ABSTRACT

This chapter deals more directly with the if's, how’s, when’s, and where’s of what has come to be called “peace research.” Peace, hopefully, however, has not yet become completely taboo, although there are enough similarities to cause unease. Concern at the irrationality of man and the extraordinary danger of such irrationality in a world of competing nation-states armed with nuclear weapons are not enough. For a long time, theris was the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, whose members have done research and written about problems in such areas of public concern as race relations, civil rights, and peace and war. More recently, in 1960, beginning with a “working group” under Roger Russell, a continuing committee for the profession as a whole on Psychology in National and International Affairs was established.