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why is there not a list of all the colleges in This page needs SERIOUS alteration!

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[edit] First institute

PRIO was founded in 1959 ...

... yet it only claims to be "one of the first". Anyone knows a reliable source as to which was the very first? 83.108.170.230 19:13, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Major addition of text

I've written most of this page from scratch. Please do add to it and correct any mistakes I may have made. Thanks, --SianMycock 23:26, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Overlap

There seems to be substantial overlap between Conflict resolution, Conflict resolution research, and Peace and conflict studies. Perhaps one or more merges are advisable. --Rinconsoleao 07:11, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Peace deserves better

Folks this article is full of original research (except for the paragraph I dropped in, there are no sources), the external links are mostly spam (so what if some university has an undergraduate major in Peace Studies!), and even the text has paragraphs of spam. I removed this one:

Established in the 80's, at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR), faculty and students are committed to the development of theory, research, and practice that interrupt cycles of violence. ICAR is an innovative academic resource for people and institutions worldwide. It comprises a community of scholars, graduate students, alumni, practitioners, and organizations in the field of peace making and conflict resolution. ICAR is a Commonwealth Center for Excellence, recognized for its leadership in the field and its world-renowned faculty.

I'll do a little work with this article, which in the first round means cutting out about half of it. Please let me know now if I'm likely to step on your toes. --Anthon.Eff 15:27, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

It looks like you are off to a good start. This is one of the articles I have just enough knowledge in to watch, but I haven't had time to do further research and work on it. Sxeptomaniac 23:14, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] deleted external links

I'm removing these from the external links. Most of them are links to an academic course of instruction; some are links to activist campaigns. I left in everything that seemed like it was a research institute, but we are still way above Wikipedia guidelines for number of external links.

[edit] Historical origins

This entire section is original research. If you would like to put it back into the article, appropriate sources must be cited. There also seems some question as to whether this background is sufficiently important to the article as to require three paragraphs.

The First World War was a turning point in Western attitudes to war. The expression "the war to end all wars" reflected the traumatic events and subsequent flu epidemic. US President Woodrow Wilson had been responsible for taking the USA into the war and this coincided with the emergence of the USA as a major world power. At the 1919 Peace of Paris where the leaders of France, Britain and the USA (Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Wilson) met to decide the future of Europe, Woodrow Wilson proposed Fourteen Points. These included breaking up European empires into nation states and the establishment of the League of Nations. These moves, intended to ensure a peaceful future, were the background to a number of developments in the emergence of Peace Studies as an academic discipline.
The Department of International Politics was established in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1919. David Davis was the first "Woodrow Wilson Chair". The first blow to Wilson's peaceful vision was the rejection of US membership of the League of Nations by the United States Congress. The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of fascism and military dictatorships. Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco and Josef Stalin all came to power and militarism was on the rise in Japan. International relations became increasingly dominated by the realists and dealt mainly with the international politics of power between states. Examples of peaceful figures were seen as unrealistic in the face of aggressive dictators. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain followed a policy of appeasement in an attempt to temper the aggressive ambitions of Hitler. A strong opposing view was that the West should confront Hitler and build up forces to match German rearmament.
After the nuclear bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War the United States was in a unique position of being the only nuclear power. The gap was soon closed when the USSR acquired nuclear weapons in 1949. At the emergence of the Cold War, Peace and Conflict Studies was be the normative academic subject no longer represented by the broadly realist International Relations.

--Anthon.Eff 18:48, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removing SPAM or near SPAM

What follows seems like SPAM. When we mention specific programs, they should be prominent, and there should be some information about what they do that makes them stand out from the 200 other programs. Otherwise, it is just SPAM.

For example, the University of Bradford established a Chair of Peace Studies in 1972 and now boasts its own Peace Studies department. In the 1960s the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute was endowed by the Swedish government. More recently a Centre for Peace Studies, to do Peace Research and coordinate the Master's in Peace and Conflict Transformation was established at the University of Tromsø, Norway in 2002, and a year later a master's programme in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Oslo.

--Anthon.Eff 19:37, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Philosophy of peace

Is this academic discipline informed in any way by philosophy, as science is informed by a philosophy of science?

I am beginning to learn about various philosophies of peace, and I was disappointed that Wikipedia didn't have an article about it. So I'm trying to create one by accretion; not the best method, I'm sure!

I've heard of slogans like "Speak softly but carry a big stick", but seriously what sorts of philosophy or ever religion are devoted to peace? And what philosophies have actually brought about peace on any level? --Uncle Ed (talk) 23:18, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

If you are asking "what philosophies have brought about peace?" there is no unambiguous answer. But if you are asking "which philosophers have talked about peace?" then the answer would be (at least for the West), "begin with Immanuel Kant." --Anthon.Eff (talk) 02:47, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help at Peace?

This article seems well written and well cited. Any chance some of you guys knowledgable about peace stuff can come over to peace and help clean it up? I have been wrangling with POV and original research at the peace page for well more than a year now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dudeman1st (talk • contribs) 18:33, 21 December 2007 (UTC)