Elise Boulding Quotes
There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.
Boulding, Elise. Building a Global Civic Culture: Education for an Interdependent World. Teachers College Press, 1988.
Such a proposal was first made in America in 1792. See Benjamin Banneker.
It is not our business to collect trophies but to try … [to] bring back the world to peaceful habits
Many in England and the other allies wanted to punish France for their aggression under Napoleon by barring France from the Concert of Europe—an informal institution of the major powers of Europe. Castlereagh’s view prevailed and France was included.
Elise M. Boulding was a Norwegian-born American Quaker sociologist, and author credited as a major contributor to creating the academic discipline of Peace and Conflict Studies. Her holistic, multidimensional approach to peace research sets her apart as an important scholar and activist in multiple fields. Her written works span several decades and range from discussion of family as a foundation for peace, to Quaker spirituality to reinventing the international "global culture". Particularly of note is her emphasis on women and family in the peace process. Boulding was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.
