A broad movement opposed to preparations for war, especially a movement in Britain and western Europe attempting since the 1950s to bring about a reduction in or elimination of nuclear weapons.
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- We in the peace movement have been saying this for months.
- He's been involved with the peace movement and the environmental movement.
- The growing peace movement in this country is given very scant coverage by the media who seem incapable of counting beyond 500.
- There were school students and people who had never been on a demonstration before, as well as pensioners and veterans of the peace movement.
- He encourages the peace movement in Britain to continue the fight against these weapons of mass destruction.
- I had just left university in the early 1980s when I got swept up in the peace movement.
- He became a symbol for the international peace movement.
- But what was really amazing about the peace movement was its scope.
- The international peace movement needs to bring both to justice.
- His military past has given a new respectability to the peace movement, which used to be accused of being insufficiently patriotic.
- He is revered as an icon whose contribution to popular culture and the peace movement still resonates today.
- For the peace movement the past 14 months has witnessed a mixture of glorious highs and shattering lows.
- Other members of the peace movement will be canvassing in the constituency while she is behind bars.
- It is now urgent for the peace movement to be reawakened.
- This is why we in the peace movement know our protests are still relevant.
- The instructors here were more like members of the peace movement.
- The strange disappearance of the peace movement exposes the myth that it represented a new radical moment in British politics.
- The visit was conducted by two school governors who are members of a peace movement.
- Between 1968 and 1974, the popularity of the war plummeted, but so did that of the peace movement.
- That is a remarkable reversal of the situation before the war, when the peace movement was riding high.