Abstract
Responses to a comprehensive national survey of peace movement organizations belies claims that pacifist groups have abandoned their commitment to nonviolence and condone revolutionary violence. Rather, the peace movement can be divided into four segments based on the strength of commitments to nonviolence and pursuit of social justice: pacifist/social justice, pacifist/not social justice, not pacifist/ social justice, and not pacifist/not social justice. Only the not pacifist/ social justice groups had any tendency to condone violence. Among pacifist groups, only a minority in the pacifist/social justice segment were ready to condone revolutionary violence in certain circumstances. These results suggest no consensus on the issue, but continued wrestling with the problem of trying to advance non-violence and social justice simultaneously.
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