Lokashakti Encyclopedia - Groups

Groups and organizations that have played significant roles in nonviolent movements
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American Friends Service Committee

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was founded during World War I in order to put into action the Quaker principles of peace and social justice. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947, the AFSC continues to searches for new ways to help the victims of war and injustice throughout the world.

Catholic Worker

Founded in 1933 by Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day, the Catholic Worker is a group of Christian anarchists engaging in radical service to the poor and bearing witness to violence and injustice. There exist Houses of Hospitality affiliated with the Catholic Worker in almost all 50 United States, and in numerous countries around the world.

Charter 77

A group of intellectual dissidents in communist-run Czechoslovakia formed Charter 77 on January 1, 1977, and helped fuel and inspire the reform movement that 12 years later would usher in the democratic era, through what became known as the Velvet Revolution.

Church of the Brethren

Emerging early on from the 16th-century Christian Anabaptist movement, the Church of the Brethren was founded in Zürich in 1525. It is considered one of the historic peace churches, and remains important in part because of its place in the ancestral lines of many present-day Mennonites and Amish.

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

A community-based worker organization based in Immokalee, Florida. Between 2001 and 2005, the CIW led a successful boycott against Taco Bell to demand fair wages and working conditions for largely immigrant farm workers.

Dasholi Gram Swarajya Mandal

The original Chipko (tree-hugging) campaign was started by the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Mandal in the 1970s and has since grown into a robust environmentalist movement encompassing hundreds of small, local campaigns to prevent logging and deforestation in India.

Fellowship of Reconciliation

The Fellowship of Reconciliation was founded in 1915 and has become one of the leading pacifist organizations in the United States and around the world. The FOR also fostered the growth of numerous other organizations practicing active nonviolence.

Greenham Common Women

Greenham Common Women are most famously known for leading large demonstrations in the early 1980s against nuclear weapons, centered around the Greenham Common United States Air Force base in Berkshire, England.

Industrial Workers of the World

Industrial Workers of the World is an international union based in Chicago, Illinois. Also known as the Wobblies or the IWW, the union was most popular in the decades around 1920, where it represented somewhere on the order of 100,000 members.

Khudai Khidmatgar

The Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God) was a group founded by Abdul Ghaffar Khan in the Northwest Frontier of British India. The group was notable for its regimented approach to nonviolence and its success in furthering the movement for Indian Independence.



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  • Bios   ( 24 )
    Inspirational noteworthy figures in the history of nonviolence, peace, and social justice
  • Groups   ( 24 )
    Groups and organizations that have played significant roles in nonviolent movements
  • Concepts   ( 18 )
    Important concepts related to peace and nonviolence, especially in regards to nonviolent action
  • Movements   ( 26 )
    Movements and historical events where nonviolent action was used entirely or in large part
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