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    Pierre Cérésole or Ceresole (17 August 1879 – 23 October 1945) was a Swiss pacifist, remembered for founding the peace organisation Service Civil International...
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    Justice and Police (1874–1875) His son Pierre was a noted pacifist. Cérésole died 1905 in Lausanne. "Avenue Paul-Cérésole" in Vevey is named for him. "Frühere...
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  • member of the Swiss Federal Council (1870–1875) Pierre Cérésole (1879–1945), Swiss pacifist Norberto Ceresole (1943–2003), Argentine sociologist Cerisoles...
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    first meeting with the Service Civil International (SCI) founder, Pierre Cérésole, took place in 1917 in a public meeting. where he announced his refusal...
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    is an international peace organisation, founded by Swiss pacifist Pierre Cérésole in the aftermath of World War I to foster understanding and a culture...
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  • into five army corps. Paul Cérésole, a member of the Federal Council from 1870 to 1875 and father of the pacifist Pierre Cérésole, was in 1891 given command...
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  • who served in the Revolutionary War and afterward as a glassmaker Pierre Cérésole (1879–1945), Swiss founder of Service Civil International Whittaker...
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    service, and, not least, in the Civil Service Movement founded by Pierre Cérésole in the early 1920s. A number of them had been to the Quaker centre...
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  • Rights Benny Cederfeld de Simonsen (1865–1952) – Danish peace activist Pierre Cérésole (1879–1945) – Swiss engineer, founder of Service Civil International...
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    of Verdun in World War I. Behind this initiative was Swiss pacifist Pierre Cérésole, who came up with the idea at a peace conference in 1920 that was part...
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    Leonhard Ragaz and Pierre Cérésole. Many of the participants were conscientious objectors who were detained during World War I. Cérésole was appointed as...
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  • Pierre Cérésole and international volunteers at the first workcamp in France in 1920...
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  • in the creation of the organisation, among them Lilian Stevenson, Pierre Cérésole, and its first secretary, Richard Roberts. Stevenson later wrote up...
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    some farfetched fantasy. He also fought against civil war ideology." "Cérésole was the founder of an international voluntary relief service (Service volontaire...
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  • Lw/Po) Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC – c. AD 50, Ancient Rome, M) Pierre Cérésole (1879–1945, Switzerland, Po/R) in French James Chadwick (1891–1974...
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  • themselves as members. IFOR first secretary was the Swiss pacifist Pierre Cérésole jailed several times for his peace witness. He established the Service...
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    organization Service Civil International (SCI), created in 1920 by Pierre Cérésole. During the Spanish Civil War, Olgiati was the secretary of the Swiss...
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  • Brynmawr experiment came to the attention of Pierre Cérésole, founder of Service Civil International. Pierre had been made aware of the project by fellow...
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  • and went into local politics, becoming Mayor of St Pancras in 1921. Pierre Cérésole and Marguerite Gobat taught at the school. Also on the staff was the...
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    in large numbers to Japan at that time. He befriended Swiss Quakers Pierre Cérésole and Edmond Privat. On October 14, 1922, Ayusawa married Tomiko Yoshioka...
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    of which IVS is a branch, was set up by Swiss engineer and pacifist Pierre Cérésole in the aftermath of World War I. It organised European workcamps in...
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    by this last grouping near Paris that she came across the ideas of Pierre Cérésole. She also became associated with the circle of Christian pacifists...
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  • International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR). Also involved in this was Pierre Cérésole who participated in these meetings and decided to found the Service...
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    Pierre Graber (6 December 1908 – 19 July 2003) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970–1978). He was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds...
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  • Philippe Vernier (France), Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze (Germany), Pierre Ceresole (Switzerland), Muriel Lester (England), George Lansbury MP (former...
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    International Voluntary Service was founded in 1931 by the Swiss Quaker Pierre Ceresole ICOPA, the International Conference on Penal Abolition, formerly the...
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    Revoyne, Mathilda Wrede, Leonard Ragaz, Pierre Ceresole, as well as Hodgkin and Schultze. Boeke and Ceresole became the secretaries of this movement,...
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    However, the money was never paid to the Nazis. Jean-Marie Musy's son Pierre received numerous equestrian competition titles and won the four-man bobsleigh...
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    through the Service Civil International NGO. He had read the book by Pierre Ceresole, the Swiss founder of this organisation, and even more importantly...
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    Pierre Aubert (3 March 1927 – 8 June 2016) was a Swiss politician, lawyer and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1978–1987). He was elected to the Swiss...
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