The International Peace Bureau is one of the oldest international peace organizations, created following a peace congress in Rome as a coordinating centre for the peace societies of Europe and America. Its first offices were in Bern, Switzerland, and it was later based in Geneva. It organized the regular World Peace Congresses and promoted international arbitration and disarmament. Several of its leaders, such as Elie Ducommun, Albert Gobat and Fredrik Bajer, received the Nobel Peace Prize, and the bureau itself was awarded the prize in 1910. Today it works as a federation of peace groups around the world and campaigns for disarmament and conflict prevention.
Before and after
- 16 September 1891Birth of Karl Dönitz
- 17 October 1891Construction of Kunsthistorisches Museum
- 20 October 1891Birth of James Chadwick
- 10 November 1891Death of Arthur Rimbaud
- 13 November 1891Founding of International Peace Bureau
- 15 November 1891Birth of Erwin Rommel
- 8 December 1891Construction of Paulista Avenue
- 10 December 1891Birth of Nelly Sachs
- 21 December 1891James Naismith invents basketball
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The era
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