Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John Mott), notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... John Raleigh Mott (May 25, 1865 - January 31, 1955) was a long-serving leader of the YMCA. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for his work in establishing and strengthening international Christian student organizations that worked to promote peace. ... The International Womens Congress for Peace and Freedom took place from Aptil 28 to 30, 1915 in the Hague (Netherlands) and was attended by 1136 participants from twelve nations. ...

Born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into a well-off family, she was amongst the first graduates of Bryn Mawr College in 1889. She continued to study sociology and economics in Europe and the US, and in 1896 joined the faculty of Wellesley College, becoming a full professor of economics and sociology there in 1913. Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Alternative meanings: Boston (disambiguation) The 18th-century Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. ... Bryn Mawr is also the name of an official neighborhood of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota Bryn Mawr College is a womens liberal-arts college located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, northwest of Philadelphia. ... Wellesley College is a womens liberal arts college that opened in 1875, founded by Henry Fowle Durant and his wife Pauline Fowle Durant. ...

During the First World War, she helped to found the League, and campaigned against America's entry into the conflict. Jump to: navigation, search World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ...

Her contract terminated by Wellesley because of her pacifist activities, she became an editor of The Nation, a well-known liberal news magazine, acted as secretary of the WILPF (a second term in 1934 without salary for a year and a half), did much work for the League of Nations. The Nation is a weekly leftist periodical devoted to politics and culture. ... Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism, an adherent of the ideology espousing individual liberty and private property, meaning varies country to country American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Modern liberalism, in the USA, describes a political ideology that favors government intervention to promote equality Political progressivism, a political... Jump to: navigation, search The League of Nations was an international organization founded after the First World War at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. ...

Balch became a Quaker in 1920. She never married. The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ...

References

• Nobel Committee information on 1946 Peace Prize laureates