ABSTRACT
The strategy, tactics, goals and mobilization of movements and their organizations are closely interwoven. Peace movement strategy encompasses the communication, planning, and interaction connected to ends or goals. Strategy and goals are tightly linked concepts. The analytical frameworks of three leading peace movement strategists—Johan Galtung, Theodor Ebert, and E. P. Thompson—serve to outline the strategy and goals of the movement. Movement strategy, for Galtung, had to be elaborated within the context of fundamental systemic crises in both superpower empires: economic crisis in the West and political-ideological crisis in the East. There is a reinforcing character between weaponry and strategy that makes a focus solely on one or the other an inadequate peace movement strategy. The goals of the movement were not only wider-ranging than simple opposition to the missiles but they overlapped, they were common to diverse organizations. Attempts to mobilize around a broader set of goals risked splintering the highly diverse movement.
