Who's signed the call for peace?
Information last updated: May 14th, 2994
To date, 671 academics, activists and ordinary people have put their name to the call for peace, including MIT professor and activist Noam Chomsky, feminist theorist Donna Haraway, veteran peace organiser Peter Cadogan, anti-racist feminist activist Zillah Eisenstein. The specialist Social Movements Research Group has signed as a whole.
The call for peace isn't a petition, seeking to achieve the largest possible number of signatures, but a public statement on the part of researchers and teachers studying human conflicts and related issues, organisers and social movement participants working for a better world, and ordinary citizens.
To give a sense how diverse the range of signatories has become, this page includes lists of:
People from 34 countries in all 5 continents have signed this appeal:
- Argentina
- Australia
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- Catalonia
- Colombia
- Cyprus
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece / Hellas
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Lithuania
- Mexico
- Mozambique
- Netherlands
- New Zealand / Aotearoa
- Norway
- Portugal
- Romania
- Scotland
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- Turkey
- UK
- USA
- Wales / Cymru
Countries are listed as given by signatories. There are some overlaps where nationhood or statehood is contested.
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The signatories of the petition include researchers and teachers across the whole range of the social sciences, the humanities and the arts as well as many other academic fields. The list below is very partial, because signatories did not have to specify their field or department (around half did so), but the 32 different fields mentioned may give an indication of the breadth of expertise involved.
- Afro-American Studies
- Anthropology / Biological Anthropology / Cultural Anthropology / Social Anthropology
- Applied Social Studies / Social Care
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Art / Art history / Creative Studies
- Australian Studies
- Bioethics
- Biology / Entomology
- Cinematography / Film Studies
- Communications / Media Studies
- Community development
- Criminology
- Cultural Studies
- Development studies
- Economics / Ecological Economics / Political Economy
- Education / Experiential Education / Intercultural Education / Technology Education
- Engineering / Civil Engineering / Transport and Construction
- English
- Environmental Studies
- European Studies
- Geography / Human Geography
- History
- Human Development
- Information Technology / Computer Science
- Intercultural Studies / International Studies
- Journalism / Professional Writing
- Languages / Linguistics / Languages and Literature
- Law
- Library and Information Science
- Management Science
- Mathematics
- Medicine / Occupational Medicine / Human Development
- Musicology
- Nutritional Science
- Oriental and African Studies
- Pharmacology
- Philosophy
- Physics / Biophysics
- Physiotherapy
- Political Science / Government / Policy Studies
- Psychology / Social Psychology
- Religious Studies / Theology
- Social Policy
- Sociology
- Urban Planning
- Women's Studies / Gender Studies
Comparability of academic fields across countries and institutions is anything other than an exact science: apologies if we have inadvertently lumped together subjects that should not be assimilated!
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Those signing the petition include activists in a vast range of social movements committed to justice, peace, freedom and a better world. Groups, organisations and movements named work on issues including:
- Alternative and independent media and distribution
- Anarchism
- Animal rights and animal welfare
- Anti-globalisation and anti-corporate activism
- Anti-racism, immigrant and refugee support
- Anti-violence and victim support work
- Black rights
- Community development and community arts
- Car-free cities
- Critical education
- Economic justice and fair trade
- Ecumenical Christianity, Christian youth
- Engaged Buddhism
- Environmental and ecological issues
- Feminism
- Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights
- Grassroots democracy and anti-authoritarianism
- Home educators
- Human rights / civil liberties / anti-death penalty groups
- Intercultural projects
- Land rights
- Majority world development and solidarity
- Native rights / solidarity with indigenous peoples
- Networking and consultancy for social movements
- Peace, anti-war, justice and peace
- Political discussion
- Radical theatre
- Scientists / computer professionals for social / global responsibility
- Socialism
- South Asian activism
- Student groups
- Trade unions
- Unemployed rights and defence of the welfare state
- Vegetarian and vegan lifestyles
This is a very imperfect list of issues, as well as incomplete (many activist affiliations crossed movement and issue boundaries, while some were unidentifiable from the names or acronyms given). It's intended simply to give an idea of the range of movement activists who have signed the call for peace. Obviously there are many divergences within each category / issue listed here!
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All signatures are in a personal capacity only.
The full list of signatories is available here
To sign the call for peace, go to this page
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