Peace at Stanford

May 1990:

In a “Survey of my Professional and Other Activities at Stanford 1967-1974, 1977-1990,” from May 27, 1990, Peter Frank summed up all he had done to promote peace and justice studies at Stanford by writing:

“Concerned about the political development in the Cold War period, I sent in January 1982 a letter to Stanford’s President Kennedy and the Academic Senate suggesting that a Peace Research Center should be established at Stanford. This led to cooperation with Rev. Byron Bland and the Physicians for Social Responsibility and finally to the establishment of the Faculty Peace Studies Group, of which I am a member. In this connection, I suggested that Stanford invite Prof. Johan Galtung, who then lectured twice at Stanford.”

In 1990, Peter Frank retired from Stanford, culminating a decade of activism for peace studies at Stanford. His accomplishments also included the establishment of the "Introduction to Peace Studies" course, which would continue for another 17 years before ending in 2007.

Source:

Frank, Peter R. Peter R. Frank Papers.

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