April Carter (born 22 November 1937) was a British peace activist. She was a

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lecturer at the universities of Lancaster, Somerville College, Oxford and

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, and was a Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute from 1985 to 1987. She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies,

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, and a 'senior editor' on the international editorial board for the ''International Encyclopedia of Peace'' to be published by

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(New York). April Carter was active in the nuclear disarmament movement in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s, becoming Secretary of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War in May 1958 (just after it had organised the first

Aldermaston March The Aldermaston marches were anti-nuclear weapons demonstrations in the 1950s and 1960s, taking place on Easter weekend between the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in Berkshire, England, and London, over a distance of fifty- ...

), and was involved in early civil disobedience at nuclear missile bases. In 1961 she was European coordinator for the

San Francisco to Moscow March During the 20th century a number of peace walks were organized involving the citizens of the United States and the USSR. These peace walks, or peace marches, represented citizen diplomacy initiatives promoting peace and Nuclear disarmament throu ...

organised by the US Committee for Nonviolent Action, and 1961-62 was an assistant editor at the international pacifist weekly ''

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''. During the revived

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movement of the 1980s she was a member of the Alternative Defence Commission, which published an analysis of non-nuclear defence options for Britain in '' Defence Without the Bomb'' (Taylor and Francis, 1983)

Major works

*''The Political Theory of Anarchism'' (Harper & Row, 1971) *''Authority and Democracy'' (Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1979) *''Politics of Women's Rights'' (Longman, 1988) *''Success and Failure in Arms Control Negotiations (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute monographs) (Oxford University Press, 1989) *''Peace Movements'' (Longman, 1992) *''The Political Theory of Global Citizenship'' (

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, 2001 and 2006 in paperback). & *

Direct Action and Democracy Today ''Direct Action and Democracy Today'' is a 2005 book by April Carter. In the book, Carter debates the nature and meaning of social and political protest and discusses the relationship between direct action and people's claims for greater democra ...

(Polity Press, 2004).People Power and Protest since 1945: a bibliography of nonviolent action
*''People Power and Political Change: Key Issues and Concepts'' (Routledge 2012) *''A Guide to Civil Resistance: Volume one: A Bibliography of People Power and Nonviolent Protest'' (Green Print, 2013) *''A Guide to Civil Resistance: Volume two: A Bibliography of Social Movements and Nonviolent Action'' (Green Print, 2015)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, April Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford 1937 births Nonviolence advocates British anti–nuclear weapons activists Living people Academics of Coventry University

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