The International Confederation for Disarmament and Peace was an organisation formed by peace groups from western and non-aligned

Non-Aligned Movement

The Non-Aligned Movement is a group of states considering themselves not aligned formally with or against any major power bloc. As of 2011, the movement had 120 members and 17 observer countries...

 nations in 1963.

As a result of confrontation between western and Soviet delegates at the 1962 World Congress for Peace and Disarmament, which was organised by the USSR-backed World Peace Council

World Peace Council

The World Peace Council is an international organization that advocates universal disarmament, sovereignty and independence and peaceful co-existence, and campaigns against imperialism, weapons of mass destruction and all forms of discrimination...

, non-aligned peace organisations decided to form an international body that would be independent of the World Peace Council. The founding conference of this body was attended by delegates from forty organizations.

The founding organizations were:

• Accra Assembly Continuing Committee
• Aktionsgruppen Mot Svensk Atoombomb
• American Friends Service Committee
  American Friends Service Committee
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• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Friendensverbande
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
  Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
  The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is an anti-nuclear organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...
  
   (UK)
• Canadian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
• Colleges and Universities CND (UK)
• Combined CND Groups and New South Wales and Queensland Peace Committee
• Combined Universities Campaign (Canada)
• Comite 1962 voor de Vrede
• Committee of 100 (United Kingdom)
• Committee on Non-Violent Action
  Committee for Non-Violent Action
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• Consulta della Pace
• European Federation Against Nuclear Arms
• Fellowship of Reconciliation and War Resisters (Belgium)
• Friends Peace Committee (UK)
• Gandhi Peace Foundation
• Greek Peace Committee
• International Fellowship of Reconciliation
  International Fellowship of Reconciliation
  The International Fellowship of Reconciliation is an international faith-based nonviolent movement created shortly after the First World War, in 1919, to draw together national Fellowships of Reconciliation that had been founded during the war....
  
  
• International Liaison Committee of Organizations for Peace
• Irish CND
• Kampagnen mod Atomvaben
• Kampanjen mot Atomvapen
• Komiteen for Oplysning om Atomfaren
• National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
• National Peace Council
  National Peace Council
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   (UK)
• New Zealand CND
• P.S.U (France)
• Peace Pledge Union
  Peace Pledge Union
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• Schweizerische Bewegung Gegen Die Altomare Anfrustung
• Society for Social Responsibility in Science
• Student Peace Union
  Student Peace Union
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• Turn Towards Peace
• Voice of Women (Canada)
• War Resisters International
• War Resisters League
  War Resisters League
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• Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
• Women Strike for Peace
  Women Strike for Peace
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• Yugoslav League for Peace Independence and Equality of Peoples.

It was merged with the International Peace Bureau

International Peace Bureau

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in 1978.