Remembering forward
Peter Speirs celebrates forty years of Peace Studies in Bradford
More than two hundred people from twenty-seven countries attended the recent conference ‘Why War?’ in celebration of forty years of Peace Studies at Bradford University. In 1974 the first postgraduate students arrived at Bradford’s new Department of Peace Studies, which was established by Quakers. The conference was organised by Caroline Hughes, the new professor of Conflict Resolution and Peace, whose post is being funded for three years by the Quaker Peace Studies Trust (QPST).
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