page_title: List of peace activists
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hierarchical_section_title: List of peace activists / L
caption_attribution_description: English: Author: anonymous or pseudonymous, per EU Copyright Directive (1993), Article 1, §§1-4 This image was published not later than 1913 in conjunction with the Nobel Peace Prize. If anyone has information that an author's name was publicly disclosed in connection with this photograph, please make a note on this page and indicate where the author's name was seen to be publicly disclosed in connection with this image. Sources: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1913/fontaine-bio.html
context_page_description: This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usually work with others in the overall anti-war and peace movements to focus the world's attention on what they perceive to be the irrationality of violent conflicts, decisions, and actions. They thus initiate and facilitate wide public dialogues intended to nonviolently alter long-standing societal agreements directly relating to, and held in place by, the various violent, habitual, and historically fearful thought-processes residing at the core of these conflicts, with the intention of peacefully ending the conflicts themselves.
context_section_description: Henri La Fontaine (1854–1943) – Belgian initiator, organizer, Nobel Peace Prize winner
  Léonie La Fontaine (1857–1949) – Belgian feminist and pacifist
  William Ladd (1778–1841) – early American activist, initiator, first president of the American Peace Society
  Benjamin Ladraa (born 1982) – Swedish activist
  Bernard Lafayette (born 1940) – American organizer, educator, initiator
  Maurice Laisant (1909–1991) – French anarchist and pacifist
  George Lakey (born 1937) – American peace activist, co-founder of the Movement for a New Society
  Grigoris Lambrakis (1912–1963) – Greek athlete, physician, politician, activist
  Gustav Landauer (1870–1919) – German writer, anarchist, pacifist
  Lanza del Vasto (1901–1981) – Italian Gandhian, philosopher, poet, nonviolent activist
  Christian Lous Lange (1869–1938) – Norwegian historian and pacifist
  Alexander Langer (1946–1995) – Italian journalist, peace activist and politician
  George Lansbury (1859–1940) – British politician; Labour MP (1910–12, 1922–1940) – Labour Party Leader (1932-5); campaigner for social justice and women's rights and against war and imperialism; Christian pacifist; opposed WW1; campaigned for unilateral disarmament and world disarmament in the 1920s and 1930s; president of the Peace Pledge Union (1937);
  André Larivière (born 1948) – Canadian ecologist and anti-nuclear activist
  Bryan Law (1954–2013) – Australian non-violent activist
  Louis Lecoin (1888–1971) – French anarchist and pacifist
  Urbain Ledoux (1874-1941) - American diplomat, activist and Bahá'í
  John Lennon (1940–1980) – British singer/songwriter, anti-war protester
  Sidney Lens (1912–1986) – American anti-Vietnam war leader
  Muriel Lester (1885–1968) – British social reformer, pacifist and nonconformist; Ambassador and Secretary for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation; co-founder of the Kingsley Hall
  Captain Howard Levy – Army Captain sent to Leavenworth Military Prison for over two years for refusing an order to train Green Beret medics on their way to Vietnam.
  Bertie Lewis (1920–2010) – RAF airman who went on to become a U.K. peace campaigner
  Thomas Lewis (1940–2008) – American artist, anti-war activist with (Baltimore Four and Catonsville Nine)
  Bart de Ligt (1883–1938) – Dutch anarchist, pacifist and antimilitarist
  Gabriele Moreno Locatelli (1959–1993) – Italian pacifist
  Lola Maverick Lloyd (1875–1944) – American pacifist, suffragist, feminist
  James Loney (born 1964) – Canadian peace worker, kidnap victim
  Isabel Longworth (1881–1961) – Australian dentist and peace activist
  Lee Lorch (1915–2014) – Canadian mathematician and peace activist
  Fernand Loriot (1870–1932) – French teacher and pacifist
  David Loy (born 1947) - American scholar, author and Sanbo Kyodan Zen Buddhist teacher
  Chiara Lubich (1920-2008) Italian Catholic mystic and founder of Focolare movement, advocate of unity amongst Christians, interreligious dialogue and cooperative relations between religious and non-religious people. Promoted "universal fraternity".
  Rae Luckock (1893–1972) – Canadian feminist, peace activist and politician
  Sigrid Helliesen Lund (1892–1987) – Norwegian peace activist
  Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) – German marxist and anti–war activist
  Jake Lynch (born 1964) - peace journalist, academic and writer
  Staughton Lynd (born 1929) – American anti-Vietnam war leader
  Bradford Lyttle (born 1927) – prominent American pacifist, writer, presidential candidate, and organizer with the Committee for Non-Violent Action
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caption: Henri La Fontaine
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