* Peace Palace Library – Research Guide

* Markus Weimer, The Peace Dividend: Analysis of a Decade of Angolan Indicators, 2002 – 2012

* 1989 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

* 1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.

* 1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.

* 1946 – Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.

* 1843 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated.

* 1978 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is signed.

* 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.

* 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ( Treaty of Taipei ) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

* 1862 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher, diplomat, and educator, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1947 )

* 1913 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.

* 1920 – The Latvian – Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.

* 1559 – The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.

* 1975 – Jeremy Taggart, Canadian drummer ( Our Lady Peace )

* René Cassin ( 1887 – 1976 ), jurist and judge ; a recipient of the 1968 Nobel Peace Prize

* Gordon Wilson ( 1927 – 1995 ), Peace campaigner and Irish senator

Peasants in Arms: War and Peace in the Mountains of Nicaragua, 1979 – 1994.

In 1411, the First Peace of Thorn ended the Polish – Lithuanian – Teutonic War, in which the Teutonic Knights fought the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Eisenhower warned about the emerging military – industrial complex in his Chance for Peace Speech:

* 1953 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his " Atoms for Peace " speech, and the U. S. launches its " Atoms for Peace " program that supplied equipment and information to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.

* Bashar Tarabieh: " Education, Control and Resistance in the Golan Heights "; Middle East Report, No. 194 / 195, Odds against Peace ( May – Aug., 1995 ), pp. 43 – 47.

* Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John Brest-Litovsk the Forgotten Peace, March 1918, W. W. Norton & Company 1969.

The dedicatee long remained unidentified, but John Harley's researches into the heraldic design on the fly-leaf have shown that she was Lady Elizabeth Neville, the third wife of Sir Henry Neville ( Gentleman of the Privy Chamber ) of Billingbear in Berkshire, who was a Justice of the Peace and a warden of Windsor Great Park.

* Battersea Park, an 83 hectare green space laid out by Sir James Pennethorne between 1846 and 1864 and opened in 1858, and home to a zoo and the London Peace Pagoda.

He and his first wife had two children: Thomas Sheridan, who married Caroline Henrietta Callander, daughter of Col. Sir James Campbell Callander, of Craigforth, Stirling, and Ardkinglas, and was the father of the 4th Baroness of Dufferin and Claneboye, Caroline Sheridan and the 12th Duchess of Somerset ; and Edith Marcia Caroline Sheridan ( d. 9 April 1876 ), m. 30 June 1864 to John Francis Thynne, of Haynes Park ( 17 June 1830 – 30 January 1910, Justice of Peace, of the Marquesses of Bath, and had issue.

Sir Henry had believed in Peace, Retrenchment, and Reform, those amiable deities who presided so complacently over large portions of the Victorian era ... And now almost the last true worshipper at those large, equivocal altars lay dead ".

The first organised police forces in Ireland came about through the Peace Preservation Act in 1814 for which Sir Robert Peel ( 1788 – 1850 ) was largely responsible ( the colloquial name " Peeler " derives from his surname ), and the Irish Constabulary Act in 1822 formed the provincial constabularies.

* Fortescue, J. W., Sir ( 1906 ) A history of the British Army: Vol 4, From the fall of the Bastille to the Peace of Amiens 1789-1801, 3 pts, London: Macmillan

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG ( 16 October 1863 – 17 March 1937 ) was a British statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and half-brother of Neville Chamberlain.

In both 1925 and 1926, the Nobel Peace Prize was given to the lead negotiators of the treaty, going to Sir Austen Chamberlain ( with Charles Dawes ) in 1925 and jointly to Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann in 1926.

Bell was just three at the time, and the death led to a close relationship with her father, Sir Hugh Bell, 2nd Baronet, who was three times mayor of Middlesbrough, High Sheriff of Durham 1895, Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham, Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire.

*" Sir Norman Angell: The Nobel Peace Prize 1933: Biography " hosted by nobelprize. org.

On the conclusion ( 1360 ) of the Peace of Bretigny between England and France, Sir John Hawkwood led an army of English mercenaries, called the White Company, into Italy, which took a prominent part in the confused wars of the next thirty years.

Other poems by Chapman include: De Guiana, Carmen Epicum ( 1596 ), on the exploits of Sir Walter Raleigh ; a continuation of Christopher Marlowe's unfinished Hero and Leander ( 1598 ); and Euthymiae Raptus ; or the Tears of Peace ( 1609 ).

John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr CH, DSO, MC, FRS ( 23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971 ), known as Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, doctor, biologist and politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ).

#: General Sir assigns Gadget and Col. Nozzaire to protect the " Peace Arsenal " ( Gadget ) and his daughter during the party ( Col. Nozzaire ).

Peace with Persia freed his troops just as the Indian Mutiny broke out ; and he was chosen to command a column to quell disturbances in Allahabad, to support Sir Henry Lawrence at Lucknow and Wheeler at Cawnpore, and to pursue and utterly destroy all mutineers and insurgents.

* Sir Joseph Rotblat ( 1988-1997 ), physicist, one of the founders of the Pugwash Movement, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize.

The same day, Thomas Howard, a porter at the bagnio, confessed to Justice of the Peace Sir Thomas Clarges that he had been bribed by Toft's sister-in-law, Margaret, to sneak a rabbit into Toft's chamber.

David Cameron is the younger son of stockbroker Ian Donald Cameron ( 12 October 1932 – 8 September 2010 ) and his wife Mary Fleur ( née Mount, born 1934, a retired Justice of the Peace, daughter of Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet ).

* Sir John Miller, 3rd Baronet ( 1867 – 1918 ), Justice of the Peace and magistrate for Kent, 1889

A 1640 puritan-inspired petition raised by the townspeople against the local Justice of the Peace Sir Thomas Holte provides the first evidence of conflict with the country gentlemen who dominated local government.

Major Sir Frederic Arthur Kelley OBE ( 6 May 1863 – 29 May 1926 ) was a British Unionist Party politician, Justice of the Peace ( JP ) for the West Riding of Yorkshire and Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Rotherham from 1918 to 1923.

Sir Harry Vesey Brooke ( 1845 – 1921 ), younger son of the second Baronet, was a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace.

As part of the charity's continuing plan to raise awareness of Peace Day the charity has organized numerous concerts with the support of celebrities and musicians like Annie Lennox, Angelina Jolie, Joseph Fiennes, Sir Richard Branson, and the late Mo Mowlam.