Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. Invented dynamite, first demonstrating it in 1867 in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. An inadvertently premature obituary, "The merchant of death is dead", prompted Nobel, with no wife or children, to leave his wealth to fund annual prizes for eminence in five fields, one of which is Peace.
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Pierre Cérésole
Engineer and peace activist. Born in Lausanne. He worked in the United States and Japan, returning to Switzerland at the outbreak of WW1. He became a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned beca...
1 memorial
Failure of the World Disarmament Conference
Wikipedia. War in History refers to the efforts to prohibit aerial bombing.
1 memorial
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, logician, essayist, social critic and campaigner for peace. Bertrand Arthur William Russell was third Earl Russell. Born Ravenscroft, Trelleck, Monmouthshire. A bad start in life - his...
3 memorials
Amnesty International
London-based international organisation focused on human rights. Its mission statement refers specifically to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in London by labour lawyer Peter Be...
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