Was Resisters' International

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The War Resisters' International (WRI) is a global network of anti-militarists , conscientious objectors and pacifists , originally founded in the Netherlands in 1921 under the name “Paco” (the Esperanto word for peace) Information currently about 90 organizations, clubs and associations in more than 40 countries belong to. The current seat of the WRI headquarters is in the British capital London .

Hands breaking rifle , in the variant shown from 1931 to the early 2010s WRI logo

The basis was and is the WRI declaration:

“War is a crime against humanity. I am therefore determined not to support any kind of war and to fight to eliminate all its causes. "
Wri 1923

One of the main tasks that WRI has set itself is to promote nonviolent action against the causes of war and to support and bring together people around the world who refuse to participate in war or to prepare for war. Since the 1968s in particular, there have been discussions within WRI on the question of nonviolence and revolution. To overcome violence and war, there were considerations about fundamental changes in society.

On this basis, WRI works for a world without war.

In 2004 WRI received the Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze Award.

German speaking members

Germany

Austria

  • [Working group for conscientious objection and nonviolence]
  • [Meeting Center for Active Nonviolence]

Switzerland

Member associations in other countries (selection)

International Newsletter The Broken Rifle

Since 1986, the magazine Das zerbelte Gewehr has been published at irregular intervals - about three to four times a year - as an international newsletter from War Resisters' International. It is published in German, English ( The broken rifle ), French ( Le fusil brisé ) and Spanish ( El fusil roto ) and primarily contains news and background information on peace and human rights activities around the world supported by WRI. The 100th issue of the magazine was published in October 2014. The editions and articles of the newsletter Das Zerbelte Gewehr published since December 1996 are available online on the WRI website.

literature

  • Wolfram Beyer : The War Resisters' International (WRI), the non-violent faction in revolutionary anti-militarism. In: Grassroots Revolution . Special issue: Social history of anti-militarism . No. 117/118, n.d. (1987).
  • Wolfram Beyer: War Resisters' International (WRI) the political insight of the WRI with special reference to the period 1921-1939. Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-9816536-4-9 . (1st edition 1985)
  • Wolfram Beyer (eds.): George Lakey, Michael Randle: Nonviolent Revolution - Contributions for a society without domination. Foreword by Ossip K. Flechtheim , afterword by Christian Bartolf . Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-926880-01-5 .
  • Wolfram Beyer (ed.): Resistance against the war, To the history of the WRI. Verlag Weber & Zucht , Kassel 1989, ISBN 3-88713-034-0 .
  • Wolfram Beyer: Pacifism and Antimilitarism. An introduction to the history of ideas. Butterfly Verlag , Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-89657-666-8 , Chapter 6 on non-violence, pp. 97ff.
  • Evangelical Working Group for Conscientious Objectors (EAK): Committed to fighting the nightmare of war. Documentation of the awarding of the Siegmund Schultze Prize for Nonviolent Action to War Resisters International, London UK. Self-published, Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-924644-36-5 .
  • Grassroots Revolution. Special issue: War Resisters International 1921–1996. From resistance to war to nonviolent revolution? Booklet 208/209, Oldenburg 1996, OCLC 82313558 .
  • For a non-violent, domineering society . Interviews with Helga Weber and Wolfgang Zucht . (Verlag Weber & Zucht). In: Bernd Drücke (Ed.): Yes! Anarchism. Lived utopia in the 21st century. Interviews and discussions. Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-87956-307-1 , pp. 114-146.
  • Devi Prasad: War Is A Crime Against Humanity. The Story of War Resisters' International. WRI, London 2005, ISBN 0-903517-20-5 .

Web links

Commons : War Resisters' International  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Official German language website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://wri-irg.org/de/taxonomy/term/608 | WRI member organizations: List of national sections and associated organizations of WRI worldwide
  2. ↑ Howard Clark: Nonviolence and Revolution - Ways to Fundamentally Change Society. International Publishers of War Service Opponents (IDK), Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816536-1-8 .
  3. ↑ ifgk.de
  4. ↑ denied.at
  5. ↑ Gegnungszentrum.at
  6. ↑ newprofile.org
  7. ↑ The Broken Gun magazine . German-language online presence, with links to the individual issues and articles since December 1996 (accessed on June 14, 2015)