Peace History Society

Roundtable at 2005 PHS Conference "Peace Activism and Scholarship: Historical Perspectives of Social, Economic, and Political Change"

PHS Peace History Conferences

The Peace History Society has sponsored a number of major conferences on its own or in collaboration with other organizations. Some of the most recent of these include:

• Toward a Peaceful World: Historical Approaches to Creating Cultures of Peace (Peace History Society conference, Winthrop University, October 29-31, 2009)
• War And Its Discontents: Understanding Iraq And The U.S. Empire, co-sponsored with Historians Against the War (Atlanta, Georgia, April 11-13, 2008)
• "Historical Perspectives on Engendering War, Peace and Justice" (Georgian Court University, Lakewood, NJ, October 19-20, 2007)
• "Peace Activism and Scholarship: Historical Perspectives of Social, Economic, and Political Change" (Winthrop University, 2005) (photos)
• "Peace Work: The Labor of Peace Activism, Past, Present, and Future" (Central Michigan University, 2003)
• "Politics of Peace Movements: From Nonviolence to Social Justice" (Western Washington University, 2000)
• "Peace and War Issues: Gender, Race, Identity, and Citizenship" (University of Texas at San Antonio, 1997)
• "Peace and War Issues: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity" (Rutgers University, 1994).

Select papers from these conferences appeared as special issues of Peace & Change. Additionally, PHS organized impressive panels for the Hague Appeal for Peace (1999) and in conjunction with the meeting of the International Congress of Historical Sciences in Oslo (2000). Working via the Peace History Commission (an international body that PHS organized), the Peace History Society has enabled scholars to appear on panels at meetings of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in Valetta, Malta (1994), Brisbane, Australia (1996), and Durban, South Africa (1998).

The Peace History Society has consistently sought to maintain an ongoing dialogue with other academics who do not necessarily share the same methodologies and fields of interest. For example, PHS has held successful joint conferences with the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the American Military Institute.