Colman McCarthy (born March 24, 1938, in Glen Head, New York[1][2]) is an American journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, progressive, anarchist, and long-time peace activist, directs the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, D.C. From 1969 to 1997, he wrote columns for The Washington Post.

The advisory board of the Center for Teaching Peace includes Robert Coles, Joan Baez, Arun Gandhi, Muhammad Yunus, Sen. Ron Wyden, Marian Wright Edelman, Jack Olender, Sydney Wolfe and Ronald Dellums.

McCarthy's educational philosophy has attracted some controversy in the past, with two Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School students calling in 2006 for a more balanced presentation of the issues covered by the class.

On many Friday mornings since 1991, he and his Peace Studies students at Bethesda-Chevy High School have taken to the highway fronting the campus to protest the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

In 2009, McCarthy wrote an article in The Washington Post about the life of Thomas, a peace activist, who undertook a 27-year antinuclear vigil in front of the White House.

[7] McCarthy also won an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship for journalism[8] in 1998 to research and write about mentoring, tutoring, and literacy at Garrison elementary school in Washington, D.C.

[9] He also won the Colman McCarthy's son, John, has made a full-length documentary titled Bandit about his father's practice of peaceful anarchy.