Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2020
The chapter traces the emergence of transnational humanitarianism and efforts towards disarmament from the nineteenth century through to the outbreak of the Second World War. It explores the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 as exercises in humanitarian disarmament, and the neglected but significant work of the League of Nations. In studying the League’s legacy of humanitarian disarmament, a number of initiatives are explored including the ambitious but ultimately doomed Disarmament Conference 1932–1934, the creation and work of the League’s Temporary Mixed Commission on Armaments and its Permanent Armaments Commission, and the negotiation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol.
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