Reaching 50: Jeff Beatty of Quaker Peace Studies Trust

‘A success against all odds.’

by Jeff Beatty 29th September 2023

The Quaker Peace Studies Trust was set up in 1972 to support the creation of a chair in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, and for ‘financing research into, and the teaching of, peace studies’. This was two years after Friends decided to part-fund a Peace Studies Centre in the UK. Thanks to the generosity of Friends, an appeal raised the necessary £75,000 match funding in ten weeks. This allowed the university to appoint Adam Curle, who arrived from Harvard, as the first professor of Peace Studies in the UK, in 1973.