Peace camps are a form of physical
protest camp that is focused on
anti-war activity. They are set up outside
military bases by members of the
peace movement who oppose either the existence of the military bases themselves, the armaments held there, or the politics of those who control the bases. They began in the 1920s and then became world famous in 1982 due to the tremendous worldwide publicity generated by the
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. They were particularly a phenomenon of the
United Kingdom in the 1980s where they were associated with sentiment against
American imperialism but Peace Camps have existed at other times and places since the 1920s.