The International Arbitration and Peace Association was an organization founded in London, in 1880 by Hodgson Pratt (1824-1907), an English pacifist. Its stated objective was the use of arbitration and peace in place of armed conflicts and force. It published a journal, Concord.
Famous quotes containing the words peace and/or association:
“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.”
—William, Lord Beveridge (1879–1963)
“The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.”
—French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (drafted and discussed August 1789, published September 1791)