April Carter

April Carter (22 November 1937 – 16 August 2022) was a British peace activist.^[1][2] She was a political lecturer at the universities of Lancaster, Somerville College, Oxford and Queensland, and was a Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute from 1985 to 1987. She was an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, and a 'senior editor' on the international editorial board for the International Encyclopedia of Peace to be published by Oxford University Press (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), and was involved in early civil disobedience at nuclear missile bases. ^[3] In 1961 she was European coordinator for the San Francisco to Moscow March organised by the US Committee for Nonviolent Action, and 1961-62 was an assistant editor at the international pacifist weekly Peace News. During the revived nuclear disarmament 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). Carter died on 16 August 2022, at the age of 84.^[4]

Major works

• The Political Theory of Anarchism (Harper & Row, 1971) ISBN 978-0-06-136050-3
• Authority and Democracy (Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1979) ISBN 978-0-7100-0090-3
• Politics of Women's Rights (Longman, 1988) ISBN 978-0-582-02400-7
• 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 (Routledge, 2001 and 2006 in paperback). ISBN 978-0-415-16954-7 & ISBN 978-0-415-39944-9
• Direct Action and Democracy Today (Polity Press, 2004).^[5] ISBN 978-0-7456-2936-0
• People Power and Political Change: Key Issues and Concepts (Routledge 2012) ISBN 978-0-415-58049-6
• A Guide to Civil Resistance: Volume one: A Bibliography of People Power and Nonviolent Protest (Green Print, 2013) ISBN 978-1-85425-108-4
• A Guide to Civil Resistance: Volume two: A Bibliography of Social Movements and Nonviolent Action (Green Print, 2015) ISBN 978-1-85425-113-8

See also

• List of peace activists

References

1. "April Carter". Women in Peace. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
2. Rigby, Andrew; Rogers, Paul (2022). "Obituary: April Carter (1937-2022)". Journal of Resistance Studies. 8 (2): 134–138.
3. Richard K. S. Taylor. Against the Bomb : the British Peace Movement, 1958-1965. Oxford : Clarendon, 1988 (p. 132,170). ISBN 0-19-827537-4
4. "Rigby, Andrew | Peace News". peacenews.info. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
5. People Power and Protest since 1945: a bibliography of nonviolent action September 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine