Every nation’s constitution should guarantee the right to peace
Make Peace Movement advocates for peace clauses in the constitutions of every country.
Peace written into law outlasts the government that agreed to it
A peace clause is a constitutional provision that commits a state to resolving disputes without aggressive war.
Treaties can be withdrawn from, and policy changes with each election. A constitution is the slowest document a country owns: amending it usually demands a supermajority, a second reading, sometimes a referendum. Placing a commitment to peaceful settlement at that level does not make war impossible, but it changes who has to be convinced, how publicly, and how long that argument must be sustained before force can be used.
Such language already exists. Japan’s postwar constitution renounces war as a sovereign right in its ninth article. Costa Rica abolished its standing army by constitutional provision and redirected the spending. Germany’s Basic Law makes preparing a war of aggression unconstitutional. Ecuador, the Philippines and others carry related provisions. These are not identical texts, and their effects are argued over by scholars and citizens alike, which is exactly why the drafting deserves careful public attention rather than slogans.
Make Peace Movement works with lawyers, historians, teachers and organisers to compare that existing language, understand what it has and has not achieved, and support the people drafting the next version of it in their own country.
Comparative reading sessions run with volunteer legal researchers, who map how existing peace provisions were worded, debated and applied.
How we work across parliaments, classrooms and public squares
Three commitments hold the work together, from a first student assembly to a final constitutional reading.
Global advocacy
We work toward a peace clause written into the constitution of every country, one drafting process at a time.
Youth-led organising
Young organisers carry the case into schools, campuses and council chambers, with experienced advisers beside them.
Evidence-based argument
Every claim we make rests on comparative constitutional scholarship and the published record of existing clauses.
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