Elise Boulding: Writings on Peace Research, Peacemaking, and the Future (Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, 7)

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.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Study of Conflict and Community in the International System: Summary and Challenges to Research (1967)....Pages 3-15 Peace Research: Dialectics and Development (1972)....Pages 17-25 Perspectives of Women Researchers on Disarmament, National Security and World Order (1981)....Pages 27-41 World Security and the Future from the Junior High School Perspective (1981)....Pages 43-54 Peace Education as Peace Development (1987)....Pages 55-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 The Child and Nonviolent Social Change (1978)....Pages 69-91 Image and Action in Peace Building (1988)....Pages 93-112 New Understanding of Citizenship: Path to a Peaceful Future? (2003)....Pages 113-121 The Other America: The Forgivers and the Peacemakers (2003)....Pages 123-129 Witness to Islam’s Creativity: A Scholar’s Reflections on the Islamic Contribution to Peace Dialogue Among Faiths (2003)....Pages 131-133 Front Matter....Pages 135-135 Futurology and the Imaging Capacity of the West (1970)....Pages 137-158 The Dynamics of Imaging Futures (1978)....Pages 159-171 A Journey into the Future: Imagining a Nonviolent World (2002)....Pages 173-177 Back Matter....Pages 179-182 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 zmatriarchy 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