Peace Protest Movement In The Vietnam War

War brings to people pain, loss, hurt, and regret. This was because of a number of things. The amount of money it was costing, the amount of disabled people, but it originated largely from the massacre. People always appreciate the peace when they suffered hard time in war. That’s why there are so many Peace Protest Movement when people disagreed with making war. Vietnam war is one of famous war which there are so many protesting organization in USA and all around the world that saw what was actually happening to innocent citizens who had done nothing wrong, as a result of unnecessary thing. In this paper, the view of CNVA - Committee for Non-Violent Action in USA is introduced to provide the incident that not show on television during the

involvement in Vietnam. They were using “the mobilization paradigm” - a theory to persuade others to commit reasonable goals. It’s a method where protesters share a common interest and gather together to fight for it. (Jasper) This demonstration was broken up by police and many protesters were arrested. This shows us the changes in the protests from peaceful demonstrations to more aggressive. As I mentioned earlier, the movements were mostly speeches and teach-ins. Since that proved US citizens disagree with more troops sent to Vietnam, the protesters became a little more violent in their anti-war movements. It’s impossible to prevent war and create peace. According to the book “Peace and Conflict Studies” ,the author said: “The problem of peaceful accommodation in the world is infinitely more difficult than the conquest of space, infinitely complex than a trip to the moon.” (Barash and Webel) In addition, there are 3 kinds of peace movements: movements to eliminate war in general, movements to stop particular aspects of war or particular weapons, and movements to stop particular wars . In this case, the movements is created to stop sending troops to Vietnam War. However, practically is sometimes different than Idealism, and also government has so much power in hand. Therefore, citizens should have the control over country, so that people have access to the ability to make a change for peace. It’s a hope of what a living democracy can look like. Then four days before 300 more special forces were sent to Vietnam, "a petition signed by more than five thousand college instructors was hand delivered to the State Department. It called for the U.S. to make every effort to secure a neutralized North and South Vietnam" (Davis, p.27). With all these protests and demonstrations going on, not just in New York or Washington but all around the U.S, their concerns were