Adam Curle

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Adam Curle (born July 4, 1916, died 28 September 2006) was a British academic and Quaker peace activist. His full name was Charles Thomas William Curle; he was known as "Adam" after the the town where he was born, L’Isle-Adam, north of Paris.

After serving in the British army during World War II, Curle became an academic, working as a lecturer in social psychology at the University of Oxford and then, from 1952, as professor of education and psychology at the then University College of the South-West of England, which shortly thereafter became the University of Exeter. In the later 1950s he travelled extensively, and during this period met his second wife, Anne, and with her joined the Quakers. He returned to full time academic work in 1962, when he set up the Harvard Center for Studies in Education and Development at Harvard University. In 1973 was chosen as the first professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, England. He did much to establish peace studies as an academic discipline. In 2000 he was the recipient of the Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award.