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 May 2022 PHS Newsletter is now available

New series: Studies in Peace History (Brill), editors: Scott H. Bennett and Michael Clinton

2021 Peace History Society Virtual Conference: Struggling for justice, struggling for peace: peace history engages with visions and movements around racial, climate, gender, and social justice (October 2021).

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The PHS offers the following prizes (see the 2021 winners):

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

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The Peace History Society (PHS) is registered as a nonprofit in the state of Pennsylvania.