Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points and the Women's Peace Movement

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The paper discusses how, in 1915, The Hague convention represented women from 22 different countries with the main focus of achieving peace. It examines how this process for peace was deemed feasible by a series of resolutions established by the Women's Peace Congress and how these resolutions focused on many key ideas that the Women's Peace Congress believed could create world peace. It demonstrates the irony of President Woodrow Wilson's refusal to lead the international mediation and how many of the principles established at the Women's Peace Congress in The Hague, were echoed with the publication of Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points, which earned him much international praise, three years later.

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"The principle for autonomy of nations is demonstrated in both the 14 points and the Resolutions adopted at Hague as well. The Women's Peace Congress was much broader as they simply stated, "autonomy and a democratic parliament should not be refused to any people (Addams, 3)." Wilson singled out the exact countries, "the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development." Wilson also requested the autonomy of the peoples of Austria Hungary, Rumania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Poland. The Women's Peace Congress simply expressed the belief that countries should be allowed autonomy, while Wilson's 14 Points rather put them into play in the specific nations that he felt were most important."

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