Journey towards world peace
Subtitle: a history of the New Zealand Peace Council : half a century in the cause of peace, 1948-1998
By: [by John Urlich]
Publisher: Lake Ohia Publications
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Wellington, [N.Z.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: History; Peace movements; Peace Council of Aotearoa New Zealand
Description: " ... Brief history of the New Zealand Peace Council (NZPC) ...On 3 November 1948 a committee was formed in Auckland called the Anti-Conscription and Peace Council, later renamed the New Zealand Peace Council in 1950. Members from the foreign affairs sub-committees of the Trades Council's which formed branches of the World Peace Council in 1949 and members from the Peace and Anti Conscription movment (which for the most part went into recess in 1950), joined forces following a Peace Congress in 1951 in a reconstituted New Zealand Peace Council ..." -- Acknowledgements (Page 1).
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: The orgins & history of the NZ Peace Council 1948-78; title: Anti-conscription movenment 1948-1952; title: Protests against nuclear weapons tests 1950-96; title: Korean & Viet Nam Wars, and military interventions; title: History of the regeneration Peace Council 1978-1998; title: Issues facing the Peace Movement; title: Reports on conferences; title: Other reports; title: Submissions to Parliament ; Miscellaneous ; Constitution.