[1]: 33-34 [2] That same year saw the foundation of the International Voluntary Service for Peace (IVSP), the British branch of SCI, with Cérésole as president and Jean Inebuit, a Swiss school-teacher working in Leeds, as secretary.

[1]: 45-47 During the Spanish Civil War, IVSP sent a team of volunteers to a farm at Puigcerdà, near the French frontier, to produce food for children's colonies in the area.

[1]: 75-76  During the summer of 1939, IVSP volunteers worked on a Quaker-run project to convert Carclew House in Cornwall into a reception centre for refugees.

The Forestry Commission paid the men's wages to IVSP who provided board and lodging and pocket money to the workers and used the surplus to fund more projects.

[1]: 84-88  Other war-time projects included: aid to the Emergency Feeding Department in the borough of West Ham in east London; renovation of a hostel for war refugees in Market Rasen; a demolition service to clear bomb-damaged sites in Croydon and West Ham; and agricultural work in Whitehaven and Clows Top.

[3] Under the leadership of Judd, IVS moved away from purely "pick and shovel peace making" and towards more social programmes, for example recruiting volunteers to work in general and psychiatric hospitals.

[8] The original logo of the word Pax (Latin for Peace) written over a shovel and broken sword has been replaced with a dove on a blue background.