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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information about the key ideas, concepts, people, organizations and events related to anti-war movements, as well as articles about peace and nonviolent conflict resolution. Editors involved in the WikiProject collaborate with suggestions for tasks and projects regarding specific articles or groups of articles. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the tasks and projects below.

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We neither support, nor actively condemn, the promotion of an anti-war POV (or any other POV) in Wikipedia articles. Instead, we seek to bring articles on the anti-war movement and anti-war ideas up to Featured Article standard. This project is for those interested in various anti-war movements (just as Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket is for those persons interested in cricket).

As noted in the anti-war article the term anti-war is not completely clear. For the sake of this project 'anti-war' will denote any movement or ideology that opposes war in general or opposes specific wars or opposes the involvement of its country/government in war in general or specific wars. This definition is purposefully wide so as to cover all the various movements that have labelled themselves or have been labeled as anti-war. It also aims to include movements that have been or are currently labeled as 'Peace movements'.

The goals of this WikiProject are as follows:

1. To build as a community, contributors interested in documenting anti-war movements and ideas.
2. To identify areas which lack sufficient coverage.
3. To improve those articles which need help.
4. To provide guidelines for writing on anti-war articles and subjects on the 'pedia (with perhaps a view to providing guidelines to articles on Social movements in general).
5. To monitor pages prone to POV battles.

WikiProject Anti-war open tasks This project creates and improves articles related to anti-war activism. Collaboration of the month: Protests against the 2003 Iraq war Articles requested: Fredsinitiativet, May 1970 Student Strike Articles to improve: Stubs: Anti-war book, Peace activist, War Resisters League, World citizen. . . more Poor quality: Draft dodger, Satyagraha, War profiteer, Peace Action. . . more Needs work: Iran, Not In Our Name, Conscientious objector, World peace. . . more Near-featured: Feb15 protest, Kent State shootings, Nonviolence. . . more Featured: (None yet) other tasks |

To build the community:

• Join this project by adding your name to the list below
• Add this page to your watchlist, and keep up with what needs doing.

To identify and improve anti-war pages:

• Locate pages that need attention, then add them to the list below.
• Add the Tasks box to your User: or User_talk: page. (Add {{Anti-warTasks}} anywhere on the page. Or {{Anti-warTasksBox}} to get it in a box)
• Have a go at editing a page from the list below.

To provide guidelines for writing about anti-war topics

• Join in the discussion!

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Special events

Please note: the Militarisation of space was the Wikipedia-wide Wikipedia:Collaborations of the week|Collaboration of the week back in August 2005. There are also several Article Improvement Drive candidates that may be of interest, such as American Empire and Nuclear power phase-out. Go vote!

Collaboration of the month

Hopefully, each month the anti-war wiki-project will put particular focus on Wikipedia:Collaborations|collaborating to improve an article in need of attention.

Formerly: Opposition to the Vietnam War

To do:

Suggestions for next: anti-war film? Satyagraha? World citizen?

Previous: Protests against the invasion of Iraq ( see how it changed)

Counter the Anglo bias

Due to the demographic of its contributors the English language Wikipedia tends to have a systemic bias towards American and British topics. This project seeks to identify and fill the gaps in the documentation of anti-war projects that are not American or British.

To Do:

• Create articles on various non-English/non-American peace groups (e.g. Norwegian group: Fredsinitiativet [1], Swedish group Ofog)
• Find more information on demonstrations in these countries
• There should be a lot in the European anti-nuclear movement from the Cold War years.
• Clean up articles on Asian concepts for peace, such as Satyagraha and Ahimsa.
• User:Arnomane would volunteer in some weeks (after he has worked up his Todo-list in de.wikipedia) and would try to write something about the Peace movements in the former German Democratic Republic. In the meantime others could start already and try to translate articles from de.wikipedia into english, e.g. Schwerter zu Pflugscharen (translated: "swords into ploughshares").

Requested articles

• Jean Van Lierde [ fr - Belgian pacifist also associated with African nationalist movements

Candidates for deletion

(Please include new entries with dates AfD'd)

Non-notability threats potentially becoming deletion requests

• Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
• Jorge E. Hirsch - a physicist, famous for the h-index, vigorously opposed to an attack on Iran

Deleted

Does there exist a systematic bias for deleting anti-war articles when those anti-war articles concern organisations opposed to wars that are supported by Western governments and Western mainstream newspapers? Note that systematic bias does not imply evil intentions by wikipedians. Please help gather the evidence:

• Action Iran - nominated for deletion 20 Jan 2007 - deletion discussion; was deleted
• Iran Solidarity - nominated for deletion 20 Jan 2007 - deletion discussion; was deleted
• Don't Attack Iran Coalition - nominated for deletion 20 Jan 2007 - deletion discussion; was deleted
• List_of_locations_which_held_February_15,_2003_anti-war_protests - nominated for deletion 14 August 2007 - deletion discussion; was deleted
• Ryan Johnson (war resister)

Protests/demonstrations

For notable anti-war protests and/or demonstrations, the following format is recommended: "[Full date] anti-war protest".

For instance, the article for the large anti-war protest that occurred in Washington DC on September 24, 2005 is titled September 24, 2005 anti-war protest. Redirects to alternate titles may be made at one's own discretion.

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti-war/Assessment for information on quality and importance ratings. Note that there are currently two assessment systems as we convert to the Wikipedia 1.0 format. Articles with no quality rating listed here are rated on the new rating system.

Anti-War Events

• Cairo Anti-war Conference
• February 15, 2003 anti-war protest
• Halloween 2002 anti-war protest
• International Peace Conference
• January 20, 2005 counter-inaugural protest
• January 27, 2007 anti-war protest
• Kent State shootings (response to anti-war event)
• List of locations which held February 15, 2003 anti-war protests
• March 17, 2007 anti-war protest
• March 20, 2003 anti-war protest
• Million Worker March
• New York Draft Riots
• Protests against the invasion of Afghanistan
• Protests against the Iraq war
• September 24, 2005 anti-war protest
• Winter Soldier Investigation (Vietnam War)

Anti-War Projects & Longer-term Actions

• Arlington West (Iraq War cross displays)
• Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
• Human shield action to Iraq
• Lafayette hillside memorial (Iraq war crosses, etc.)
• Russell Tribunal

Anti-War Groups/Organizations

• List of anti-war organizations
• Anti-War Coalition
• A.N.S.W.E.R.
• Another Mother For Peace (new 11/08)
• Beheiren (defunct)
• Campaign Against Arms Trade
• Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
• Campus Antiwar Network
• Center on Conscience & War
• Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
• Code Pink
• Committee for Non-Violent Action (defunct)
• Committee of 100 (defunct)
• Concerned Officers Movement
• Consistent Life Ethic
• DC Anti-War Network
• Direct Action to Stop the War
• Fellowship of Reconciliation
• Friends of South Asia
• GI's Against Fascism
• Gold Star Families for Peace
• Gush Shalom
• Grandmothers for Peace
• Heavenly Culture World Peace Restoration of Light (HWPL)
• International Campaign to Ban Landmines (anti-war?)
• International Fellowship of Reconciliation
• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
• Iraq Veterans Against the War
• Methodist Peace Fellowship
• Military Families Against the War
• Military Families Speak Out
• Movement for a Democratic Military
• National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund
• National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
• No More War Movement
• Not in Our Name
• Oxford Research Group
• Operation Gandhi (defunct)
• Peace Action
• Peacemakers (defunct)
• Peace Pledge Union
• Physicians for Social Responsibility
• School Students Against War
• Southern Student Organizing Committee
• Spies for Peace (defunct)
• Students for Democracy and Peace
• September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
• Stop Our Ship (SOS)
• Stop the War Coalition
• Stop the War Committee
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• United for Peace and Justice
• Veterans for Peace
• Vietnam Veterans Against the War
• Voices For Creative Nonviolence
• War Resisters International
• War Resisters League
• Why War? (anti-war organization)
• Win Without War (this article has been blanked twice by POV pushers)
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• World citizen

Individual Anti-War Activists

Anti-War Related Media/Propaganda/Imagery

• Amy Goodman
• Anti-war book
• Anti-war film
• Democracy Now! (daily radio/television program)
• Pacifica Radio (alternative radio network)
• Peace News
• Peace symbol
• Protest song (not exclusively anti-war, separate article "Anti-war song"?)

General Anti-War

See also

Not directly covered by this project

The wars being opposed:

Iraq: U.S. plan to invade Iraq, American popular opinion of war on Iraq, Worldwide government positions on war on Iraq, The UN Security Council and the Iraq war, Iraq disarmament crisis

Vietnam: Vietnam War

Afghanistan: War in Afghanistan (2001–present); also, do we have an article on opposition in the Soviet Union to their war in Afghanistan?

Targeted killing- this fails to include the anti war view.

Other: Arms industry, Combat stress reaction, Conflict resolution, Gnadenhütten massacre, Militarism, Military-industrial complex, Ottawa Treaty, War economy, War profiteer,

• Reference material, a page for listing useful reference materials.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti-war/An Empirical Test of Transnational Opportunities, permission to quote "The February 15 Worldwide Protests against a War in Iraq: An Empirical Test of Transnational Opportunities" in Wikipedia.

• Template:Anti-war topics - For the top of anti-war articles, which places a narrow infobox along the article's right side.
• Template:WikiProject Anti-war - For the top of the talk page of all articles covered under this project.
• Template:User wikipedia/WikiProject Anti-war - For the userpages of project members, places a blue user box

Watchlist

• Related changes