"Chaos, War, or a New World Order?" A Radical Plan for Peace and World Government in the 1930s. (27th August 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Threlkeld, Megan
• Is Part Of: Peace and change. Volume 43:Number 4(2018)
• Page Start: 473
• Page End: 497
• Publication Date: 2018-08-27
• Subjects: Peace -- Research -- Periodicals; Peace -- Periodicals; 327
• DOI: 10.1111/pech.12315
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0149-0508

Abstract

Abstract : In 1937, feminist pacifists Rosika Schwimmer and Lola Maverick Lloyd crafted a plan to federate the world. They envisioned an "all‐inclusive, nonmilitary, democratic Federation of Nations" and launched the Campaign for World Government to implement it. Even though their vision was never realized, their plan is important because it represented a vision of peace, justice, and equality far more radical that of other world government theorists in the 1930s—many of whom later helped shape the United Nations. Schwimmer and Lloyd sought a sweeping alternative to the international status quo, one that took the needs of ordinary men and women into account and gave them a voice in international relations.