September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, also known as 9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows or simply Peaceful Tomorrows, is an

anti-war An anti-war movement (also ''antiwar'') is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The term anti-war can also refer to pa ...

organization for survivors of the September 11, 2001 attacks and friends and family members of the victims. It aims to develop and advocate

nonviolent Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition. It may come from the belief that hurting people, animals and/or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and it may refer to a general philosoph ...

options and actions in the pursuit of justice, in the hope that this will help break what the members see as the cycles of violence engendered by

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and

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

. Peaceful Tomorrows was launched on February 14, 2002, at a press conference at the

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by Colleen Kelly and other members of families that had lost members in the 9/11 attacks who did not want their grief to justify attacks such as the

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bombing campaign in

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

, and to ensure that these actions would not be done in their names and the names of their loved ones.

The International Network for Peace

The International Network for Peace is a project that grew out of Peaceful Tomorrows’ groundbreaking international conferenc
"Civilian Casualties, Civilian Solutions"
which took place on September 11, 2006, the five-year anniversary of 9/11. In the weeks following, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows brought conference participants to speak at several public events at American universities.

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* * Anti–Iraq War groups Peace organizations based in the United States Aftermath of the September 11 attacks {{poli-org-stub

The International Network for Peace

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