Working Group of Independent Peace Initiatives of Austria
The “Working Group of Independent Peace Initiatives” (ARGE UFI) was the most active Austrian support group working on the basis of the END appeal (“European Nuclear Disarmament” - movement for European nuclear disarmament) developed in England in 1980 . It existed between 1982 and 1989 - at a time when Europe was still divided by the bloc border and was dominated militarily and politically by the USA and the Soviet Union .
Due to the barely existing structure and - despite the small number - very large heterogeneity, the ARGE UFI could hardly be "politically categorized". The ARGE UFI presented itself as follows in a self-presentation, which can be found in the "Communications of the Unterland Peace Initiative" for the participants in an international peace camp on the occasion of the CSCE successor conference in Vienna in early November 1986:
“The Working Group of Independent Peace Initiatives (UFI) was founded on April 18, 1982 in Innsbruck on the initiative of UFI Vienna (which emerged from the unit of action for the peace march of June 27, 1981) and peace activists from western Austria. It consists of groups and individuals throughout Austria , regardless of blocs and parties. The basic document is the END (European Nuclear Disarmament) appeal, which calls on people to be 'loyal not to the East or West, but to one another'. Green alternatives (opponents of nuclear power plants, environmental movements), non-violent people (conscientious objectors and anti-militarists, Christian-motivated pacifists ), and independent leftists (former KPÖ members who left this party in 1968 in protest against the invasion of Prague, ' Eurocommunists ' ) work in the UFI. , undogmatic socialists, etc.) together. "
The UFI Vienna
The history of UFI Vienna goes back to the so-called “Long March for Peace” , which took place on June 27, 1981 in Vienna (Westbahnhof - Heldenplatz - Stephansplatz - Arenawiese) and in which around 5,000 people took part. The Heldenplatz was renamed "Friedensplatz" and an atomic bomb attack was simulated on Stephansplatz, during which the demonstrators lay on the ground for two minutes to commemorate the victims. The five main demands of the march were: For a nuclear-free and demilitarized Europe - from the Atlantic to the Urals ; For the right of every people to freedom, independence and self-determination; Conversion of the armaments industry - to civil and socially useful goods; Complete renunciation of the “civil” use of atomic energy; Against further militarization of our society.
The call was made primarily by groups from the anti-nuclear power plant sector (e.g. initiative of Austrian opponents of nuclear power plants, initiative trade unionists against nuclear power plants), from the Christian area (e.g. Catholic youth workers, Protestant student community, initiative for peace work in the Catholic university community ), from the pacifist-antimilitarist area (working group for community service, reconciliation union) and the independent left (e.g. trade union unity, movement for socialism). A part of this unit of action called itself "Peace March Committee 81" and organized a. a. from 16.-18. October 1981 a "Seminar for Disarmament and Peace" with a panel discussion (participants: the publicist Paul Blau , the railway workers' union Fritz Prechtl, the economist Kurt Rothschild and the German Green Dieter Burgmann) and a festival "Artists against War" with Otto Tausig and of the political rock group "The Butterflies" in the auditorium maximum of the Technical University.
There was broad agreement within the UFI on the question of the responsibility of the USA and the USSR for the arms race and the demand for the dissolution of the military blocs - a central concern of the " END Appeal ". This orientation in terms of content resulted in a contrast to the KPÖ - at that time still strictly loyal to Moscow - which, thanks to its organizational and financial strength, dominated most of Austria-wide peace plenums numerically. The UFI called for the demonstration against martial law in Poland on January 30, 1982 , with its own leaflet . The period from autumn 1981 to around mid-1983 could be described as the “confrontational phase” of the UFI, which was replaced by an “independent, internationally oriented phase” (mid-1983 to around 1988) in which the confrontation with the KPÖ was always one played a lesser role and, above all, projects and activities were carried out together with peace groups from other countries.
Between February 1982 and November 1984 a total of 10 issues of the UFI magazine, the "Friedensinfo", appeared, with the editorial team being relocated from Vienna to Innsbruck at the beginning of 1983. (The Vorarlberg UFI group had its own magazine, as did the “ Meeting Center for Active Nonviolence ” in Bad Ischl , which had existed since 1976 , and the “Villach Peace Committee” founded the “alpe-adria” magazine in 1986. The latter two continued to exist after the “Fall asleep” by ARGE UFI). The structure of the UFI in Vienna - working groups, plenary and a coordination committee - only worked for a short time at the beginning of 1982. With the leveling down to a “hard core” of 10 to 15 people, reasonably regular meetings were sufficient. Due to the loose initiative character (the UFI Vienna was never an association), speakers were never elected, and external appearance was not subject to any rules. In the first issue of "Friedensinfo", the UFI described itself as "a pretty 'mixed bag' of political organizations and individuals".
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The "confrontational phase" of the UFI (late 1981 to mid-1983)
During the preparation of the great nationwide peace demonstration on May 15, 1982 in Vienna - motto: “ Prevent nuclear war ! Disarm! ” - was the“ Peace March Committee 81 ”(or the UFI, as it called itself since the beginning of 1982) involved from the beginning and also represented in the coordination committee. However, the dominance of the KPÖ current was - although the platform was supported - also publicly shown, especially in a four-page special issue of the "Friedensinfo", which was published on May 15, 1982 at the nationwide peace demonstration in Vienna, in which around 70,000 people took part. was distributed. During this time, the focus of UFI Vienna's activities was on establishing contacts with initiatives in the federal states and on preparing the “Peace Movement and Human Rights Movement” seminar.
The step to found the ARGE UFI (Working Group of Independent Peace Initiatives Austria) was taken because there had been conflicts with KPÖ attempts to take possession of them in peace groups in other federal states. In addition, existing Austria-wide contacts between former activists of the movement against the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant led to UFI supporters all over Austria. On 17./18. In April 1982 the ARGE UFI was founded in Innsbruck , a second meeting took place on 19/20. June 1982 in Linz. In Innsbruck, 24 people from the federal states of Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna and Salzburg were present (in Linz also from Styria and Upper Austria). An appeal was made “Against the superpowers' preparations for war! Disarmament in East and West! ” Decided to mobilize for May 15th.
The groups and initiatives that joined the UFI Vienna in a loose association called ARGE UFI were a. the Innsbruck “Peace Initiative for Non-Alignment and Cooperation with the Third World” around parts of the editorial team of the left-alternative “Stattzeitung Rotes Dachl”, the Innsbruck association “VETO - Working Group for Peace and Environment”, the Feldkirch and Unterland peace initiatives (which are located in UFI Vorarlberg), the pacifist-alternative “Meeting Center for Active Nonviolence” from Bad Ischl (Upper Austria), the “Villach Peace Committee” from Carinthia and the “Women for Peace Graz” (on the initiative of Barbara Kasper, a UFI Graz was established in 1982 , which also included men from the AL and VSStÖ spectrum). The individuals who got involved with ARGE UFI included: B. Arno Truger from the Peace Research Institute Stadtschlaining (Burgenland), Wolfgang Schmidt from the left wing of the AL (Alternative List) from Salzburg and - at times - the political scientist Andreas Maislinger , who at the time the ARGE UFI was founded at the Austrian branch of the International Reconciliation Union in Vienna, civil service and founded the Austrian Memorial Service in 1992 .
The ARGE UFI Austria also had no fixed organizational structure and no elected chairmen or spokespersons. In Vienna, Vorarlberg, Tyrol and at times in Graz there were groups that called themselves UFI, the "Meeting Center" Bad Ischl and the "Villach Peace Committee" usually appeared under their names and only occasionally (on Austria-wide or international events) within the framework of the ARGE UFI. The UFI Innsbruck had around 30 activists in 1983/84 (in addition to the groups mentioned above, there were also members of the local ARGE Zivildienst and the Reconciliation Association), the UFI Vorarlberg was practically the only state peace initiative (i.e. clearly dominating the organizational structure of the peace movement in its state) .
The main activity of the ARGE UFI in 1982 was the organization of the seminar "Peace movement and human rights movement - two sides of the same coin?" On August 7, 1982 in the International Cultural Center (IKZ) in Annagasse in the 1st district of Vienna (approx. 50 participants ), followed by a panel discussion in the adult education center Stöbergasse (approx. 500 participants). The event was also documented in a brochure published by the Berlin-based “Verlag Europäische Perspektiven GmbH”. The original idea behind it was to use a planned “Vienna Peace Festival” organized by the ÖH ( Austrian Students' Union ) in August 1982 to conduct an “East-West basic dialogue” with the participants of several international peace marches, which also “represented Soviet civil rights -, Helsinki and nationality committees, Charter 77 , the independent trade union movement Solidarność , the GDR peace movement “ Swords to Plowshares ” and the Hungarian Basic Church ” .
However, since the groups addressed were unable to leave their real socialist countries at the time, the dialogue became one between the Western independent peace movement and exiled representatives of Eastern European opposition movements. Even after the “Vienna Peace Festival” was canceled (for financial reasons), peace marches came to Vienna from Scandinavia (via the USSR), from Germany, from London and from the Balkans, so the dialogue was organized on a somewhat smaller scale than originally planned.
Among the participants in the seminar in the IKZ were u. a. Hildegard Goss-Mayr (International Association of Reconciliation), Robert Jungk (futurologist), Hilde Koplenig (historian and former KPÖ member), Sophie Scheffler-Goll (women's peace march Berlin-Vienna), Franz Schneider (chairman of the Austrian section of " Amnesty International ") as well as Edward and Dorothy Thompson ( European Nuclear Disarmament , Great Britain), from the emigrated Eastern European opposition a. a. Algis Klimaitis (Lithuania, publisher of the “Osteuropa-Nachrichten” published in Vienna), Zdeněk Mlynář (“Charter 77”, Vienna), Jewgenij Nikolajew (Soviet independent trade unions), Krzysztof Podolczynski and Mieczyslaw Tarnowski (both “Solidarność”, then in Zurich ) and Michail Voslensky (Soviet Union researcher, in the West since 1972, author of the book “ Nomenklatura , the ruling class of the Soviet Union”). Ferenc Köszegi from the emerging peace group "Dialog" from Hungary had sent a written message. The discussion was led by the publicist Georg Breuer (UFI Vienna), who had already played an important role in the Austrian Easter march movement in the 1960s.
One of the suggestions that led to the holding of this seminar was a letter from “ Charter 77 ” to the Western peace movements on November 15, 1981. The discussion at the seminar was about two main presentations: Zdenek Mlynar spoke about the peaceful overthrow of the blocs and the Soviet bloc , Edward P. Thompson on the relationship between the peace movement and the human rights movement. Both in the seminar and in the sometimes very vigorous podium and audience discussion, the questions of who should speak to whom in Eastern Europe (Robert Jungk advocated trying to influence “officials”) became like an “Austrian solution for Europe "(Propagated by Thompson, understood as the withdrawal of US and Soviet troops) could be how much human rights should be made the main issue (Thompson admitted that the peace movement cannot" take care of every single case ") and whether it is if the regime in Eastern Europe were to criticize the policy of “ Cold War ”, it was controversial. With the seminar in Vienna, the ARGE UFI succeeded for the first time in bringing representatives of the Western peace and Eastern European human rights movements together for a dialogue and thus doing pioneering work in the field of "East-West dialogue".
Other activities of the UFI Vienna during this time were an action march through the inner city of Vienna on December 12, 1982 on the occasion of the anniversaries of the “ NATO double decision ” and the imposition of martial law in Poland, the call for action and participation in the organized by several groups Demonstration against the "Temporary Soldiers" project proposed by the then finance minister on April 16, 1983 and (together with other, mainly alternative groups) a "peace happening" with the symbolic destruction of (cardboard) rockets on June 20, 1983. An István Szent-Iványi from the independent Hungarian “Dialogue” group also took part in this action. He was in Vienna at the time (and years later he was to become State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, from 2004, a member of the European Parliament). Discussions on topics such as “ Alternative Defense Concepts ”, “Peace Movement and Alternative Movement” and “Peace and the Third World” took place in April 1983. The “Peace Appeal of the Austrian Bishops” of April 1983 was printed in a special issue of the “Peace Info”, which was distributed during the visit of Pope John Paul II in Vienna in September 1983, and was described as a “positive signal”, but with criticism of individuals Points (e.g. that militarization in Austria is not mentioned).
The "independent, internationally oriented phase" of ARGE UFI (mid-1983 to approx. 1988)
From around the middle of 1983 the policy of ARGE UFI changed: the criticism of the policy of the Soviet Union was no longer a primary concern of the UFI Vienna, but only one of several. An Austria-wide network was successful, and the increasing KPÖ dominance in the “official” structures of the “Austrian Peace Movement” (the name it chose itself) meant that groups that were less close to the ARGE UFI began to criticize it. The ARGE UFI increasingly concentrated on independent activities which it - if rejected by the plenary of the "ÖFB" - carried out together with similarly minded groups.
One of these activities was the human chain between the embassies of the USA and the USSR on the morning of October 22, 1983. In the summer of 1983, groups from Graz (Alternative List, Movement Against War, Women for Peace, VSStÖ, UFI and ÖH) wrote a letter Suggested to all groups of the Austrian peace movement, instead of a star march, to form a human chain between the embassies of the USA and the USSR, because a "simple repetition of the demonstration of May 15th of the previous year makes little sense" and a "rather boring and paralyzing thing" be. This proposal was discussed on August 28, 1983 at the plenary session of the "Austrian Peace Movement" in the Albert Schweitzer House (Vienna). Although representatives of ÖH Graz, Women for Peace Graz, AL Bad Ischl, Friedensinitiative Vorarlberg and AL Niederösterreich campaigned for this, “more than two thirds of those present spoke out against a human chain”. As a result, a number of independent initiatives to prepare the human chain met in Vienna on September 14, 1983, because they nevertheless wanted to hold it as a supplementary event. In a press conference on October 5, 1983, they expressly emphasized that the human chain was not a competition event for the demonstration with the motto “Indignant! No new nuclear missiles! For a nuclear-free Europe! " Was. 57 groups called for the formation of the human chain, the majority of which had also signed the platform for the (subsequent) second major Austrian peace demonstration. The demands - secure peace together, stop the arms race, enforce disarmament, realize human rights, dismantle enemy images - were deliberately kept general in order not to create a "counter-platform". Around 5,000 people joined the chain, which closed at 12:30 p.m. It was not in the interests of the organizers that the media coverage of the event showed primarily Helmut Zilk (then SPÖ Minister of Education) and Othmar Karas (then ÖVP member of the National Council) hand in hand on Stephansplatz and the visit of Barbara Kasper (women for den Frieden Graz) and Elisabeth Schwarz (Viennese organization against nuclear power plants) were kept secret in the Soviet embassy, while the reception of the delegation by US Ambassador Helene von Damm was well reported. The successful implementation of the human chain (despite the small number of participants compared to the 70,000 to 100,000 people at the subsequent demonstration), however, contributed to the realization that large peace actions could be carried out despite counter-propaganda by the KPÖ.
The next such activity was the campaign for the so-called “Villach Proposal” for a nuclear weapon-free and militarily diluted zone around Austria (1983–1985). It was worded as follows:
“In the near-border area around Austria, the following should apply in future: No rockets, aircraft or artillery that can also transport nuclear weapons. No storage of nuclear weapons or other means of mass destruction (e.g. poison gas ); No troops from the USA, the USSR or other foreign countries; Reduction of troop strengths and conventional armament to the minimum necessary for border protection among good neighbors; No military maneuvers. (...) That would be a first step towards a nuclear-weapon-free and peaceful Europe. "
The history: On April 14, 1983, the UFI Innsbruck, the Innsbruck Reconciliation Group and the Innsbruck Students' Union wrote an open letter to Tyrolean politicians and the government, demanding that they be stationed in Naz-Sciaves near Brixen (South Tyrol) and to defend tactical “Lance” nuclear missiles (range: less than 120 km) aimed at North Tyrol. UFI Innsbruck activists took part in an Easter march on April 4, 1983 at the NATO base in Naz-Sciaves.
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NatzSchabs peace march
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NatzSchabs Peace March conclusion
NatzSchabs Peace March conclusion
On June 17th, the aforementioned groups wrote a second open letter. In the summer of 1983 it was announced that the base had been abandoned and the missiles had been removed. How big the part of the peace movement actually was in this withdrawal is difficult to say, at least an awareness of the threat to Austria's borders had been created. At the same time, the " Villach Peace Committee" dealt with the weapons stationed in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and called for a nuclear-weapon-free Alpe-Adria region. By dealing with this topic, the Villach peace activists also became aware of the fact that tactical missiles of the types "Frog" and "Scud" were stationed in Hungary, which - like the Italian ones - due to their range only targets in neutral Austria and in can reach non-aligned Yugoslavia. This resulted in the “Villach proposal” which, in addition to the withdrawal of the rockets, also calls for a militarily diluted zone without foreign troops in a belt around Austria.
This proposal was the subject of a motion submitted by 14 independent, Christian and student groups at a conference of the “Austrian Peace Movement” on 28/29. January 1984 was introduced. It was rejected “by an overwhelming majority”. As a result, 25 organizations from Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland, Styria and Carinthia founded a working group on February 25, 1984 for further joint activities.
As a result, lobbying was carried out by the supporters of the “Villach Proposal”: it was personally presented to the then Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi during his visit to Vienna on February 15, 1984, to the Yugoslav Prime Minister Mika Spiljak (who let it be known that he was the The SPÖ International Secretary Peter Jankowitsch , Federal Chancellor Fred Sinowatz and Foreign Minister Leopold Gratz were addressed personally in discussions, the peace councils of the CSSR and Hungary were contacted by letter, the proposal was accepted at the 1st International Summer Academy of the Peace Research Institute at Schlaining Castle on July 10, 1984 and in the radio program “Im Brennpunkt” on November 16, 1985, etc. The signatories covered a very broad spectrum in Austria - roughly that of the human chain organizers, but even in the SPÖ Area (e.g. NR-Abg. J osef Cap and people from SJ and JG) - as well as a number of foreign signatories, from neighboring countries e.g. B. the Yugoslav Peace League, the Communist Party ( PCI ) from South Tyrol , the Italian left member of the European Parliament Luciana Castellina, the Swiss Peace Council, some members of the Bundestag of the German Greens and the SPD and the former Hungarian Prime Minister András Hegedüs . Several politicians and scientists gave substantive statements on it. Even if the “Villach proposal” was ultimately not implemented, it did stimulate the Austrian peace discussion and supplemented similar concepts such as the “Palme Plan” (a corridor free of nuclear weapons on both sides of the block border).
For ARGE UFI, numerous campaigns with peace groups from neighboring countries developed from the campaign . The most important of them:
January 1984: Events on the subject of "Peace Movement in Italy " in Vienna, Graz, Villach and Innsbruck together with the Austrian Students' Union, u. a. with Irmtraud Mair (Women for Peace Bolzano), Sergio Trevisan (Archivio Disarmo), Giacomo Cagnes (Peace Committee CUDIP, Comiso), Luciana Castellina (National Peace Committee CNCP) and Martin Köhler ( Action Atonement ).
April 21, 1984: Drive from Vienna via Wiener Neustadt to Heiligenkreuz in Lafnitztal (Burgenland) to the Hungarian border as a conscious link to the tradition of the "Easter marches" (also held annually in Austria from 1963 to 1968).
April 23, 1984 (Easter Monday): Austrian-Italian-German peace festival at the Europabrücke in Tyrol with “spontaneous” human chains over the bridge (approx. 1,000 to 2,000 participants, including around 700 from Italy).
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Painting the Europe Bridge
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Europe Bridge Music
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Europabrücke human chain
Europabrücke human chain
Europabrücke human chain
17.-21. July 1984: Organization of a workshop at the 3rd " END Conference in Perugia (Italy).
1st - 4th November 1984: “1. Alpe-Adria-Friedenscamp “with approx. 50 participants from Slovenia, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and the Hungarian Peace Council in Srednji vrh near Kranjska Gora (Slovenia). In addition to discussions on the subjects of nuclear-weapon-free zones , minority problems and solidarity with Nicaragua, there was also a peace march into the “no man's land” on the Yugoslav-Italian border. This cooperation led to further "Alpe-Adria peace camps" (the 2nd took place from November 1st to 3rd, 1985 in Rechberg near Eisenkappel in Southern Carinthia, the 3rd on May 1st and 2nd, 1987 in Trieste ). A product of the networking between peace and alternative groups in Carinthia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Slovenia was the magazine "alpe adria", which appeared for the first time in May 1986.
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Other activities of ARGE UFI with international participation (there were of course a number of purely Austrian activities such as participation in campaigns against the purchase of interceptors):
24.-27. May 1985: Peace camp in Laterns near Rankweil (Vorarlberg) with approx. 20 participants from Austria, Switzerland, Finland and France on the subject of “ neutrality ”.
March 1, 1986: UFI Vienna vigil in front of the Spanish embassy (with presentation of a letter) as an expression of solidarity with the Spanish peace movement before the NATO referendum (which unfortunately ended with a “yes” to NATO membership).
August 1986: “Peace bike tour” along the Danube from Budapest to Munich with Hungarian independent peace activists.
24.-28. September 1986: Co-preparation of the “Anti-Atom-International” conference in Vienna organized by some NGOs (design of a forum on the subject of “civil and military use of atomic energy”).
The last major activity of ARGE UFI in Vienna - partly in a unit of action with other, predominantly Catholic groups - was a series of events on the occasion of the beginning of the 3rd CSCE follow-up conference in Vienna on November 4, 1986 . a.
- the collaboration (mainly in the form of editing by Georg Breuer) on the memorandum “Filling the Helsinki Agreement with Real Life”, which was presented by the “European Network for East-West Dialogue” on November 3, 1986 in Vienna;
- a peace camp (approx. 70 participants from 8 countries) in Vienna from 1-3. November with workshops on the topics of human rights, cross-border ecological cooperation and disarmament as well as a party in the "Ensemble Theater" and a panel discussion on " Relaxation from below" with Dieter Esche (The Greens, Germany), Heinz Gärtner (Austrian Institute for International Politics, Laxenburg), Tomaz Mastnak (group for peace culture, Ljubljana), Jane Mayes ( Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament CND, Great Britain), Jiri Pelikan ("Listy" group, CSSR / Italy) and Eva Quistorp (women for peace Berlin), their Results were also published in a brochure;
- a rally with the title “KSZE: Act finally!” on November 3, 1986 with street theater action (“negotiation round”) on Stephansplatz, torchlight procession over Graben and Kohlmarkt to Josefsplatz and speeches by Erika Weinzierl (Austria), Yuri Medvedkov (“ Trust Group “, Moscow / USA) and Wim Bartels (IKV, Netherlands), with approx. 700 participants.
Smaller events and discussions were held by the UFI Vienna and the working group “Activities for the CSCE” (contact persons were Georg Breuer and Johannes Wancata / Catholic Youth) until the spring of 1987 ; on May 5, 1987 the last public appearance before the “ Austria Center Vienna ”, to which the CSCE had moved from the Hofburg . At a rally under the motto “CSCE: New House - New Ideas?” 3 demands were made: dismantling of medium-range missiles, active advocacy of Austria for the phase out of nuclear energy and recognition of the full right to conscientious objection in the final document of the Vienna successor conference.
The UFI Vorarlberg existed until around 1989/90 and on April 2, 1988 organized an “International Lake Constance Easter March for Peace and Environment” in Bregenz , in which around 3,000 people from Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Italy took part.
In the documents on the CSCE activities in 1986, ARGE UFI defined itself as “independent of blocs and parties”. But from 1986 a large part of the activists joined the Green Alternative or the Green Education Workshop and found a new “political home” there. The dismantling of medium-range missiles in Europe at the end of the 1980s (“INF Agreement” of December 1987) and the reform policy of the new Soviet state and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985/86 (which was implemented in 1991 even to the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the withdrawal of all Soviet troops from East Central Europe) contributed to the fact that the ARGE UFI finally ceased its activities because some of its goals had been achieved (or seemed to have been achieved at the end of the 1980s ).
literature
- Gerhard Jordan, European Nuclear Disarmament. The " END process" and its contribution to the East-West dialogue of the independent peace movements in Europe in the 1980s (diploma thesis at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, 1997).
- Andreas Maislinger , "New" Austrian Peace Movement (s). In: Austrian Yearbook for Politics 1983. Edited by Andreas Khol and Alfred Stirnemann. History and Politics publishing house, Vienna 1984.
- Andreas Maislinger , peace movement in a neutral country. To the new peace movement in Austria. In: Media Power in the North-South Conflict: The New International Information Order. Editor Reiner Steinweg . Friedensanalysen, 18th quarterly for education, politics and science. edition suhrkamp , Frankfurt / Main 1984.
- Georg Breuer : Flashback: a life for a world with a human face. Novum, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-902057-99-8 . (esp. pp. 207-244).