
Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
Year: | 1923 |
Number: | 35 - 2 |
Nominee 1: |
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Name: | The Inter-Parliamentary Union |
City: | Geneva |
Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
Nominee 2: |
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Name: | Edvard Wavrinsky |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1848 |
Year, Death: | 1924 |
Profession: | Member of the Swedish parliament |
City: | Stockholm |
Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
Motivation: | The Inter-Parliamentary Union promoted peace and contributed to the development and enforcement of international law and arbitration. The Union organized annual inter-parliamentary conferences. Wavrinsky was nominated for his contribution to the peaceful dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian Union in 1905. He was chairman of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League, and he contributed to the founding of the Swedish Inter-Parliamentary Group. During World War I he supported Wilson's plans for a League of Nations, but he emphasized the importance of a democratic and parliamentary basis for such a league. |
Nominator: |
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Name: | Axel Theodor Adelswärd |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1860 |
Year, Death: | 1929 |
Profession: | President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union/Member of the Swedish parliament |
City: | Stockholm |
Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
Comments: | Wavrinsky was also on the short list, but no new evaluation was requested. The nomination was submitted by Adelswärd (Chairman of the Swedish Inter-Parliamentary Group) on behalf of the Swedish Inter-Parliamentary Group. |