Dame Adelaide Lord Livingstone, DBE (née Stickney; 19 January 1881 – 14 September 1970) was an American-British human rights activist responsible for organising the Peace Ballot in 1934–35 to gauge the British public's sentiment in the winds of upcoming war with a rearming and aggressive Germany led by Adolf Hitler.
[1] At the outbreak of the First World War, Livingstone arrived in England, where she took a leading role in the repatriation of women and children in Germany and other Axis nations.
She was also sent to the Netherlands as a member of a British delegation that met with German representatives about the treatment of prisoners of war.
[1] Its Joint Presidents were Viscount Cecil (who inspired the campaign[3]) and Pierre Cot, Air Minister in the French Popular Front government.
The IPC aimed to co-ordinate the work of existing pacifist organisations and other groups opposed to war, and campaigned in support of the League of Nations on a policy of respect for treaty obligations, arms reduction and the peaceful resolution of conflict.