pacifist ; pacifisme

En fredekær, fredsstifter, fredsmager, fredsmægler, forsoner. Organisationer og personer som fravælger alle former for krigsdeltagelse og som arbejder for fred med ikkevoldelige midler. Pacifister er militærnægtere og krigsmod­standere, uanset begrundelser for krigsførslen. Pacifisme er lige så gammel som krig. Nogle bliver pacifister som følge af deres krigsoplevelser.
Blandt pacifistiske organisationer kan nævnes Aldrig mere Krig ; the Anti-War Groupe of Nurses (Amsterdam) ; Christian Peacemaker Teams, Foreningen af anti­militaristiske præster ; Fredspolitisk Folkeparti ; the Friendly Association for Gaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures ; International Fellowship of Reconciliation ; International Pacifist Association ; International Peace Bureau ; Kvinder For Fred ; Kvækerne ; Mandæerne ; New Zealand Christian Pacifist Society ; Pacifist Relief Service ; Parliamentary Pacifist Group ; Peace Pledge Union ; Quaker Peace and Service ; The Standing Joint Pacifist Committee ; Union des Pacifistes de France ; The United States Pacifist Party ; die Weiße Rose ; WRI.
Blandt kendte pacifister er eksempelvis Joseph Abileah, Joan Abse, Jane Addams, Rickhard Alexander Almskoug, Aristofanis, Pat Arrowsmith, Walter A. Ayles,
Judi Bari, Archie Barrington ; Christian Bartolf, Albert Beale, Anthony Benezet, Walter A. Berendsohn, Emmanuel Berl, Aage Bertelsen, Harold Bing, Inger Bjørn Andersen, Lars Bjørnbak, Jenna Joya Blondel, Philmer Bluehouse, Kees Boeke, Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, Marlon Brando, Vera Brittain, Peter Brock, John Brocklesby, Tom Brown, Fritz Brupbacher, Elihu Burritt,
Pierre Ceresole, Peter Chelcický Howard Clark, Richard Cobden,
Thora Daugaard, Dorothy Day, David Dellinger, Narayan Desai, Meta Ditzel, Danilo Dolci, Guillaume-Henri Dufor,
Albert Einstein, Gwynfor Evans,
Berten Fermont, Abby Kelly Forster, George Fox, Tom Fox, Emill Flusser,
Johan Galtung, Walther Lionel George, Hildegard & Jean Goss-Mayr, Richard Grelling, Geert Grønnegaard, Thomas Grimké,
Keir Hardie, Albert Herbst, Ham Sok Hon, Tom Hurndall, Ellen Hørup,
Berthold Jacob, Jean Jaurès, Franz Jägerstätter,
Toyohiko Kagawa, Hermann Kallenbach, Ejnar Kampp, Norman Kember, Martin Luther King, Jesper Klein, Hebe Kohlbrugge, Anders Pedersson Kempe, Ellen Key, Heinz Kraschutzki, Friederich Kuhlau, Jesper Baltzarsen Könecken,
William Ladd, George Lansbury, Andreas Latzko, Bart de Ligt, Kathleen Lonsdale, Alfred Henry Love,
Marcel Martinet, Max Josef Metzger, Harry Mister, Kathleen Moore, Abraham Johannes Muste, Ronald G. Musto,
Georg Freiderich Nicolai, Juanita Nelson, Philiph Noel-Baker,
Carl von Ossietzky,
Georg Paish, Grace Paley, Gregorius Paulus, Luciano Pavarotti, Peace Pilgrim, Lindis Percy, Carl Heinrich Petersen, Rudolf Pikola, Axel Pille, Christian Frederick Post,
Ludwig Quidde, Mazin Qumsiyeh,
Raymond Rageau, Jeanette Rankin, Rudolph Rocker, Paul Robeson, Ebbe Rode, Igal Roodenko ; Henri Roser, Otto Roth, Josef Ruf, Bertrand Russell, Marla Ruzicka, Ulla Røder,
Sergeiy Sandler, Jean-René Sauliere, Carl Scharnberg, Charles Louis Seeger, Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Kurt Singer, Paul von Schönaich, Myrtle Solomon, Faustinus Socinus, Donald Soper, Augustin Souchy, Rose Pastor Stokes, Siegfried Sasson, Giuliana Sgrena, Keith Harmon Snow, Augustin Souchy, Joseph Haywood Stanley, Helene Stöcker, Nathan Söderblom, Henning Sørensen,
Jens Thoft, Mikael Tippet, Thomas Tryon, Leo Tolstoj, Marie Thøger,
Johannes Ude, Fritz von Unruh,
Lanza del Vasto,
Donald Edward Ward, Will Warren, Fritz Wartenweiler, Oskar Werner, Lawrence S. Wittner, Lilian G. Wolfe ; Noah Worchester, John de Wycliffe,
Angie Zelter, Peter Zimbrict, Stefan Zweig.

Se også: Antimilitarisme ; atompacifist ; Eirene ; fredsapostel ; fredsfange ; fredspræst ; forbrødring ; fredsven ; historiske fredskirker ; imaginær pacifist ; kvindesagen ; nationalpacifisme ; quaklerei.