| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1922 |
| Number: | 31 - 1 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | The Nordic Peace Association (Nordisk Fredsforbund) |
| Profession: | Alliance of Nordic peace associations |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | The Permanent International Peace Bureau |
| Profession: | Central office through which peace activities could be coordinated |
| City: | Bern |
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1910 |
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| Motivation: | C.B. Hanssen initiated the founding of the Nordic Peace Association in 1912. The Nordic Peace Association consisted of Nordic peace organizations. These organizations had since 1885 met on a regular basis, and they had developed some form of co-operation, but they needed a more formal and regulated structure. The charter of the Nordic Peace Association stated that its aim was to be the cornerstone in a world peace association that would work to secure peace by advocating international law and disarmament.
The Peace Bureau organized peace conferences, and it collected and published peace literature. It advocated peace, pacifism and international law. During
WWI the Peace Bureau helped prisoners of war and other victims of the war. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Carl Albert Lindhagen |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1860 |
| Year, Death: | 1946 |
| Profession: | Member of the Swedish parliament. Mayor of Stockholm |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
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| Comments: |
The nomination came as a protest against the suggestion to give the prize to the Inter-Parliamentary Union that was put forward by the Swedish Inter-Parliamentary Group.
C.B. Hanssen was a member of the Nobel Comittee from 1913 to 1939. |
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