Pierre Ceresole

  • A question from the last ICM

    Recently I got a movie shot at the last International Committee Meeting (ICM) in Dhulikhel (Nepal) in December 2006. The DVD is quiet sophisticated, showing various impressions of the Meeting, parties and amusing interviews with participants. There the participants were asked funny questions like this one: “What colour of socks, did Ceresole wear”.

  • Ceresole replies to the minister of defence

    In the letter of July 19 to Pierre Ceresole the Swiss minister of Defence, Ruedi Minger, requested guarantees, that any kind of antimilitaristic propaganda should be avoided. Failing that, the ministry would not supply any materials. Ceresole answered him him a day later. The correspondence was in German. Here it is summarized in English.

  • Pierre Ceresole speaks

    These days Peter and are working in the Archives. On the ‘to do” list there are many small files here and there. Among them is a tiny publication, 3 x 5 cm, from 1951 with “Pierre Ceresole speaks”[2] as  its title. Marius from the Netherlands brought it to me some weeks ago. On a few…

  • En Allemagne et aux Indes pour la paix

    A very interesting publication by Ceresole under label ‘Service Civil International’ about a trip to Nazi Germany and explanation about need for international voluntary service for peace.