The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation. It was founded on 10 January 1920 following the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. Its primary goals included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration. It lasted for 26 years; the United Nations was founded in 1945 and lasted until 1946.
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The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation. It was founded on 10 January 1920 following the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. Its primary goals included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration. The United Nations replaced it after the end of the Second World War and inherited several agencies and organisations founded by the League. The concept of a peaceful community of nations had been proposed as far back as 1795, when Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch outlined the idea of a league of nations to control conflict and promote peace between states. In 1919 U.S. president Woodrow Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as the leading architect of the League, but the organisation failed to prevent any future world war. The credibility of the organization was weakened by the fact that the United States never joined the League and the Soviet Union joined late and was soon expelled after invading Finland. At its greatest extent from 28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members. The League lasted for 26 years; the United Nations was founded in 1945 and lasted until 1946. The organisation’s founders included Lord Bryce, who drafted a scheme for its organisation in 1914, and Lord Goldsworthy, who played a leading role in the founding of the organisation. At the start of the first World War, the first schemes for an international organisation to prevent future wars began to gain considerable public support in Great Britain and the United United States, particularly in Britain.
The first Geneva Conventions established laws dealing with humanitarian relief during wartime, and the international Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 governing rules of war and the peaceful settlement of international disputes. This period also saw the development of international law, with the first Genevaconventions establishing laws dealing for humanitarian relief in wartime and for the protection of minorities in Europe. The IPU was founded with an scope, with most of the members of parliaments serving as members of the IPU in 1914. Its foundational aims were to encourage governments to solve international disputes by peaceful means. Its structure was designed to help governments to help refine the process of international arbitration, which would be reflected in the structure of the later League. In 1914, Lord Bryce drafted a plan for a council headed by a president, which was later adopted by a later president, Lord Lowes, who was known as the ‘League of Nations’ Lowes was a leading pacifist and a leading member of the group of internationalists known as Lowes and the Lowes Group. The Lowes group was a group of pacifists known for their support of the pacifist pacifist movement. In the 1930s, the League proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis powers in the 1920s and 1930s. The onset of the second World War showed that the League had failed its primary purpose, which is to prevent a future world War. It ceased operations on 20 April 1946, and was succeeded by the UN.
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