The Wombat File Is Yours to Keep

In between a marathon of edits and a brief visit to the land of what Frank Zappa dubbed "unconcho," I give you this simple question.

What liberalizing movement -- whose name in English translation refers to a particular nation, but which was later picked up in subsequent use as a playful appelation for certain kinds of (typically change-oriented) sub-groups within larger organizations -- formally coalesced in Geneva in 1891, hundreds of miles from where the military students at its core were born?

First correct answer posted to comments wins an empty box of Maxalt-MLT 5 orally disintegrating tablets. Man, I could go for one of those about now. No Googling, or googling or GoOgLinG. One guess per comment but comment o comment o superman.