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pacifism

opposition to war and violence
Intangible political_ideology Q58848
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Summary

pacifism is a political ideology[1]. pacifism draws 7,146 Wikipedia views per month (political ideology category, ranking #83 of 583).[2]

Key Facts

  • Named after: peace[3]
  • Subclass of: nonviolence[4]
  • Commons category: Pacifism[5]
  • Opposite of: bellicosism[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Pacifism[7]
  • Described by source: Lexikon der Anarchie[8]
  • Different from: antimilitarism[9]
  • Hashtag: pacifism[10]
  • Interested in: peace[11]
  • Practiced by: pacifist[12]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Politics[14], WikiProject Libertarianism[15], WikiProject Nonviolence[16], WikiProject Anti-war[17], WikiProject Ethics[18], WikiProject Philosophy[19], WikiProject Anabaptism[20], WikiProject Christianity[21]

Why It Matters

pacifism has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] pacifism is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

Abbie Hoffman Alexander Grothendieck Desmond Doss Emily Greene Balch Gene Sharp Jane Addams Jean Rostand Kurt Vonnegut Leo Tolstoy Lewis Fry Richardson Mahatma Gandhi Rosika Schwimmer Tenzin Gyatso The Iron Giant

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . dadaweb.de. Retrieved . dadaweb.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → pacifism
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Determination method or standard: record linkage, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260985|batch #260985]]"
  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003647-pacifismus
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003647-pacifismus, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  3. 18w ago · Legonin · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Larousse id → divers/wd/76006
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Larousse id: divers/wd/76006"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Named after → peace
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → nonviolence
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 1503, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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