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

Year: 1938
Number: 5-1
   
Nominee:  
Pierre Cérésole
M
1879
1945
Engineer and teacher.
Polytechnic College of Zurich
Zurich
CH (SWITZERLAND)
   
Motivation: Cérésole was the founder of an international voluntary relief service (Service volontaire international pour la paix). The relief service was to be an alternative for conscientious objectors to ordinary military service. The organization acvocated mutual understanding, helpfulness and brotherhood.
   
Nominator:
 
Roger H Soltau
M
Professor of History
American University in Beirut
Beirut
LB (LEBANON)
   
Evaluation:
   
Evaluator 1:  
Wilhelm Keilhau
M
TO CITE THIS PAGE:
MLA style: "Nomination Database - Peace". Nobelprize.org. 23 May 2013 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/nomination/nomination.php?action=show&showid=2490