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Unprecedented Peace philantrophy in 2022

Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov's philanthropic decision to auction his 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal to help Ukrainian children suffering from the war has raised in June 2022 more than $103 million in humanitarian aid. The aid will be handled by UNICEF. Muratov, editor in chief of the Russian opposition paper Novaya Gazeta already had made a charitable donation of the $500,000. part of the prize money which comes along with the Nobel Peace Prize. “Several months ago, we at asked ourselves w...
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PEACE and NATURE trails

Join us on a virtual walk along the Nature and Peace Highlights of the cities of Liberty and Peace. Tour Guide We welcome you to join us on two virtual walks through two cities that are of utmost importance to Peace in the Netherlands. Wageningen, city of Liberty and The Hague, city of Peace. These walks were developed with the covid-19 crisis as a background setting, limiting more people than ever to visit these beautiful cities in person. Therefore, the Bertha von Suttner Peace Institute wan...
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Women in WWI two lesson sequence

Published on the centenary of the first International Congress of Women on 28 April 1915, this two-lesson sequence allows students to explore independently the wide range of activities women were engaged in during World War I (WWI) and ask, are women the real peacemakers? Students will become experts in the stories they discover about women who strove for peace, supported the war, worked, campaigned for suffrage or tried to help the victims of war. Click here to download the the lessons (pdf)...
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Discover Peace Walk, The Hague

Peace Palace, visitor center. The permanent exhibition explains the functionning of the PCA, the ICJ, and the creation of the Peace Palace and the Peace Palace Library. World Peace Flame monument, with stones from many countries. Take tram 1 direction Kurhaus. Bertha von Suttner, the first woman to receive the Peace Nobel Prize, was the spokeswoman of the international peace movement before the first World War. She participated in the first and the second The Hague Peace Conferen...
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Den Haag: stad van vrede en recht

Link to the original page : https://anemaa.home.xs4all.n/ges/geschiedenis_den_haag_stad_van_recht_en_vrede.htm De titel Stad van vrede en recht kan Den Haag zich aanmeten sinds in 1899 de Eerste Internationale Vredesconferentie in Den Haag werd gehouden. De conferentie behaalde niet helemaal het gewenste resultaat voor ontwapening en vrede, maar de naam van Den Haag was gevestigd. Telkens als er zich iets nieuws voordeed op het gebied van vrede dacht men aan Den Haag als vestigingsplaats....
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Die Wege der Bertha von Suttner

Eine Spurensuche in Wien, Schloss Harmannsdorf und Gotha Von Adolf Stock See http://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/pazifismus-die-wege-der-bertha-von-suttner.974.de.html?dram:article_id=285340 "Wo Männer fechten, hat das Weib zu schweigen!" Nicht nur der Rechtsgelehrte Felix Dahn, auch Schriftsteller wie Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan Zweig oder Karl Krauss haben sich um 1900 über die Friedenaktivistin Bertha von Suttner mokiert. "Erstmal war sie eine wunderschöne Frau. Und das ist ja auch gan...
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