http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice
Suttner's pacifist and human rights activities in Europe dovetailed with women's rights movements across that continent and in North America as the 20th Century dawned. In 1904, the first International Women's Conference was held in Berlin. Likewise, across the Atlantic in the USA, a new colonial nation was also interested in joining Suttner's world-wide call for peace in the 20th Century. That same year, Theodore Roosevelt invited "PEACE BERTHA", as Americans called her, to the White House.
In 1904, as Suttner traveled to America, where anti-colonialist movements, peace movements, and women suffragettes heard her speak from city to city, she took time to visit many American schools. During these visits, Suttner admitted being surprised that curricula and practices in many American schools reflected some good peace making pedagogy. Later, she noted in her writings how impressed she was that peace and pacifism played such a strong role in American school children's education [Recall that this 1900-era world was a much different American than we know in the 21st century. This was the era when a pacifist-progressive, William Jennings Bryan, thrice made strong runs for president of the USA.]
http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/O-W/Peace-Movements.html
In 1905, at the time when Barron von Suttner was originally offered the Nobel Peace Prize, she was still forced to earn a living as an author on the side. She had recently been publishing, for example in Hungarian and Austrian journals that same year. As she came on stage in 1906 to receive the Nobel Prize honor from Norway's King Haakon VII, the new King surprised the audience by rising and bowing to Mrs. Suttner. [Norway, by the way, had peaceably received its independence from Sweden only a year earlier.]
Suttner's legacy of ideas and activities has influenced peacemakers and human rights leaders directly and indirectly throughout the 20th Century. For example, four decades before the founding of the modern United Nations, Suttner had promoted the international codification of human rights. [The U.N. declaration was created in 1949 with the help of another woman leader, Eleanor Roosevelt.]
http://www.wic.org/bio/roosevel.htm
"Her last major effort, [was] made in 1912 when she was almost seventy. . .[It] was a second lecture tour in the United States, the first having followed her attending the International Peace Congress of 1904 in Boston. [Finally,] [i]n August of 1913, already affected by beginning illness, the Baroness spoke at the International Peace Congress at The Hague where she was greatly honored as the generalissimo of the peace movement."
http://www.universalrights.net/main/world.htm
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