by Susan | Jul 27, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1934 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Arthur Henderson, of the United Kingdom, for his work for the League, particularly its efforts in disarmament. He was one of the founders of the Labour Party. He said, in his acceptance speech: “To a visitor from another...
by Susan | Jul 27, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 27, 2000 La Marcha de los Quatro Suyos, or the March of the Four Directions, began. About 20,000 demonstrators, from the four corners of Peru and many of whom had to travel by bus for several days, peacefully marched down the streets of Peru’s capital, Lima, to...
by Susan | Jul 26, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The Prize was not awarded in 1932. In 1933, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Norman Angell, of the United Kingdom, for authoring The Great Illusion (1909) and for being a supporter of the League of Nations as well as an influential publicist and educator for peace...
by Susan | Jul 26, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 26, 2013 The French parliament lifted a ban on insulting the president that had been in place since 1881. It had be illegal to insult the French president and those who risked it could be fined. In the 1960s, de Gaulle’s government convicted 350 people for...
by Susan | Jul 25, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1931 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Jane Addams, of the United States, for her social reform work and leading the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and to Nicholas Murray Butler, also of the United States, for his promotion of...
