How Peace Activists Saved the World from Nuclear War

November 16, 2010
Tisch 304 | 7:00pm9:00pm

 Lecture and Discussion with

Lawrence Wittner, Author of the trilogy on The Struggle Against the Bomb

Lawrence Wittner is a Professor of History at SUNY Albany and the author of seven books -- including the trilogy on The Struggle Against the Bomb, and the editor or co-editor of another four.  From 1984 to 1987, he edited Peace and Change.  His article "Peace Movements and Foreign Policy" won the Charles DeBenedetti Award of the Conference on Peace Research in History in 1989, and his One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement through 1953 received the Warren Kuehl Book Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1995.  Wittner also chaired the Peace History Commission of the International Peace Research Association.  Blending intellectual life with political activity, Wittner has been active since 1961 in the racial equality, labor and peace movement.  He is currently a national board member of Peace Action, the largest peace organization in the US.

Cosponsored by Peace and Justice Studies