User:Linda Jane Hurcombe/sandbox

The Movement for the Abolition of War (MAW) was formed in 2001, following the Hague Appeal for Peace in 1999. The founder was Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He became the organization's first President. The founder Chair was Bruce Kent.

MAW challenges popular conceptions about the inevitability and acceptability of war, and seeks to raise awareness of the causes of war as well as offering constructive alternatives to armed warfare. The organization works to uphold and to spread the belief that humanity can evolve towards rejection of war as a way of solving humanity's problems, by providing resources and information, staging events, visiting schools and encouraging debate and dialogue on these issues with a diverse range of bodies. The membership of MAW is non-partisan, of all political and religious persuasions--or none, and is run entirely by volunteers.