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JAN 4, 1970 • Article
Hope Rises from Ashes of World War I: CPU President William Merrill
The first major initiative of the Church Peace Union (now Carnegie Council) was an international conference in southern Germany, opening on August 1, 1914. However, in a ...
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JAN 3, 1970 • Article
Patriotism and Altruism: Prize-Winning Essay by Reinhold Niebuhr
As a response to World War I, in 1915-16 the Church Peace Union (now Carnegie Council) launched an innovative program of peace education in churches ...
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JAN 3, 1970 • Article
Andrew Carnegie's Welcoming Words to Gathering of the Trustees of the CHURCH PEACE UNION [now Carnegie Council] at his Home, February 10, 1914
"Truly, gentlemen, you are making history, for this is the first union of the churches in advocacy of international peace, which I fondly hope, and ...
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JAN 2, 1970 • Article
UNION is the Word! February 4, 1914
What's in a name? Carnegie's preference for "Union" over "Foundation" for the name of his new peace organization likely reflected his insistence that the board ...
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JAN 1, 1970 • Article
Andrew Carnegie's New Year Greeting, 1914
"We send this New Year Greeting, January 1, 1914, strong in the faith that International Peace is soon to prevail, thru several of the great powers agreeing ...
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DEC 13, 2021 • Initiative
Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative
The Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative (AIEI) is an impact-oriented community of practice seeking to understand how AI impacts equality for better or worse. AIEI works ...