Peace Action

Peace Action
FormationNovember 1957; 66 years ago (1957-11) (as SANE)
FoundersLenore Marshall
Norman Cousins
TypeNonprofit
Location
Executive Director
Jon Rainwater[1]
President
Kevin Martin
WebsitePeaceAction.org

Peace Action is a peace organization whose focus is on preventing the deployment of nuclear weapons in space, thwarting weapons sales to countries with human rights violations, and promoting a new United States foreign policy based on common security and peaceful resolution to international conflicts.

Peace Action believes that every person has the right to live without the threat of nuclear weapons, that war is not a suitable response to conflict, and that the United States has the resources to both protect and provide for its citizens.[2] Peace Action has over 100,000 members who belong to over 70 autonomous affiliate and chapter organizations.[3]

The name "Peace Action" was adopted in 1993 by SANE / FREEZE, which had been formed in 1987 by the merger of the Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (also known as "The Freeze").

  1. ^ Staff Directory, Peace Action.
  2. ^ Peace-Action About Peace-Action Archived 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved June 19, 2007
  3. ^ "The National Network". Archived from the original on 2007-07-18. Retrieved 2007-07-25.