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Central Organisation for a Durable Peace Collected Records

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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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The Central Organisation for a Durable Peace was formed at The Hague (the Netherlands) in April 1915 by representatives from nine European nations and the United States. The deliberations of this meeting were summarized in a manifesto, and a nine point minimum-program calling for coercive sanctions, which were studied by nine international research committees and several national committees. The Organisation's statement of purpose emphasized pacifistic and liberal principles as requisite for a "new diplomacy" that they hoped would emerge as a consequence of World War I. Departing from strict pacifism, the organization expressed a willingness to accept military sanctions against countries that started hostilities without first making a good faith effort to resolve a dispute by submitting to international arbitration or making some other appeal to the existing peace machinery.

The Organisation met throughout the war to discuss the basis of a durable peace, not disbanding until after the Treaty of Versailles, but the American Branch's main activities occurred before the U.S. entry into the war in 1917. American peace leaders involved with the Organisation included Fannie Fern Andrews, Emily Greene Balch and William I. Hull.

Most of the material in this collection came from the papers of William I. Hull, which were given to Swarthmore College between 1935 and 1939. Though the files of the Nederlandsche Anti-Oorlog Raad had been placed in this collection at some point, as this group was part of the Organisation's International Council (or affiliated as a National Group?), the material was removed in 2004 as it both pre-dates and goes beyond the scope of this collection.

This collection was formerly DG 007 before being moved to the CDG-B area.

Guide to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 2nd ed. p. 16.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for these papers/records.

Gift of William I. Hull, 1935-1939.

For the catalog record for this collection, and to find materials on similar topics, search the library's online catalog.

Items removed: journal publication "Holland News" removed to the Periodical Collection; MA thesis about the Organisation by Madeline Z. Doty removed to the Book Collection.

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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None.

Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. History; Manifesto.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Fundraising.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. International Council.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. International Committee of Research.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Bibliographies.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous, 1915.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. International Meeting to Examine the Means to Promote a Permanent Peace, The Hague (Netherlands), 1915 (April 7 - 9, ).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Réunion International, The Hague (Netherlands), 1915 (April 7 - 10).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. International Study Conference, Berne (Switzerland), 1915 [proposed] (December 14 - 18).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Pamphlet "A Durable Peace: Official Commentary on the Minimum-Program", approximately 1915.
Box 1
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[includes copy in French]

Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous, 1916.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Constitution, 1916.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Pamphlet "Le Paix et le Désarmament", 1916.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous, 1917.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Questionary #1-7, 9, apprximately 1917.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Report "Dévelopment de l'Oeuvre de la Haye, Organisation de la Conferénce de la Paix", 1917 (March).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Pamphlet "Exposé de Travaux de l'Organisation", 1917 (September).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Report "Avant-Projet d'Un Traité Général Relatif aux Transferts de Territoires", 1917 (September).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Report "Avant-Projet d'Un Traité Général Relatif aux Droits des Minorit´s Nationales", 1917 (October).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Report "Demokratische Kontrolle der Auswärtigen Politik: Nichtigkeit Geheimer Verträge", 1917 (October).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Report "Institutions Judicaires et de Conciliation", 1917 (October).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Report "La Limitation Internationale des Armements", 1917 (November).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Report "Berner Zusammenkunft zur Besprechung der Künftigen Völkerbeziehungen, 19. Bis 22, November 1917", 1917 (December).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Meeting to discuss international relations after the war, Berne (Switzerland), 1917 (November 19 - 22).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. International Study Conference, Berne (Switzerland), 1917 (November) [proposed].
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous, 1918.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous, 1919.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Pamphlet "Translation of Abdul-Baha's Letter to the Central Organization...", 1919.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous, undated.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: Misc.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: Typescript of "Address of William H. Taft Before the National Education Association," New York (New York), 1916 (July 3).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. International Congress for the Study of the Principles of a Durable Peace, Berne (Switzerland), 1916.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. International Congress for the Study of the Principles of a Durable Peace, Berne (Switzerland), Papers published, 1915.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

(in English)

Archival Resource Key. International Congress for the Study of the Principles of a Durable Peace, Berne (Switzerland), Papers published, 1916.
Box 2
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(in English)

Archival Resource Key. International Congress for the Study of the Principles of a Durable Peace, Berne (Switzerland), Papers published, 1917.
Box 2
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(in English)

Archival Resource Key. International Congress for the Study of the Principles of a Durable Peace, Berne (Switzerland), Papers published, 1915.
Box 2
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(in German)

Archival Resource Key. International Congress for the Study of the Principles of a Durable Peace, Berne (Switzerland), Papers published, 1916.
Box 2
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(in German)

Archival Resource Key. International Congress for the Study of the Principles of a Durable Peace, Berne (Switzerland), Papers published, 1917.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

(in German)

Archival Resource Key. American Branch: Meeting minutes, lists of members, etc., 1915-1917.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. American Branch: Correspondence of Emily Greene Balch, 1915-1918.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. American Branch: Correspondence of William I. Hull, 1915-1918.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. American Branch: Pamphlets by Fannie Fern Andrews.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. American Branch: Pamphlets published.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Swiss Committee: Appeal; pamphlet "Memorial Concerning the Principles of a Durable Treaty of Peace", 1915.
Box 3

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