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Making peace
301 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1971
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Adam Curle
33 books2 followersAdam Curle was a British academic and Quaker peace activist. Over a period of almost forty years, he undertook international mediation of conflicts in India/Pakistan, Nigeria/Biafra, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Croatia. In 2000, he was the recipient of the Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award.
Curle was educated at Charterhouse School and Oxford University. He served in the British Army during the Second World War, and afterwards helped to rehabilitate ex-servicemen and prisoners of war. His academic work blended psychology and anthropology and in 1950 became the first lecturer in social psychology at Oxford University. He became a Quaker in 1959 while serving as a Professor of Education at the University of Ghana. He set up the Harvard Center for Studies in Education and Development in 1962 and in 1973 became the first professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, retiring in 1978. Towards the end of his life, he described himself as “a semi-lapsed Quaker and follower of the Dalai Lama.”
Curle defined peace, not simply as the absence of conflict but as “active association, planned co-operation, an intelligent effort to forestall or remove potential conflicts.” He also believed that "violence lies not so much in action as in a state of mind: it is ultimately the violence of the heart rather than of the body which damages us."
Curle was educated at Charterhouse School and Oxford University. He served in the British Army during the Second World War, and afterwards helped to rehabilitate ex-servicemen and prisoners of war. His academic work blended psychology and anthropology and in 1950 became the first lecturer in social psychology at Oxford University. He became a Quaker in 1959 while serving as a Professor of Education at the University of Ghana. He set up the Harvard Center for Studies in Education and Development in 1962 and in 1973 became the first professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, retiring in 1978. Towards the end of his life, he described himself as “a semi-lapsed Quaker and follower of the Dalai Lama.”
Curle defined peace, not simply as the absence of conflict but as “active association, planned co-operation, an intelligent effort to forestall or remove potential conflicts.” He also believed that "violence lies not so much in action as in a state of mind: it is ultimately the violence of the heart rather than of the body which damages us."
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