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Bertrand Russell
(1872—1970) philosopher, journalist, and political campaigner
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Appeal of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
As the number of Nobel Peace Prize winners and Nobel laureates increased in the twentieth century, individual and groups of laureates began the practice of issuing statements or appeals linked ...
Committee of 100
The Committee of 100 was launched in Britain in October 1960 with a public appeal from the philosopher Bertrand Russell and anti-apartheid campaigner Reverend Michael Scott for mass civil ...
Ernest Gellner
(1925–95)Although Gellner was born in Czechoslovakia, his family (who had Jewish origins) left immediately after the German occupation in 1939, and he spent most of his working life in England. ...
Gregory Bateson
(1904 –1980)A scholar of enormous range who made significant contributions to anthropology, psychology, and zoology. Bateson was born in England and studied natural history before turning to ...
International Campaigns for Nuclear Disarmament
The struggle against nuclear weapons began even before they existed.1945–1954During World War II, many scientists working on the Manhattan Project (the U.S. effort to produce an atomic bomb) ...
John Neville Keynes
(1852–1949)Keynes was born in Salisbury on 31 August 1852, and died in Cambridge on 15 November 1949. He was the only son of a non-conformist nurseryman who built up ...
Pacifism in World War I
The mythical images of August 1914 leave little room for pacifists: a major peace leader Jean Jaures had been killed; German socialists had voted for war credits. Among cheering crowds ...
Peace Research
[This entry contains six subentries: History; Beginnings; 1990 to Present; Focus of Peace Research on State; Journals; and Institutions.]The history of peace research has been drawn following diverse ...
power
Strength in arranging the terms of one's dealing with other firms or people. See also bargaining power; countervailing power; monopoly power.
Professional Movements against Nuclear Weapons
Throughout the nuclear age, various antinuclear professional movements have emerged. These professional groups, which typically started first in Western countries and then spread worldwide, provided ...
Pugwash conferences
A series of international conferences first held in Pugwash (a village in Nova Scotia) in 1957 by scientists to promote the peaceful application of scientific discoveries.
Russell, Bertrand Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) became an orphan at an early age and was, as he once pointed out when
Russell-Einstein Manifesto
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (9 July 195) was a powerful statement against nuclear weapons and war in the nuclear age. It was ultimately signed by eleven eminent scientists from both the ...
television and politics
The BBC opened a television service for the London area in 1936, first broadcasting from Alexandra Palace on 2 November. Widespread access to a medium which could accurately communicate both sounds ...
Traditions of Peace
Several attempts have been made to develop typologies or classifications of peace traditions, including several by the author of this entry. While this may limit the exercise, the traditions dealt ...
William Stanley Jevons
(1835–82)British political economist and logician. Jevons was educated at London, and taught at Manchester and London. He wrote various works on logic, and in 1870 exhibited a ‘logical piano’ or ...
World War I and Peace Movements, 1914–1918
World War I was an event of cataclysmic proportions. Bursting on an unsuspecting continental Europe in August 1914, fierce fighting spread worldwide over four years, involved more than twenty nations ...
