Peace History Society Biennial Conference
“Peace Across the Ages: Legacies, Lessons, and Change”
November 6-8, 2025
Berry College
Mount Berry, GA

Panel 1: Legacies and Lessons of Intergenerational Peacebuilding in Africa

Chair and Commenter: Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy
Presenter: Henrike Vellinga, Leiden University

Photos by Yi Deng

 

The Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Melvin Small (photos by Yi Deng and PHS president Gail M. Presbey)

Berry College president Dr. Sandeep Mazumder and Keynote Speaker Dr. Mary Dudziak, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Emory University, “War and Peace in Time and Space” (photos by PHS president Gail M. Presbey)

Panel 6: Women’s Roles in Peacebuilding and Protests for Change

South African Women’s Protests against Pass Laws and Internal Borders: Their Relevance for Women at International Borders Today
Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy
Peace Bodies: Women, Encampments, and the Struggle against Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War, 1979-1992
Janette Aileen Clay, North Park University

Panel 8: Exemplary Women in the Fight for Peace

Chair and Commenter: Carolien Stolte, Leiden University
Kathleen Lonsdale: Living a Life of Integrity in Challenging Times
Deborah Buffton, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
A Buffer and a Bridge: Mary Emma Wooley at the 1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference
Christy Jo Snider, Berry College

Panel 9: International Coalitions for Peace in the Era of Decolonization

Chair and Commenter: Michael Clinton, Gwynedd Mercy University
Towards a (More) Global History of International Peace Advocacy
Carolien Stolte, Leiden University
Nature’s Violence: The Intellectual Origins of Nonviolence in Evolutionist and Ecological Ashrams
Floris de Ruiter, Leiden University
Forgotten Paths to Independence: Peace, Pacifism, and the Decolonization of the Maghreb
Daniele Paolini, Leiden University

Panel 11: The Diplomacy of Peace

Chair and Commenter: Laurence Marvin, Berry College
Helping to Negotiate a New Law of the Sea Treaty in the 1970s: Lessons for Today’s Peace and Environmental Activists
Ralph Levering, Davidson College
Shifting Affinities: Mapping the Relationship between Weapons Prohibitions and Pacifism, 1860s-1920s
Elena Kempf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TED Talk Peace: An Analysis
Stephen W. Minnema, Independent Scholar