Peace in Vietnam: a new approach in Southeast Asia; a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee (1966) By American Friends Service Committee
 
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is an international social justice organization with a mission based on Quaker philosophy. Founded in 1917 after the United States entered World War I, AFSC initially mobilized conscientious objectors and anti-war activists to support relief and reconstruction initiatives that served poor communities and war-torn countries.
In the late 1930s, before the start of World War II, AFSC assisted victims of the Nazis. A strong advocate of nonviolence, AFSC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947.
 
During the Vietnam War, AFSC was involved in a First Amendment case dealing with leafleting on a military base. In Flower v. United States (1972), the Court overturned the conviction of a member of AFSC who had been barred from advertising a meeting about the Vietnam War on a military base. The Court said that because the base commander had not restricted general access to the base, he could not restrict leafleting on the base.
 
Prepared by members of the Vietnam working party
 
Soft Cover
112 Pages
In Good Condition