The Great War and Peace: An Introduction to Peace-Oriented Remembrance of WWI in Flanders Fields

"The peace-oriented tradition in the commemoration of the First World War has a long and complex history. During the inter-war period in Belgium, as in France, it was both veteran organisations and political movements which gave an important impetus to the origin of peace-oriented remembrance rituals and memorials." This essay from Maarten Van Alstein of the Flemish Peace Institute looks at how the First World War led to pacifist movements of war commemoration.