ERNESTO TEODORO MONETANobel Prize for Peace in 1907

"Perhaps it is not far from the day when all peoples, forgetting old grudges, will come together under the banner of universal brotherhood and, ceasing any dispute, cultivate relations among themselves entirely peaceful, such as trade and industrial activities, tightening solid connections . We are looking forward to that day. “

Journalist and patriot was born in Milan on September 20, 1833.

In 1866 he started writing for the newspaper the "Century". In those years several associations of pacifist nature were born in Europe with the aim to establish a Charter of Arbitration that would resolve international conflicts by recourse to law and not to violence.

He contributed to the creation of the "Society for Peace and Justice “ and passed from the activity of a journalist to that of speaker of pacifist ideas.In 1887 he founded "The Lombard Union for Peace" and the "Company for Peace and International Justice." In 1890 he founded the "Almanac for peace," a newspaper that reported frequent updates on National and International Congress on peace.

In 1895 he was designated as representative of the Italian Commission of the International Peace Bureau. In 1898 he founded the magazine " International Life" and his investigation and his commitment took on a decidedly cosmopolitan air that introduced him into the European background creating the conditions for the award of the Nobel Prize for peace.

In 1904 Moneta was elected president of the First National Congress of Peace in Turin and Vice-President at the 13th World Congress for Peace in Boston.In 1906 he organized a "Pavilion for peace," at the World Fair in Milan during which he led as president the15th International Congress on Peace ..

In 1907 he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federation of the Italian Company for Peace .For his meritorious work and activism against the war and for his numerous actions to the creation of an International Peace Movement on December 10,1907 he received the Nobel Prize for peace obtained for “his commitment and the foundation of Lombard Union for Peace and Arbitration "; prize which was a universal recognition of his numerous initiatives for peace and for the Civil Progress of mankind.

In 1908 he went to Norway where in the hall of the Institute for the Nobel Prize of Oslo he held a conference on “ Peace and Law in the Italian Tradition “,where he introduced his idea on peace based on Disarmament; International Arbitration; Federation.. On February 10, 1918 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta died , precursor of pacifism, a man who tirelessly preaching the idea of a universal pacifism , had consecrated all his life to the country, to humanity, to Civil harmony, to peace and brotherhood among peoples.