by Susan | Jul 23, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
No prize was awarded in 1928. The 1929 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Frank B. Kellogg, of the United States, for the Kellogg-Briand pact, whose signatories agreed to settle all conflicts by peaceful means and renounced war as an instrument of national policy. In...
by Susan | Jul 23, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 23, 1846 Protesting slavery and US involvement in the Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau refuses to pay his $1 poll tax and was tossed into jail by the Concord, Massachusetts town constable — an experience that moved him to write “On the Duty of Civil...
by Susan | Jul 22, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1927 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Ferdinand Buisson, of France, and to Ludwig Quidde, of Germany, both for contributions to Franco-German popular reconciliation. After a reconciling trip to Germany, Buisson said, “A force exists which is far greater...
by Susan | Jul 22, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 22, 1756 The Friendly Association for gaining and preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures was founded in Philadelphia. It was comprised primarily of Quakers who wished to pursue peaceful coexistence between the native peoples and the European...
by Susan | Jul 21, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1926 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Aristide Briand, of France, and Gustav Stresemann, of Germany, both for their work on the Locarno Treaties. Streseman was considered a moderate in Germany (he died in 1929); while Poland was in a state of political and...
