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

Year:	1949
Number:	3-3
Nominee:
Name:	Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante y Sirvén
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1865
Year, death:	1951
Profession/Category:	Professor of International Law
University:	Havana
City:	Havana
Country:	CU (CUBA)
Motivation:	Bustamante advocated international co-operation, especially in Latin America. He wanted to use international law as a means to achieve mutual understanding and to establish a common law system that could be used to solve international disputes.
Nominator:
Name:	Neftali Ponce
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	Foreign Minister
Country:	EC (ECUADOR)
Evaluation:	No
Comment:	Bustamante had been a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration from 1908 to 1926, and he had been a member of the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1921 to 1939.