NO WAR! Voices for peace from civil society worldwide

Here you can see a compilation of different statements and voices from peace organizations around the world.

Say NO TO WAR!

-page constantly updated with new statements-

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Photo from Russia: NO WAR

• Statement by the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement:

The Ukrainian Pacifist Movement condemns all military actions by the sides of Russia and Ukraine in the context of the current conflict.
We call the leadership of both states and military forces to step back and sit at the negotiation table. Peace in Ukraine and around the world can be achieved only in a non-violent way. War is a crime against humanity. Therefore, we are determined not to support any kind of war and to strive for the removal of all causes of war.

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Photo from Ukraine: PEACE!

• Statement by the Movement of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service in Russia:

What is happening in Ukraine is a war unleashed by Russia.
The Conscientious Objectors Movement condemns the Russian military aggression. And calls on Russia to stop the war.
The Conscientious Objectors Movement calls on the Russian soldiers not to participate in hostilities. Do not become war criminals. The Conscientious Objectors Movement calls on all recruits to refuse military service: apply for alternative civilian service, be exempted on medical grounds.

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• French anti-militarists, pacifists, objectors, support objectors to the Russian Army

• Peace Commissioner of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) together with EAK and Connection: Grant protection and asylum to conscientious objectors and deserters from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus

• Statement of the European Humanist Federation (EHF): Russian deserters should be granted asylum

• "Asylum for those who refuse the war in Ukraine", Statement by the Finnish Union of conscientious objectors

• “No Means No”, Call to Belarusian Men to Refuse Recruitment to Fight for Russia in Ukraine, by "Nash Dom"

• Russia, Novaya Gazeta. newspaper against the war. Message from Nobel Prize-winning editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov
  "Early this morning we all gathered in the editorial office. We are in mourning.
  Our country, on the orders of President Putin, has started a war with Ukraine. And there is no one to stop the war. Therefore, along with grief, we feel shame.
  The commander-in-chief spins the "nuclear button" in his hands like a key ring on an expensive car. Is an atomic attack the next step? I cannot interpret Vladimir Putin's words on the weapon of retaliation in any other way.
  But we will publish this issue of Novaya Gazeta in two languages: Ukrainian and Russian. Because we do not recognise Ukraine as an enemy and the Ukrainian language as the language of the enemy. And we will never admit it.
  Last thing: only the anti-war movement of Russians can save life on this planet."
  Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Nobel Peace Prize laureate

• Joint statement of ICAN with Dmitry Muratov, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Russian journalist, condemning Putin's threats to use nuclear weapons in Novaya Gazeta.

• 300 Russian NGO reps write to #Putin:
  "We oppose the military actions that our country carries out on the territory of Ukraine. All our work is the struggle for human dignity, saving lives."

• Russians are against the war on Ukraine!

• Feminist Antiwar Resistance

• Statement of the Soldier mothers of St. Petersburg

• An open letter of scientists and scientific journalists against the war in Ukraine

• Action by the Food Not Bombs group in Moscow

• An appeal for peace by a group of 233 clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church

• There are groups in Telegram through which you can follow the activities of anti-war activists in Russia (in Russian):

  • https://t.me/femagainstwar

  • https://t.me/vesna_democrat

  • https://t.me/msk_vesna

• On Facebook, conscientious objectors' organizations update quite actively:

  • https://www.facebook.com/stoparmy

  • https://www.facebook.com/netprizyvu

• On Twitter about the anti-war movement, e.g.:

  • https://twitter.com/OvdInfo

  • https://twitter.com/doxa_journal

  • https://twitter.com/SotaVision

  • https://twitter.com/loljanordic

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• European Bureau for Conscientious Objectors - EBCO

• War Resisters International - WRI

• International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons - ICAN

• Pax Christi International

• International Peace Bureau - IPB

• "No war in Ukraine! No war anywhere!" by 31 organisations of the Service Civil International network

• "ICAN: Putin placing Russian nuclear weapons on high alert is reckless, dangerous"
  Japanese version: https://peaceboat.org/40596.html
  Italian version: https://senzatomica.it/senza-categoria/senzatomica-putin-che-mette-le-armi-nucleari-russe-in-massima-allerta-e-sconsiderato-e-pericoloso/

• ECCHR - European center for constitutional and human rights statement

• South Korea NGOs statement

• Pressenza

• ICBUW Statement on the war in Ukraine

• WCC acting general secretary to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow: “raise up your voice so that the war can be stopped”

• WCC appeals to Patriarch Kirill to raise up his voice for peace

• World BEYOND War supports efforts to organize public nonviolent actions

• GPPAC-Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict statement on Russia's war against Ukraine

• Nonviolence International calls for asylum for war resisters

• Pax Christi and other international NGOs join an appeal, at the Council of Europe, for peace, democracy, and action to resolve the war in Ukraine.

• War Resisters' International Statement: solidarity with all those nonviolently resisting the war in Ukraine

• Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC): Christians Say No War

• Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC): Christian Call for Peace

• War Resisters' International expresses solidarity with all those resisting war and its causes.

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Team members of Napoli and Barcelona hold a banner that reads, "Stop War" during the UEFA Europa League Knockout Round Play-Offs Leg Two match between SSC Napoli and FC Barcelona at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on February 24, 2022 in Naples, Italy. (Photo by SSC NAPOLI/SSC NAPOLI via Getty Images)

Farmers in the German town of Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, created this XXL peace sign (120 meters) with their tractors. instagram.com/westfalenblatt / Moritz Winde

*Click here to read about IFOR voice for peace