Peace movement of the world

This topic is about the peace movements in many countries all over the world.

A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending if a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, including the ban of guns, and is often linked to the goal of achieving world peace. Means to achieving these ends include advocacy of pacifism, non-violent resistance, diplomacy, boycotts, demonstrations, peace camps; supporting anti-war political candidates and banning guns, creating an open government, direct democracy; supporting people who expose war-crimes or conspiracies to create wars and making laws. Different organizations in peace movements may have some diverse goals, but one common goal is the sustainability of pace.

The peace movement is basically an all-encompassing "anti-war movement". It is primarily characterized by a belief that human beings should not wage war on each other or engage in violent conflicts over language, race, natural resources, religion or ideology. It is believed that military power is not the proliferation of dangerous technologies and weapons of mass destruction, in particular, nuclear weapons and weapons of biological warfare. Moreover, many objects to the export of weapons including hand-held machine guns and grenades by leading economic nations to a lesser developed nation.

History of movement:

The first peace movement appeared in 1818-1816. The first such movement in the United States was the New York Peace Society, founded in 1815 by the theologian David Low Dodge, and the Massachusetts Peace Society. It became an active organization, holding the regular weekly meeting, and producing literature which was spread as far as Gibraltar and Malta, describing the horrors of war advocating pacifism on Christian grounds. The London Peace Society (also known as the society for the promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace) was formed ion 1816 to promote permanent and universal peace by the philanthropist William Allen. In the 18140s, British women formed  'Olive  Leaf Circles' groups of around 15 to 25 women, to discuss and promote pacifist ideas. The peace movement began to grow in influence by the mid-nineteenth century. The London Peace Society, under the initiative of American consul to Birmingham, Elihu Burritt, and the Reverend Henry Richard, convened the first International Peace Congress decided on two aims: the idea of peaceable arbitration in the affairs of nations and the creation of an international institution to achieve that.

Afterword, peace organizations were set up in many countries. The United Nations was founded with the primary objective to maintain peace and resolve inter-state conflicts in the world. Many treaties have been signed between many nations, a noteworthy one of which is the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Everyone wants peace and likes principles of non-violence.