Quakers

===International development===
International volunteering organisations such as [[Service Civil International]] and [[International Voluntary Service]] were founded by leading Quakers. [[Eric Baker (activist)|Eric Baker]], a prominent Quaker, was one of the founders of [[Amnesty International]] and of the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]].<ref>T. Buchanan, (2002) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3180761 The Truth Will Set You Free': The Making of Amnesty International.] ''Journal of Contemporary History'' 37(4) pp. 575–597</ref>

The Quaker [[Edith Pye]] established a national Famine Relief Committee in May 1942, encouraging a network of local famine relief committees, among the most energetic of which was the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, [[Oxfam]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Black |first1=Maggie |title=A Cause for Our Times: Oxfam – The First Fifty Years |date=1992 |publisher=Oxfam |page=9}}</ref> [[Irving Stowe|Irving]] and [[Dorothy Stowe]] co-founded [[Greenpeace]] with many other environmental activists in 1971, shortly after becoming Quakers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/history/amchitka-hunter/ |title=Greenpeace International: The History of Greenpeace |publisher=Greenpeace.org |date=2009-09-14 |access-date=2021-09-20 |archive-date=18 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118030237/http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/history/amchitka-hunter/ |url-status=live }}</ref>