Congresses and Assemblies
The highest WPC body, the Assembly, meets every three years.
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| Year | Event | Location | No. of delegates | Countries represented | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace | Wroclav | 46 | ||
| 1949 | World Congress of Advocates of Peace | Paris and Prague | 2,200 | 72 | Established the World Committee of Partisans for Peace, chaired by Frédéric Joliot-Curie. |
| 1950 | World Congress of the Supporters of Peace | Sheffield and Warsaw | Moved from Sheffield to Warsaw as a result of the British government refusing visas to delegates. | ||
| 1951 | Stockholm | ||||
| 1952 | Congress of the People for Peace | Vienna | Presiding committee included Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Robeson, Pablo Neruda, Diego Rivera, and Louis Aragon. Also attended by Madame Sun Yat Sen, Ilya Ehrenburg and Hewlett Johnson. | ||
| 1952 | Berlin | ||||
| 1953 | Helsinki | ||||
| 1955 | Budapest | ||||
| 1958 | World Congress on Disarmament and International Cooperation | Stockholm | Bertrand Russell withdrew his sponsorship of the congress and denounced the WPC for its refusal to condemn the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 and the kidnapping and murder of Hungarian prime minister, Imre Nagy. | ||
| 1962 | World Conference for General Disarmament and Peace | Moscow | Addressed by Nikita Khruschev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Attended by delegates from non-aligned groups. Sponsors include Bertrand Russell and Canon John Collins of CND. As a result of confrontation between western and Soviet delegates, forty non-aligned organizations form the International Confederation for Disarmament and Peace, without Soviet membership. | ||
| 1965 | World Congress for Peace, National Independence and General disarmament | Helsinki | 1,470 | 98 | Called for withdrawal of all U.S. armed forces from Vietnam. |
| 1971 | Assembly | Budapest | |||
| 1973 | World Congress of Peace Forces | Moscow | 3,200 | Chaired by Romesh Chandra, the general secretary of the WPC. The main speaker was Leonid Brezhnev | |
| 1980 | World Parliament of Peoples for Peace | Sofia | 2,230 | 134 | Launched campaigns against stationing of new US nuclear weapons in Western Europe, against Camp David agreement between Egypt and Israel, and campaigns of solidarity with Vietnam, Syria, Cuba, the PLO and the Soviet-backed regime in Afghanistan. |
| 1983 | World Assembly for Peace and Life Against Nuclear War | Prague | 2,635 | 132 | Noted that "An especially acute danger is represented by plans to deploy first-strike nuclear missiles in Western Europe." Members of Charter 77 not permitted to attend. Members of the Hungarian dissident movement Dialogue who attempted to attend "were met with tear gas, arrests, and later deportation back to Hungary." |
| 1986 | World Congress for the International Year of Peace | Copenhagen | 2,648 | The International Year of Peace was declared by the United Nations. This was said to be the first WPC-sponsored congress to be held in a NATO country. The Coalition for Peace through Security demonstrated against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, giving rise to worldwide media coverage. | |
| 1990 | Athens | ||||
| 1996 | Mexico | ||||
| 2000 | Athens | 186 | |||
| 2004 | Athens | 150 | 50+ | ||
| 2005 | Seoul, Korea | ||||
| 2008 | World Congress of the World Peace Council | Caracas, Venezuela | 120 | 76 | |
| 2009 | New York | 400 | 194 |
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