International Peace Bureau
International Peace Bureau (IPB) (Bureau international de la paix), founded in 1891, is the world's oldest international peace federation.
IPB was founded under the name Permanent international peace bureau (Bureau international permanent de la paix). From 1912 onward it used the name International Peace Bureau. Between 1946 and 1961, it was known under the name International Liaison Committee of Organizations for Peace – ILCOP (Comité de liaison international des organisations de paix – CLIOP).
The organisation was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1910 " as a link between the peace societies of the various countries". In 1913 Henri La Fontaine was also awarded the Prize " head of the International Peace Bureau". As of 2012, eleven other Nobel Peace Prize lauretes have been members of the IPB.
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“While ... we cannot and must not hide our concern for grave world dangers, and while, at the same time, we cannot build walls around ourselves and hide our heads in the sand, we must go forward with all our strength to stress and to strive for international peace. In this effort America must and will protect herself.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“come peace or war, the progress of America and Europe
Becomes a long process of deterioration—”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
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—Walter Wellesley (Red)