Peace History Society

Plenary Session "The Peace History Society: A History and Analysis by Some of Its Early Leaders" at 2007 PHS Conference "Historical Perspectives on Engendering War, Peace and Justice"

The Peace History Society was founded in 1964 to encourage, and coordinate national and international scholarly work to explore and articulate the conditions and causes of peace and war, and to communicate the findings of scholarly work to the public.

Members of PHS seek to broaden the understanding of and possibilities for world peace. The membership includes anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other scholars and students of movements for peace and social justice, international and military affairs, transnational and cross-cultural analyses, and literary studies. Many members teach related course in colleges, universities, or secondary schools; others are students, peace activists, and the interested public. Drawn not only from North America but from around the world, members are concerned with making peace research relevant to the scholarly disciplines, policy makers, and to their own societies.

The August 2020 PHS Newsletter is now available (also available as a pdf for downloading and/or printing).

Racial Justice and Peace History: A Special Issue of Peace & Change, Robbie Lieberman, Editor (essays due January 15, 2021)

Peace History Society Statement in Support of Black Lives Matter and the Work to Undo Racial Injustice and Oppression (July 2020)

The PHS offers the following prizes (see the 2019 winners):

• Scott Bills Memorial Prize in Peace History
• Charles DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History
• Elise Boulding Prize in Peace History
• Lifetime Achievement Award

2019 PHS Conference: Commemorating Violent Conflict: Building Sustainable Peace (Kent State University, October 24-26, 2019).

Charles Chatfield (1934-2015)

F. Hilary Conroy (1919-2015)

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Charles Chatfield receives the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from PHS president Scott Bennett.

Charles F. Howlett, "American Peace History since the Vietnam War," Perspectives on History (December 2010): 35-38.

Virginia S. Williams, "The Peace History Society: An Affiliate of the AHA since 1963," Perspectives on History (November 2009).

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