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 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...
by Susan | Jul 24, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1930 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nathan Söderblom, a Swedish Lutheran Bishop, for his efforts to involve the churches not only in work for ecumenical unity, but also for world peace. He was the first clergyman to be awarded the prize. His mission was...
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 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 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...
