antimilitarism" title="Antimilitarism">Antimilitarism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeasement" title="Appeasement">Appeasement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_pacifism" title="Christian pacifism">Christian pacifism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deterrence_theory" title="Deterrence theory">Deterrence theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Direct_action" title="Direct action">Direct action</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finvenkismo" class="mw-redirect" title="Finvenkismo">Finvenkismo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_politics" title="Green politics">Green politics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippie" title="Hippie">Hippie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isolationism" title="Isolationism">Isolationism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modern-war_pacifism" title="Modern-war pacifism">Modern-war pacifism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Non-interventionism" title="Non-interventionism">Non-interventionism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nonkilling" title="Nonkilling">Nonkilling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nonviolence" title="Nonviolence">Nonviolence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacificism" title="Pacificism">Pacificism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacifism" title="Pacifism">Pacifism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">Peace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyagraha" title="Satyagraha">Satyagraha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_influence_on_the_peace_movement" title="Soviet influence on the peace movement">Soviet influence on the peace movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Testimony_of_peace" title="Testimony of peace">Testimony of peace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_peace" title="World peace">World peace</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Media and cultural</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Anti-war_art" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Anti-war art">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_books_with_anti-war_themes" title="List of books with anti-war themes">Books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concert_Yutel_for_Peace" title="Concert Yutel for Peace">Concert Yutel for Peace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dances_of_Universal_Peace" title="Dances of Universal Peace">Dances of Universal Peace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Festival_for_Peace" title="Festival for Peace">Festival for Peace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_anti-war_films" title="List of anti-war films">Films</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imagine_Piano_Peace_Project" title="Imagine Piano Peace Project">Imagine Piano Peace Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Day_of_Non-Violence" title="International Day of Non-Violence">International Day of Non-Violence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Day_of_Peace" title="International Day of Peace">International Day of Peace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dialogue_Among_Civilizations" title="Dialogue Among Civilizations">Dialogue Among Civilizations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_peace_prizes" title="List of peace prizes">List of peace prizes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_peace" title="List of places named after peace">List of places named Peace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Peace_monuments_and_memorials" title="Category:Peace monuments and memorials">Monuments and memorials</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mother%27s_Day_Proclamation" title="Mother&#39;s Day Proclamation">Mother's Day Proclamation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize_Concert" title="Nobel Peace Prize Concert">Nobel Peace Prize Concert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace_museum" title="Peace museum">Museums</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace_%26_Love_(festival)" title="Peace &amp; Love (festival)">Peace &amp; Love (festival)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace_journalism" title="Peace journalism">Peace journalism</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Peace_News" title="Peace News">Peace News</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Promoting_Enduring_Peace" title="Promoting Enduring Peace">Promoting Enduring Peace</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace_One_Day" title="Peace One Day">Peace One Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_plays_with_anti-war_themes" title="List of plays with anti-war themes">Plays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Promoting_Enduring_Peace" title="Promoting Enduring Peace">Promoting Enduring Peace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Show_of_Peace_Concert" title="Show of Peace Concert">Show of Peace Concert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_anti-war_songs" title="List of anti-war songs">Songs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace_symbols" title="Peace symbols">Symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Non-Violence_Project" title="The Non-Violence Project">The Non-Violence Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_for_Peace" title="University for Peace">University for Peace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Peace_Bell_Association" title="World Peace Bell Association">World Peace Bell Association</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_Peace_Bell" title="Japanese Peace Bell">Japanese Peace Bell</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_Black" title="Women in Black">Women in Black</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_March_for_Peace_and_Nonviolence" title="World March for Peace and Nonviolence">World March for Peace and Nonviolence</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Slogans and tactics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bed-in" title="Bed-in">Bed-in</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Park_be-ins" title="Central Park be-ins">Central Park be-ins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_disobedience" title="Civil disobedience">Civil disobedience</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conflict_resolution" title="Conflict resolution">Conflict resolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counter-recruitment" title="Counter-recruitment">Counter-recruitment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/De-escalation" title="De-escalation">De-escalation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demilitarisation" title="Demilitarisation">Demilitarisation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Peace" title="Department of Peace">Department of Peace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desertion" title="Desertion">Desertion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Draft_evasion" title="Draft evasion">Draft evasion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Die-in" title="Die-in">Die-in</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_sanctions" title="Economic sanctions">Economic sanctions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flower_power" title="Flower power">Flower power</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Global_Day_of_Action_on_Military_Spending" title="Global Day of Action on Military Spending">Global Day of Action on Military Spending</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_Be-In" title="Human Be-In">Human Be-In</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lesson_of_Munich" title="Lesson of Munich">Lesson of Munich</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Make_love,_not_war" title="Make love, not war">Make love, not war</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Non-aggression_principle" title="Non-aggression principle">Non-aggression principle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance" title="Nonviolent resistance">Nonviolent resistance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Non_Violent_Resistance_(psychological_intervention)" title="Non Violent Resistance (psychological intervention)">Non Violent Resistance (psychological intervention)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace_walk" title="Peace walk">Peace walk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peacebuilding" title="Peacebuilding">Peacebuilding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Refusal_to_serve_in_the_Israel_Defense_Forces" title="Refusal to serve in the Israel Defense Forces">Refusal to serve in the Israel Defense Forces</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Soldiers_are_murderers" title="Soldiers are murderers">Soldiers are murderers</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swords_to_ploughshares" title="Swords to ploughshares">Swords to ploughshares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teach-in" title="Teach-in">Teach-in</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_whole_world_is_watching" title="The whole world is watching">The whole world is watching</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Party_Non-violent_Intervention" title="Third Party Non-violent Intervention">Third Party Non-violent Intervention</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Turning_the_other_cheek" title="Turning the other cheek">Turn the other cheek</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Violence_begets_violence" title="Violence begets violence">Violence begets violence</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tax_resistance" title="Tax resistance">War tax resisters</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Opposition to specific<br />wars or their aspects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>War of 1812 (<a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_the_War_of_1812_in_Britain" title="Opposition to the War of 1812 in Britain">UK</a>; <a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_the_War_of_1812_in_the_United_States" title="Opposition to the War of 1812 in the United States">US</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_the_American_Civil_War" title="Opposition to the American Civil War">American Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_the_Second_Boer_War" title="Opposition to the Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_World_War_I" title="Opposition to World War I">World War I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_World_War_II" title="Opposition to World War II">World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_United_States_involvement_in_the_Vietnam_War" title="Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_protests_against_the_Vietnam_War" title="List of protests against the Vietnam War">list of 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href="/wiki/Nuclear_disarmament" title="Nuclear disarmament">Nuclear disarmament</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_Day_for_the_Total_Elimination_of_Nuclear_Weapons" title="International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons">International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_convention" title="Nuclear weapons convention">Nuclear weapons convention</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Countries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Pacifism_in_Canada" title="Category:Pacifism in Canada">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Article_12_of_the_Constitution_of_Costa_Rica" title="Article 12 of the Constitution of Costa Rica">Costa Rica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacifism_in_Germany" title="Pacifism in Germany">Germany</a></li> <li><a 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