by Susan | Aug 22, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Uncategorized
The 1969 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Labour Organization. The preamble to the ILO’s constitution states, “Universal and lasting peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice.” This award was presented 50...
by Susan | Aug 22, 2016 | Monuments
In 2003, working out of a workshop in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, Mark Solomon, an American blacksmith and anti-gun campaigner, taught basic metalwork and safety skills to artists from Cambodia’s Royal University of Fine Arts. As part of The Peace Art Project...
by Susan | Aug 22, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 22, 1849 The Second International Peace Congress met for three days in Salle Sainte-Cecile, Paris, with Victor Hugo as President. Hugo called for the creation of a United States of Europe. Hugo, then in exile on the Island of Guernsey, planted an oak tree in...
by Susan | Aug 21, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded in 1966 or 1967. The 1968 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to René Cassin, of France, President of the European Court for Human Rights. Eleanor Roosevelt, who died in 1962, was the chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human...
by Susan | Aug 21, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 22, 1935 Annie Proulx “What we fear we often rage against.” August 23, 1951 Queen Noor of Jordan “The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear...
