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Reprint of “De Wapens Neer!” now available in the Netherlands

On Peace Day, September 21st 2019, the reprint of the famous novel "Lay Down your Weapons!" was presented in the Peace Palace. This modern Dutch translation was presented to UNESCO chairman Kathleen Ferrier and some 70 crowd funders. Translators were Ms. Lilian Caris and Ms. Iris van der Blom; the publisher is Orlando. The book is available in bookshops and in the Peace Palace visitor center. Thanks are given to the initiators: the Peace Palace Library, the visitor centre, the Austrian Emb...
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Peace Palace Library Lecture by Dr. Peter van den Dungen

Peace Palace Library Lecture – 9th June 2018   101 Friends of Bertha von Suttner*   It is a great pleasure and honour to give this Peace Palace Library Lecture; I am most grateful to the director of the library, Jeroen Vervliet, for hosting it in this historic reading room. I am grateful to you all for being here and wanting to pay tribute to Bertha von Suttner on the 175th anniversary of her birth. Birthday anniversaries are occasions when family and friends come togeth...
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Honoring Bertha von Suttner: Female Peacemakers Speak About Their Work Within Disarmament Institutions

In cooperation with HagueTalks, the Bertha von Suttner Peace Institute organized a student event on Thursday, June 7, 2018 in the Humanity House.  The event included speakers Deepti Choubey from OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) and Marzhan Nurzhan from Abolition 2000.  Moderator Alyn Ware, who is the Global Coordinator for PNND (Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament) guided the audience through a debate that discussed ho...
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