The party was founded in 1996 as the Pacifist Campaign by a group of activists, including Quakers, in Guildford, Surrey.

[1][2] The leader, retired geography teacher John Morris, has as of 2019 stood for the party in every general election since the party was founded, and though he expects to lose he says "Standing at election time means the word peace and some of the other words we use get put in front of everybody who is of voting age.

[5] The party has also stood in a number of local elections in Dartford, Kent, Horsham, West Sussex and Guildford.

[8] The party fielded four candidates in the 2015 general election, including Morris, Tommy Holgate, previously Comedy Editor for The Sun newspaper, Jim Duggan, and Tania Mahmood,[9][10] who together received a total of 957 votes.

They support conflict resolution, demilitarisation, drug legalisation, end felony disenfranchisement, and proportional representation.