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officially as representatives of the International Association. The International Working Men’s Congress was in itself a peace congress, as the union of the working classes of the different countries must ultimately make international wars impossible. If the promoters of the Geneva Peace Congress really understood the question at issue they ought to have joined the International Association.
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The Bern Congress was nearly the last. The central committee, one of whose main tasks was to prepare the next meeting of the League, performed its mission very poorly and it was the Geneva committee which had to take the initiative for the 3rd Congress. On July 11, 1869, the Lausanne congress saw the
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While the balloting was going on, Citizen Marx called attention to the Peace Congress to be held in Geneva. He said: It was desirable that as many delegates as could make it convenient should attend the Peace Congress in their individual capacity; but that it would be injudicious to take part
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at the initiative of Sellon's account, who then founded the "Société de la Paix de Genève". Jean-Jacques de Sellon started from the principle of the inviolability of the human person, which led him first to lead a campaign for the
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read a speech which ended with the famous tirade: "children to say to themselves: a uniform is a livery, and any livery is ignominious, that of the priest and that of the soldier, that of the magistrate and that of the lackey."
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The Bern congress was mainly marked by lively debates during the discussion on "the relationship of the economic and social question with that of peace and freedom", between the democratic majority (
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At the end of the discussions this resolution was rejected by the congress. On September 25, the socialist minority decided to quit the League for Peace and Freedom and to create the
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could not be prevented so the league dissolved and refounded as the 'Société française pour l'arbitrage entre nations' (League of arbitration between the Nations) in the same year.
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also played a prominent role in the Geneva Conference, and joined the Central Committee. The founding conference was attended by 6,000 people. As Bakunin rose to speak:
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from September 21 to 25, 1868. Invited to be officially represented there, the International Workingmen's Association (IWA) decided a few days earlier, at its
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in relation to the principles of the League. The committee decided to offer the honorary presidency to
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Other notable supporters included contemporary activists, revolutionaries, and intellectuals such as
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Sandi E. Cooper (1991). "Pacifism in France, 1889-1914: International Peace as a Human Right".
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The year 1867 was marked by strong international tension, after the victory of
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Les parlementaires de la Seine sous la Troisième République: Etudes, Volume 1
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Brunet, Martine (2011). "L'unité d'une vie". In Ferdinand Buisson (ed.).
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set up the League's Organising Committee, which enlisted the support of
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The second congress of the League of Peace and Freedom took place in
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Bakunin's idea of revolution & revolutionary organisation
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from August 22 to 24, 1849. Next came the congresses in
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The first "Society of Peace" was created in 1830 by
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Ligue internationale de la paix

Second French Empire
Kingdom of Prussia
Luxembourg
Luxembourg crisis
Treaty of London
Franco-Prussian War
Permanent Court of Arbitration
Hague Peace Conference
League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
United Nations
Inter-Parliamentary Union
William Randal Cremer
Jean-Jacques de Sellon
Allaman Castle
Geneva
abolition
slavery
death penalty
London Peace Society
American Peace Society
London
Brussels
Victor Hugo
Paris
Frankfurt am Main
Prussia
Austria

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