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The World Peace Council (WPC) is an international organization created in 1949 by the Cominform and propped up by the Soviet Union. [1] Throughout the Cold War, WPC engaged in propaganda efforts on behalf of the Soviet Union, whereby it criticized the United States and its allies while defending the Soviet Union's involvement in numerous conflicts.
The World Peace Congress, founded by Professor Rajani Kannepalli Kanth in 2007, is a non-governmental organization dedicated to constructing an institutional basis for world peace, unmediated by state, government or politics. The Congress holds conferences and dialogues, regularly, attended by people with various backgrounds.
The Summit was envisioned to facilitate interfaith dialogue [1]: 95–6 [2] [3]: 104–5 similar to the Inter-Religious Conference on Peace in New Delhi in 1968 and the Centennial Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1993. [4]
Ajamu Sibeko Baraka (/ ə ˈ ʒ ɑː m uː b ə ˈ r ɑː k ə / ə-ZHAH-moo bə-RAH-kə; born October 25, 1953) [2] is an American political activist. [1] In 2016, he was the Green Party nominee for Vice President of the United States on the ballot in 45 [a] states and received 1,457,216 votes (1.07% of the popular vote).
The "Big Four" at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, following the end of World War I. Wilson is standing next to Georges Clemenceau at right. After the signing of the armistice, Wilson traveled to Europe to attend the Paris Peace Conference, thereby becoming the first U.S. president to travel to Europe while in office. [232]
Hundreds of Jewish peace activists and their allies converged at a major train station in downtown Chicago during rush hour Monday morning, blocking the entrance to the Israeli consulate and ...
In 1923 Edward Bok established the $100,000 American Peace Award for the best plan to deliver world peace. Roosevelt had leisure time and interest, and he drafted a plan for the contest. He never submitted it because Eleanor was selected as a judge for the prize. His plan called for a new world organization that would replace the League of ...
Motzkin at the World Zionist Congress. Leo Motzkin (also Mozkin; 1867 – 7 November 1933) was a Ukrainian Zionist leader. A leader of the World Zionist Congress and numerous Jewish and Zionist organizations, Motzkin was a key organizer of the Jewish delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and one of the first Jewish leaders to organize opposition to the Nazi Party in Germany.