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Harris, Ian M.; Rank, Carol; Fisk, Larry J. – 1997
Peace studies explores organized non-violence and violence; their relationships to society, behavior, and consciousness; and ways of working toward a just and harmonious world community. Noting a fairly rapid growth in peace studies courses on college and university campuses during the last half of the 20th century, this report provides a…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Conflict Resolution, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Harris, Ian M. – 1990
The number of peace studies programs on campuses in the United States has grown dramatically since the first such program was begun in 1948. At the beginning of the 1990s, the world is experiencing a renaissance in peace related activities that include tearing down the Iron Curtain, nonviolent revolutions in Europe's East Bloc and the Philippines,…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Human Relations
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Harris, Ian M. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1996
Presents a case study of efforts by teachers in a large urban school district in Wisconsin to address problems of student violence by using peace-education strategies, describing district-wide initiatives, summarizing curricular reforms at the elementary and secondary levels, and explaining how urban teachers are teaching alternative…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Consciousness Raising