Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Buffalo Peace and Arbitration Society Collected Records
Church Peace Union Collected Records
Publications make up bulk of the holdings. Also includes extensive correspondence (1915-1939) of William I. Hull.
Clergy and Laity Network Collected Records
Collection includes correspondence and publicity materials.
Council on Religion and International Affairs Collected Records
The Church Peace Union was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1914. The organization included Protestants, Catholics, and Jews. In 1961, the name was changed to the Council on Religion and International Affairs.
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Records
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.
Inter-Religious Task Force on Central America Collected Records
Collection includes minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports, flyers, newspaper clippings, publicity materials, reference files.
Homer A. Jack Papers
George Nasmyth and Florence Nasmyth Papers
George W. Nasmyth was educated at Cornell, Berlin, Gottingen, Heidelburg and Zurich. He dedicate his life to the cause of international understanding and peace. In 1919, he attended the Paris Peace Conference, and to organize the first meeting since the outbreak of the war of the World Alliance for Friendship Through the Churches. He died of a typhus infection at the age of 39, on September 20, 1920. Florence Nasmyth was a writer on peace issues.
Victor Paschkis Papers
Victor Paschkis (1898-1991), born in Vienna, was a Quaker, a mechanical engineer, and a professor. He was the founder, and first president, of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science. He also served as the chairman of the National Friends Conference on Race Relations, the American Friends Service Committee's Race Relations Committee, and the Committee on Fair Employment. Paschkis taught at Columbia University.
