| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1937 |
| Number: | 3 - 1 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1857 |
| Year, Death: | 1941 |
| Profession: | Army officer. Founder of the Boy Scouts movement. |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | American Friends Service Committee |
| Year, Birth: | 1672 |
| City: | Washington, DC |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1947 |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Friends' Service Council |
| Year, Birth: | 1647 |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1947 |
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| Motivation: | Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts movement in 1907 and he organized the movement internationally. He and his sister Agnes founded the Girl Guides in 1910 (in the US Girls Scouts from 1912). In 1916 Baden-Powell organized the Wolf Cubs in Great Britain (Cub Scouts in the US) for boys under the age of 11. The nominators emphasized the brotherly mentality and the non-militaristic character of the movement.
The American Friends' Service Committee and Friends' Service Council advocated peace and pacifism. During WWI the Quakers performed relief work neglected by other humanitarian organizations. From the 1930s the Quakers mostly agitated for peace in ecclesiastical circles, and they initiated a peace committee for all English religious communities. The Quakers also aided political refugees coming from Germany, and for this purpose they established the organization "Service International d'Aide aux Réfugiés". |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Cornelius Bernhard Hanssen |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Shipowner. Member of the Nobel Committee (1913-1939). |
| City: | Flekkefjord |
| Country: | NORWAY (NO) |
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| Comments: |
The nominator suggested that the prize was either divided between the two Quaker organizations, or awarded Baden-Powell. |
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