World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 IMC FBN 125-9
Held at	: School of Oriental and African Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html ›
Full title	: World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches
Date(s)	: 1906-1948
Level of description	: Sub-fonds of INTERNATIONAL MISSIONARY COUNCIL View parent record
Extent	: 289 microfiche
Name of creator(s)	: World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches was founded at Constance in 1914 with the help of the Church Peace Union, with which it remained closely associated. It was supported by church leaders in Europe and America and national groups from a number of different countries were federated to it. It was an ecumenical movement working for peace. After World War Two attempts to re-establish the Alliance were unsuccessful and, as the World Council of Churches and International Missionary Council set up the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches was formally dissolved in 1948.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Microfiche copy of the archive, 1906-1948, of the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches, including minutes of International Council and committees including a refugee committee, records of the Youth Commission, records of its conferences, records on relations with other organizations, records on peace negotiations and minority questions, and correspondence between its leaders.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright held by the World Council of Churches.

Finding aids:

Handlist produced by the publisher.

Archival Information

Archival history:

The records passed to the International Missionary Council.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired in 2001.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
May 2002