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The World Peace Foundation was founded in 1910 by publisher Edwin Ginn, who initially called it the International School of Peace. Ginn's endowment allowed the institute to continue after his death in 1914.
Alex de Waal has been director of the World Peace Foundation since 2011, when the foundation moved to The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
The World Peace Foundation is affiliated with The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Before 2011, it was affiliated with the Harvard Kennedy School.
The World Peace Foundation founded International Organization in 1947, a quarterly journal that became the leading publication in the field of international relations.
The foundation's original objectives were to educate people worldwide about the destructiveness of war and to promote international justice and goodwill among all nations. Board chair Philip S. Khoury quoted these original objectives in 2012 and stated there was no intention to change them.
Edwin Ginn believed that the massive financial investments made in war should be matched by at least modest investments in peace, drawing on Immanuel Kant's concept of perpetual peace through democracy. He financed the institution himself starting in 1910.