Elise Boulding: Writings on Peace Research, Peacemaking, and the Future

ISBN-13: 9783319309866 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 182 str.

J. Russell Boulding

Opis

This volume honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920 2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday. Known as the matriarch of the twentieth century peace research movement, she made significant contributions in the fields of peace education, future studies, feminism, and sociology of the family, and as a prominent leader in the peace movement and the Society of Friends. She taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1967 to 1978 and at Dartmouth College from 1978 to 1985, and was instrumental in the development of peace studies programs at both institutions. She was a co-founder of the International Peace Research Association (1964), the Consortium on Peace Research Education and Development (1970), and various peace and women s issues-related committees and working groups of the American Sociological Association and International Sociological Association."

Spis treści

Part I Elise Boulding on Peace Research and Peace Education: The Study of Conflict and Community in the International System (1967).- Peace Research: Dialectics and Development (1972).- Perspectives of Women Researchers on Disarmament, National Security and World Order (1981).- World Security and the Future from the Junior High School Perspective.- Peace Education: as Peace Development(1987).- Part II Elise Boulding on Peacemaking: The Child and Non-Violent Social Change (1978).- Image and Action in Peace Building (1988).- Some Thoughts on the Frontiers of Nonviolence (1998).

O autorze

Elise Boulding taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1967 to 1978 and at Dartmouth College from 1978 to 1985, and was instrumental in the development of peace studies programs at both those institutions. She was a co-founder of the International Peace Research Association (1964), the Consortium on Peace Research Education and Development (1970), and various peace and women’s issue related committees and working groups of the American Sociological Association and International Sociological Association.