International Fellowship of Reconciliation
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-013
Abstract
The Fellowship of Reconciliation in the U.S. was founded in 1915 by Christian pacifists. The organization, whose members are now drawn from many religious groups, seeks to apply principles of peace and social justice and non-violent social change to issues such as disarmament, conscription, race relations, economic justice, and civil liberties.
Dates:
1915-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Historic Peace Churches/Fellowship of Reconciliation Consultative Committee Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Historic Peace Churches-FOR Consultative Committee
Abstract
Collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, proposals, leaflets, pamphlets and a list of committee members, 1970-2005.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1951-2005
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
International Fellowship of Reconciliation Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Netherlands-International Fellowship of Reconciliation
Abstract
The International Fellowship of Reconciliation was founded in 1922, though international work under the umbrella name "Fellowship of Reconciliation" began as early as 1915.
Dates:
1919- current
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
John Nevin Sayre Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-117
Abstract
John Nevin Sayre was a pacifist who spent over 40 years at the helm of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Dates:
1885-1982; Majority of material found within 1922-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
André Trocmé and Magda Trocmé Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-107
Abstract
André and Magda Trocmé are perhaps best known for their work in the small French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon where, during World War II, they inspired the villagers to help protect and sometimes to assist in the escape of Jews and other poltiical refugees. In 1938, André Trocmé, and his pacifist colleague Édouard Theis, founded L'Ecole Nouvelle Cévenol in Le Chambon, a Protestant, co-educational secondary school, with a curriculum of tolerance, honesty, and nonviolence. By 1942 the Germans...
Dates:
1919-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 2
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- France -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Sources 1
- Historic peace churches -- History -- Sources 1
- Jews -- France -- History -- Sources 1
- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France) -- History -- Sources 1
- Morocco -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Societies, etc. 1
- Pacifists -- France -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Historic peace churches -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Protestant churches -- Clergy -- History -- Sources 1
- Protestant churches -- France 1
- Protestant churches -- Switzerland 1
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Peace 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- War victims -- Services for -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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