by Susan | Jul 8, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 8, 1853 US warships, commanded by Commodore Matthew Perry under orders from American President Millard Fillmore, arrived at Edo, capital of the closed country of Japan, to demand that it open for trade. This is an example of “gunboat diplomacy,” the pursuit...
by Susan | Jul 7, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1907 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, of Italy, for his work as a key leader of the Italian peace movement and to Louis Renault, of France, for his work as a leading French international jurist and a member of the Permanent Court of...
by Susan | Jul 7, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 7, 1957 Convened at the onset of the Cold War, a group of scientists held their first peace conference in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada. The mission of the Pugwash Conference was to “. . . bring scientific insight and reason to bear on threats to...
by Susan | Jul 6, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1906 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Theodore Roosevelt of the United States for his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese war and for his interest in arbitration, having provided the Hague arbitration court with its very first case. Roosevelt’s...
by Susan | Jul 6, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 6, 1944 During World War II, while stationed at Fort Hood, Texas as a Second Lieutenant, Baseball player Jackie Robinson refused to move to the back of an Army bus when requested to by the driver. The driver summoned the military police, who took Robinson into...
