Chown was a committed pacifist during World War I (1914–18).

Chown said that non-resistance "is only possible to men and women whose faith in this being a spiritual universe is strong."

She thought that pacifists "have glimpsed the coming world ideal."

At the Women's International Conference at The Hague in 1915, Chown "contributed to the merging of pacifist and suffragette ideas in a program denouncing militarism, autocracy, secret treaties, and imperialism while calling for a new international order based on compulsory arbitrarion, universal disarmament, freedom of the seas, and a league of democratic nations."
 In the same year, she was a co-founder with Laura Hughes and Elsie Charlton of the Canadian Women's Peace Party.
Her outspoken views were to bring her notoriety.
She was hostile to the church, and as a pacifist was critical of the attitude of her cousin Samuel Dwight Chown, a Methodist minister and army chaplain during the war.

Chown's pacifism caused conflict with other Canadian feminist leaders.
In 1917 she moved to the United States, where she taught at a trade union college for the next ten years.

Later she traveled in Europe and Russia.

Chown founded the Women's League of Nations Association in 1930, dedicated to education in pacifism.

She organized teas at which Jews and gentiles could meet.
She wrote a column for the United Church Observer.

In 1945 she was elected honorary president of Toronto's United Nations Society.

Alice Amelia Chown died in Toronto on 2 March 1949.

Despite being unconventional, in some ways Chown was a typical late Victorian social reformer.
Contrasting her views to those of her mother, she wrote, "Her faith was in a Supreme Being who existed perfect, complete; mine in a life force, present in every man, which must grow and develop."
Chown was a committed pacifist during World War I (1914–18).
Chown said that non-resistance "is only possible to men and women whose faith in this being a spiritual universe is strong."
She thought that pacifists "have glimpsed the coming world ideal."
At the Women's International Conference at The Hague in 1915, Chown "contributed to the merging of pacifist and suffragette ideas in a program denouncing militarism, autocracy, secret treaties, and imperialism while calling for a new international order based on compulsory arbitrarion, universal disarmament, freedom of the seas, and a league of democratic nations."  In the same year, she was a co-founder with Laura Hughes and Elsie Charlton of the Canadian Women's Peace Party. Her outspoken views were to bring her notoriety. She was hostile to the church, and as a pacifist was critical of the attitude of her cousin Samuel Dwight Chown, a Methodist minister and army chaplain during the war.
Chown's pacifism caused conflict with other Canadian feminist leaders. In 1917 she moved to the United States, where she taught at a trade union college for the next ten years.
Later she traveled in Europe and Russia.
Chown founded the Women's League of Nations Association in 1930, dedicated to education in pacifism.
She organized teas at which Jews and gentiles could meet. She wrote a column for the United Church Observer.
In 1945 she was elected honorary president of Toronto's United Nations Society.
Alice Amelia Chown died in Toronto on 2 March 1949.
Despite being unconventional, in some ways Chown was a typical late Victorian social reformer. Contrasting her views to those of her mother, she wrote, "Her faith was in a Supreme Being who existed perfect, complete; mine in a life force, present in every man, which must grow and develop."
Alice Amelia Chown