Wales and the World

The David Davies Memorial Institute (DDMI) is conducting and supporting research on Welsh internationalism. The institute is using this page to bring research published in newspapers, journals, and elsewhere to the attention of the widest possible audience. Additional work on Welsh writers, activists and public figures promoting or engaged in internationalism will be added as time and opportunity permits.

David Davies (1st Baron Davies), 1880-1944

 "War cannot be eliminated unless it is possible to secure international justice" - Lord Davies of Llandinam (1920)

Lord Davies was a tireless campaigner for international justice, law, organization and peace. Throughout the final decades of his life, he argued that an international police force and an international tribunal to decide on all manner of dispute, with power behind its decisions, would eventually produce lasting world peace and security.

Please find below articles published on Lord Davies: 

 International Relations:

• Brian Porter, 'Lord Davies, E. H. Carr and the Spirit Ironic: A Comedy of Errors,' International Relations 16.1 (2002): 77-96
• Michael Pugh, 'Policing the World: Lord Davies and the Quest for Order in the 1930s,' International Relations 16.1 (2002): 97-115
• Paul Rich, 'Reinventing Peace: Davies Davies, Alfred Zimmern and Liberal Internationalism in Interwar Britain,' International Relations 16.1 (2002): 117-133
• Ken Booth, 'The Writing on the Wall,' International Relations, 21.3 (2007): 360-66
  

Western Mail:

• Grant Dawson, 'How Lord Davies believed he could end all War', Western Mail, (Tuesday 1 September 2009): 19