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World Peace Association Collected Records, 1915-1964 (inclusive) 1941-1960 (bulk)

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0.08 linear ft. (1 linear in.)

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Conference on the Limitation of Armament Collected Records, 1921-1922 (inclusive)

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0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)

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Indochina Peace Campaign Collected Records, 1972

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0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)

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War Control Planners Collected Records, 1955-1990 (inclusive)

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0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)

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War Control Planners, chartered in 1963 in New York State, was organized by Harriet B. Kurtz and Howard G. Kurtz. Its purpose was to foster exploration and discussion of scientific and technical achievements to facilitate the protection of all nations against future wars.

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Witness for Peace Records, 1985- (inclusive)

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4.5 linear ft. (4.5 linear ft.)

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Witness for Peace was founded in 1983 and was headquartered in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the group was to work with the people of Central America by acting in continuous nonviolent resistance to U.S. covert or overt intervention in their countries and to help change U.S. policy to one which fostered justice, peace, and friendship with the countries of Central America. Although primarily Christian, WFP welcomed others of otherspiritual approaches but who agreed with WFP's objectives

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Woodrow Wilson Foundation Collected Records, 1922-1957 (inclusive) 1940-1949 (bulk)

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0.25 linear ft. (3 linear in.)

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Horace Champney Papers, 1958-1990 (inclusive) 1958-1979 (bulk)

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8.25 linear ft. (8.25 lin. ft.)

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Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.

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National Action/Research on the Military-Industrial Complex Records, 1969-1988 (inclusive)

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12 linear ft. (12 linear ft.)

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Walkabout Peace and Justice Records, 1981-1992 (inclusive)

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4.167 linear ft. ((11 containers))

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Walkabout Peace and Justice was first organized in 1985 in Davis, California, as an experimental project to provide a source of information for the peace-walking community. The group sponsored walks in support of issues related to peace and social justice; acted as a clearinghouse to provide information about other peace walks, mainly through its journal, Walkabout Peace and Justice. It's most siginficant organizer was Barbara Hirshkowitz, who later became a participant in New Society Publishers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Latin America Working Group Records, 1989- (inclusive)

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20.45 linear ft.

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Latin America Working Group was founded in 1983 as Central America Lobby Group, a project of the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy. It became a separate entity in 1988, under the name Central America Working Group, and changed its name in 1995 to Latin America Working Group to reflect its expanded mandate.

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