Hague Appeal for Peace Records

Hague Appeal for Peace (HAP) was both an organization (based in New York, New York) and a conference, held May 11-15, 1999 at The Hague, Netherlands, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899. HAP defined itself as an organization with a global campaign to create a "culture of peace," to strengthen humanitarian and human rights laws and institutions, to advance the prevention, peaceful resolution, and transformation of conflicts, to abolish nuclear weapons and develop disarmament campaigns, and to identify the root causes of war. More than 800 organizations --human rights, environmental, gender, disarmament-- endorsed the HAP campaign. Cora Weiss was the president; Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Graça Machel, Jody Williams, José Ramos-Horta, Queen Noor of Jordan, the Dalai Lama and many others, lent their support. The Hague Appeal for Peace organization appeared to wind down around 2005. According to its website (2007), the work of HAP was taken over by Peace Boat US, a non-governmental and non-profit organization working to promote peace, human rights, equitable and sustainable development, and respect for the environment throughout the United States and the world.

The Hague Appeal for Peace records include correspondence, financial records, minutes of meetings, information about the 1999 HAP conference, conference and post-conference reports; correspondence, speeches and memoranda of Cora Weiss; issues of Peace Matters, HAP's periodical; reference files about organizations working for peace and disarmament; and photographs, audiocassettes, and videotapes.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these records.

Gift of Hague Appeal for Peace, 2005 [acc. 05A-048]; 2006 [acc. 06A-008]; 2007 [Acc. 07A-007, Acc. 07A-047]; 2008 [Acc. 08A-053]; 2010 [Acc. 10A-072]; 2013 [Acc. 2013-043]; 2014 [Acc. 2014-073].

Collection partially processed Summer 2005 and Summer 2006; this finding aid updated by Eleanor Fulvio, August 2010; amd other SCPC staff 2017-2019.

This collection remains unprocessed and in the order it was donated.

More information about The Hague Appeal for Peace organization may be found at http://www.haguepeace.org. Beginning in 1998 the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive (IA) cached the Fellowship of Reconciliation's web site. The links are provided here for the convenience of researchers interested in the history of the HAP's web presence. The Swarthmore College Peace Collection has no control over the web sites or how they are saved by IA. Dates of web sites marked with an * indicate a change in that site from the last saved web site. Please check both URLs listed as each may list different dates on which web sites were saved: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.haguepeace.org/, http://wayback.archive-it.org/223/*/http://www.haguepeace.org/.

Cora Weiss Papers

Items removed:

Cloth bag with HAP logo in Memorabilia

Photographs

Audio visual recordings

Use

None.

Preferred Citation

Cite as: [Identification of item], in the Hague Appeal for Peace Records (DG 211), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

Publisher

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Creator

Hague Appeal for Peace

Weiss, Cora, 1934-

Subject

Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources

Peace Movements -- History -- Sources

Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources

Peaceful change (International relations) -- History -- Sources

Peace Movements -- Congresses -- History -- Sources

Human rights movements -- History -- Sources

Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources

Disarmament -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources

Women and Peace -- History -- Sources

People

Weiss, Cora, 1934-

Organization

Hague Appeal for Peace

Hague Appeal for Peace. Conference (1999)

Language Note

Materials are in English.