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The Nomination Database for the
Nobel Peace Prize, 1901-1956

Year Nominator Nominee(s) Motivation  
1920 Plunkett Benedict XV Show »
1938 O'Sullivan Ferris Ferris was nominated for his brochure "The Democratic Constitution", in which he outlined an electoral system which guaranteed unanimity in choice of every spokesman or representative. This would secure perfect harmony in the counsels of all assemblies, local, national, and international. Show »
1949 Members of the parliament of Ireland Armattoe Show »
1951 Butler Buchmann Buchmann was nominated for his peace efforts, especially his work in the Moral Rearmament movement. He founded the movement in 1920s as the Oxford Group. It based its teaching on the Four Absolutes" (honesty, purity, unselfishness, love). Later, as the MRA (1938), it became more involved in political and social issues, particularly during the Cold War period when its anticommunist orientation found a receptive climate. Show »
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MLA style: "Nomination Database - Peace". Nobelprize.org. 21 May 2013 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/nomination/nomination.php?action=advsearch&key1=nomcountry&log1=IS&string1=IE