World Peace Congress

World Peace Congress 1907

The World Peace Congress is a regular international event of pacifists.

After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, pacifist ideas gained importance especially in Great Britain. In part, they linked to older religious thought (Quaker, Mennonite). By 1830, peace societies were formed in different countries. A first peace conference took place in London in 1843. However, this did not pay much attention beyond the Anglo-Saxon area. Further congresses followed in Brussels (1848), Paris (1849), Frankfurt am Main (1850), London (1851), Manchester (1852) and Edinburgh (1853). International participation was great, but the English and American peace organizations dominated.

Boost gave the movement the wars since the Crimean War of 1853, the American Civil War and the German unification wars of the 1860s / 70s. A first international peace conference was held in Geneva in 1867.

But it was not until 1889 that the Congress in Paris began to develop a broader movement, which from then on regularly held congresses. At the first World Peace Conference, 310 persons were assembled. In the following decades, 23 congresses followed in London in 1890, in Budapest in 1896, in Lucerne in 1906, and in Munich in 1907. The international peace movement reached its climax in the 1890s. Supporters were about 3,000 activists. The Hague Peace Conferences at the level of the governments were not in the direct tradition of world peace congresses. The Congress in 1914 should have taken place in Vienna in September, but was no longer held by the outbreak of the First World War.

For the Paris World Peace Congress in 1949, Picasso designed the symbol of the Peace Dove, one of the peace symbols of peace movement. The Dutch Yiddish singer Lin Jaldati also participated in 1949. Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext Edit the source text

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