Local anxieties and world peace

This article examines the career of Osias Parnes, a little‐known figure in the Austrian peace movement and argues that, although his plans for world peace were ultimately inconsequential, his ideas are reflective of the way in which international visions actually encapsulated local preoccupations. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in the multiethnic and multiconfessional region of Galicia in the middle of the 19th century, Parnes would devote the latter half of his life to propagating an idea for an armed arbitral tribunal and a system of kindergartens to teach children a world language. Throughout his peace career, it is his concern at the nationalist disintegration of his homeland which dominates his ostensibly international visions

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