Social Justice & Peace

Peacebuilders in Type 4, sometimes called JustPeace activists, connect their social justice work explicitly to peace, war, violent conflict and militarism. The type includes indigenous activists working for demilitarization and land rights, activists challenging imperialism and colonialism, and those applying feminist peacebuilding and intersectional approaches to any peace or justice effort. Any activist from any justice movement can belong here, as long as the connection to peace, war, militarism or violent conflict is made explicit.

Peacebuilding approaches used by this type include:

  • Transforming gender norms associated with war and violence, including deconstructing militarized masculinities and advocating for women’s inclusion in peace processes
  • Demilitarizing policing, prisons, borders and immigration systems, often as part of racial justice activism
  • Anti-imperialism and anti-colonial resistance and solidarity, including challenging foreign interventionism and international solidarity for Palestine
  • Challenging military occupation and use of indigenous lands, and advocating for indigenous land rights and decolonization
  • Applying feminist thought and intersectional approaches to transform traditional peacebuilding and to link peace and demilitarization with social justice movements
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