| peace initiative | opening move in negotiating a peace treaty |
| motion movement move | the act of changing location from one place to another, police controlled the motion of the crowd, the movement of people from the farms to the cities, his move put him directly in my path |
| movement | the act of changing the location of something, the movement of cargo onto the vessel |
| troop movement | movement of military units to a new location |
motion
movement
move motility | a change of position that does not entail a change of location, the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise, movement is a sign of life, an impatient move of his hand, gastrointestinal motility |
fetal movement
foetal movement | motion of a fetus within the uterus (usually detected by the th week of pregnancy) |
| eye movement | the movement of the eyes |
disorderly conduct
disorderly behavior
disturbance of the peace
breach of the peace | any act of molesting, interrupting, hindering, agitating, or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled |
campaign cause crusade
drive movement effort | a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end, he supported populist campaigns, they worked in the cause of world peace, the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant, the movement to end slavery, contributed to the war effort |
| anti-war movement | a campaign against entering or continuing a war |
feminist movement
feminism
women's liberation movement
women's lib | the movement aimed at equal rights for women |
gay liberation movement
gay lib | the movement aimed at liberating homosexuals from legal or social or economic oppression |
youth movement
youth crusade | political or religious or social reform movement or agitation consisting chiefly of young people |
| peace march | a protest march against (a particular) war and in favor of peace |
calumet
peace pipe
pipe of peace | a highly decorated ceremonial pipe of Amerindians, smoked on ceremonial occasions (especially as a token of peace) |
| movement | the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock), it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement |
kinesthesis
kinaesthesis
kinesthesia kinaesthesia kinesthetics
muscle sense
sense of movement | the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body |
kinesthesia
kinaesthesia
feeling of movement | the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc |
Romanticism
Romantic Movement | a movement in literature and art during the late th and early th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization, Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality |
drift trend
movement | a general tendency to change (as of opinion), not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book, a broad movement of the electorate to the right |
| peace advocacy | any policy that advocates maintaining peaceful international relations |
Salafism
Salafi movement | a militant group of extremist Sunnis who believe themselves the only correct interpreters of the Koran and consider moderate Muslims to be infidels, seek to convert all Muslims and to insure that its own fundamentalist version of Islam will dominate the world |
pax
kiss of peace | (Roman Catholic Church) a greeting signifying Christian love for those assisting at the Eucharist |
peace
peace treaty
pacification | a treaty to cease hostilities, peace came on November th |
| Peace of Westphalia | the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in |
| movement | a major selfontained part of a symphony or sonata, the second movement is slow and melodic |
peace offering
olive branch | something offered to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace |
movement
motion | a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something |
crustal movement
tectonic movement | movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust |
periodic motion
periodic movement | motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same |
peace
peacefulness
peace of mind
repose
serenity
heartsease
ataraxis | the absence of mental stress or anxiety |
| Black September Movement | a former Palestinian terrorist organization (now merged with Fatah Revolutionary Council) that assassinated the Prime Minister of Jordan and during the Olympic Games in Munich killed Israeli athletes |
East Turkistan Islamic Movement
East Turkestan Islamic Movement | a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang, declared by China in to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression |
Hamas
Islamic Resistance Movement | a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon, seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel, is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel, pioneered suicide bombing |
Harkat-ul-Mujahidin
HUM
Harkat ul-Ansar
HUA
Harkat ul-Mujahedeen
Al Faran
Movement of Holy Warriors | an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the s, now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan |
Lautaro Youth Movement
Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement
Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces | a violent terrorist group organized in the s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government, leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
LTTE
Tamil Tigers
Tigers
World Tamil Association
World Tamil Movement | a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began inas a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students, currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam, relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel, the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war |
Tareekh e Kasas
Movement for Revenge | an organization of Muslims in India who killed Hindus in September , believed to have ties with Muslim terrorists in Pakistan |
Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Anaru
MRTA | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Peru, was formed in to overthrow the Peruvian government and replace it with a Marxist regime, has connections with the ELN in Bolivia |
| Peace Corps | a civilian organization sponsored by the United States government, helps people in developing countries |
movement
social movement
front | a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals, he was a charter member of the movement, politicians have to respect a mass movement, he led the national liberation front |
artistic movement
art movement | a group of artists who agree on general principles |
| Civil Rights movement | movement in the United States beginning in the s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens |
| cultural movement | a group of people working together to advance certain cultural goals |
| political movement | a group of people working together to achieve a political goal |
labor movement
trade union movement
labor | an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement |
| reform movement | a movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reforms |
| religious movement | a movement intended to bring about religious reforms |
| ecumenical movement | a movement aimed to promote understanding and cooperation among Christian churches, aimed ultimately at universal Christian unity |
Lubavitch
Lubavitch movement
Chabad-Lubavitch
Chabad | a large missionary Hasidic movement known for their hospitality, technological expertise, optimism and emphasis on religious study |