The General Act for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes is a multilateral convention concluded in Geneva on September 26, 1928.
[2] The General Act reflected divisions within the League over how to achieve the collective security envisioned by Articles 11 and 16 of the League of Nations Covenant, e.g. Fridtjof Nansen championed the use of compulsory arbitration, while the United Kingdom refused the idea of compulsory deferment of even a limited range of disputes to the Permanent Court.
[2] The result was a treaty which did not contain the automatic mechanisms of the failed 1924 Geneva Protocol, and which was considered an unambitious substitute in comparison.
As a result, it was replaced in 1949 by a revised act drafted by the United Nations Organization[3] and then by the Manila Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes.
[4] It also served as the basis for the European Convention for the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes, concluded in 1957.