SOURCE: "Nobel Peace Laureates, Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch: Two Women of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom," in Journal of Women's History, Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 6-26.

In the following essay, which was first presented at a conference of the Norwegian Nobel Institute in 1992, Alonso compares and contrasts the career of Addams with that of another radical pacifist and Nobel laureate, Emily Greene Balch.

In November, 1895, Alfred Nobel, wealthy inventor and entrepreneur, signed his last will and testament. In it, he stipulated that the major part of his estate be converted into a fund and invested, the interest to be used for prizes in five areas he wished to promote, one of which was peace.¹ Nobel's interest in the peace cause centered around his passionate friendship with Baroness Bertha von Nobel Suttner, Society. of as the a Austrian Peace Society.² Nobel envisioned the woman...