Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

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Women's International League (U.K.)

Pottecher-Arnould, Therese (?-?)

Alice Thacher Post to Lucia Ames Mead and Anna Garlin Spencer, November 21, 1917

Florence Gottschalk Taussig to Jane Addams, December 6, 1918

Mary Church Terrell to Jane Addams, March 18, 1921

Allen, Minne Müller-Liebenwalde (1887-1980)

Andrews, Fannie Fern Phillips (1867-1950)

Crooks, Reverend Margaret (?-?)

Jacobs, Aletta Henriëtte (1854-1929)

Jouve, Andrée Charpentier (1884-1972)

Karsten, Eleanor Daggett (1872-1946)

Laddey, Clara Schlee (1858-1932)

Miskolczy Meller, Eugénia (1872-1945)

Moltesen, Eva Elizabeth Hällström (1871-1934)

Nasmyth, Florence Dora Gross (1884-1961)

Roelofs, Henrietta (1878-1942)

Rotten, Elisabeth Friederike (1882-1964)

Sisterhood of International Peace

Ukrainian Section of the WILPF

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, United States Branch

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Founding Date

1919-05-12

Description

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) was formed from the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace, at the Second International Congress of Women, in Zurich, in 1915. The organization's goals were broad-based and argued for a radical revisioning of society that led to a peaceful world and an end to war. Though securing full political rights for women was seen as an integral part of its work, the WILPF's vision was broader, encompassing all people. WILPF believed that peace would only be possible if the world was free if people had self-determination, accomplished total disarmament, and the creation of economic development and opportunity. During World War II, the WILPF was mostly inactive due to the war, peace activists were jailed in some countries, and many members left the organization, which opposed the war, to help in war efforts. Its educational department, the Jane Addams Peace Association, was founded in 1953 to promote peace education. In the 1960s and 1970s, the WILPF continued to recognize the human right to resist injustice. In recent years they have become invested in defending the environment.

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Picture: 1921 WILPF Executive Committee: Front row, left to right: Cornelia Ramnodt-Hirschmann, Gabrielle Duchêne, Lida Gustava Heymann, Yelia Hertzka, Jane Addams, Catherine Marshall, Gertrude Baer. Back row, left to right: Emily Greene Balch and Thora Daugaard.

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Bibliography and Links

Catia Cecilia Confortini, Intelligent Compassion: Feminist Critical Methodology in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (2012), pp. 4-18.

History, WILPF Website.

SNAC

WILPF, Generations of Courage: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom From the 20th century Into a New Millenium (2004).

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“Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed July 5, 2020, http://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/15686.