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Peace organizations
- UNESCOThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization began its life in the shadow of a global war. A League of Nations resolution on the 21st…
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in EuropeThe year 1975 marked a turning point in global history when thirty-five nations gathered in Helsinki, Finland. They signed the Final Act of the Conference on…
- International Court of JusticeThe first permanent institution established for the purpose of settling international disputes was the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which emerged from the…
- World Academy of Art and ScienceOn the 2nd of August 1939, a letter drafted by Leo Szilard and signed by Albert Einstein reached Franklin D. Roosevelt with urgent news about uranium fission…
- United NationsThe United Nations Charter was signed on the 26th of June 1945 by representatives of fifty nations in San Francisco. This document officially established the…