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Emily Greene Balch

American economist and writer · United States · Academics · Lived 1867 to 1961 · aged 94

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She taught economics at Wellesley, then turned the same rigor she'd applied to poverty and child labor toward stopping war itself - and spent three decades running the world's largest women's peace organization from Switzerland.

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A life in dates

1961Died9 January 19611948“Another thing-men are everywhere becoming less "private-minded." There is a growing community sense.”In their words7 April 1948"Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism" (April 7, 1948)

“There has been personal refusal of war service on grounds of conscience on a large scale and at great personal cost by thousands of young men called up for military service.”In their words7 April 1948"Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism" (April 7, 1948)

“As we know only too well, the League of Nations, lacking Russia and the United States, was not sufficiently inclusive.”In their words7 April 1948"Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism" (April 7, 1948)

“I have spoken against fear as a basis for peace.”In their words7 April 1948"Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism" (April 7, 1948)

“We are not asked to subscribe to any Utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner.”In their words7 April 1948"Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism" (April 7, 1948)

1946Nobel Peace PrizeAward1915“The question of peace is a question of terms. Every country desires peace at the earliest possible moment at which it can be had on terms satisfactory to itself.”In their wordsSpeech at International Congress of Women at The Hague (1915)

1867Born8 January 1867

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  1. Another thing-men are everywhere becoming less "private-minded." There is a growing community sense.

    Apr 7, 1948, "Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism" (April 7, 1948), Own words

  2. Fear weakens the nerves and distorts the judgment.

    Apr 7, 1948, "Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism" (April 7, 1948), Own words

  3. There has been personal refusal of war service on grounds of conscience on a large scale and at great personal cost by thousands of young men called up for military service.

    Apr 7, 1948, "Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism" (April 7, 1948), Own words

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Nobel Peace Prize1946

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Emily Greene Balch began as an academic in 1867, splitting her early career between sociology at Wellesley College and settlement work aimed at poor immigrants and juvenile delinquency. When World War I broke out in 1914, she pivoted entirely, linking up with Jane Addams and becoming a central leader of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, an organization she would steer from its Swiss base for most of her life. The shift cost her the faculty post but gained her a global platform. In 1946, thirty-two years after that first wartime turn, she shared the Nobel Peace Prize with John Mott. She died the day after her ninety-fourth birthday in 1961.

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Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1867 to 1961 · aged 94

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