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Peace Studies: Social Movement or Intellectual Discipline?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2012

Kenneth W. Thompson
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Abstract

Introduced by a few small religious liberal-arts colleges in the 1940s, the reformist movement toward studying peace has recently gained momentum in larger academic auditoriums. The author cites prominent academicians currently examining this trend and presents the case for accepting grass-roots social activism as a crucial link to the closed world of policy-making elites. He places faith in individual thinkers to provide new insights and practical theories of peace studies in both national and international domains.

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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 4 , March 1990 , pp. 163 - 174
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1990

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