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Elise Boulding has been called the “matriarch” of the twentieth century peace research movement. Boulding, sociologist emeritus from Dartmouth College, is noted for her scholarly accomplishments in three key academic areas of study—peace, women and futures. She was in “on the ground floor” of each of these emerging disciplines and eventually played pivotal leadership roles within each.
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Mary Lee Morrison is the author of Elise Boulding: A Life in the Cause of Peace (Jefferson, NC: McFarland) and the founder and director emeritus of Pax Educare, The Connecticut Center for Peace Education in Hartford, CT. She served as co-editor for a special issue of the Journal of Peace Education on the life and work of Elise Boulding published August, 2012.
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Boulding, J.R. (2017). Biographical Information About Elise Boulding. In: Boulding, J. (eds) Elise Boulding: A Pioneer in Peace Research, Peacemaking, Feminism, Future Studies and the Family. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31364-1_1
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