Main content
Hague Appeal for Peace Records
Notifications
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.
Overview and metadata sections
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. This collection remains unprocessed and in the order it was donated.
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.
Items removed: Cloth bag with HAP logo in Memorabilia Photographs Audio visual recordings
People
Organization
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
- Publisher
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- Access Restrictions
-
Access: open for research without restrictions.
- Copyright to the records created by the Hague Appeal for Peace have been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Copyright to all other materials is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
- Use Restrictions
-
None.
Collection Inventory
[4 folders]
[2 folders]
[2 folders]
[2 folders]
[removed to the Audiovisual Collection]
[3 folders]
[6 folders]
[work of? communication with?]
[2 folders]
[2 folders]
[4 folders]
[2 folders]
[2 folders]
[3 folders]
[and publicity?], [2 folders]
[and publicity?], [6 folders]
[2 folders]
[2 folders]
[and media coverage of HAP?], [2 folders]
[and media coverage of HAP?], [4 folders]
[2 folders]
[3 folders]
[3 folders]
[2 folders]
[2 folders]
[3 folders]
[3 folders]
[2 folders]
[3 folders]
[3 folders]
[2 folders]
[2 folders]
[box contains list]
[contains shipments labeled by HAP as boxes 3 and 4]
[contains shipments labeled by HAP as boxes 3 and 4]
[contains shipments labeled by HAP as boxes 3 and 4]
[contains shipments labeled by HAP as boxes 3 and 4]
[contains shipments labeled by HAP as boxes 3 and 4], [2 folders]
[3 folders]
[2 folders]
[3 folders]
[2 folders]
[3 folders]
[publicity by HAP?]
[2 folders]
[2 folders]
[2 folders; binders?]
[3 folders]
[2 folders]
[3 folders]
[2 folders]
[2 folders]
[2 folders]
[2 folders]
[2 folders]
[2 folders]
[2 folders]
[6 folders]
[2 Folders]