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Consortium on Peace Research, Education, and Development [COPRED] Records

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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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COPRED began in May 1970 when 35 people were invited to Boulder, Colorado, by Elise and Kenneth Boulding and Gilbert White. In the words of Elise Boulding, COPRED's purpose was: "to foster research, education and training in the areas of peace and world security and the channeling of relevant research information to governmental and non-governmental practitioners; that the coordination function would be a primary one; and that the founding Consortium members in the United States and Canada would seek contacts with Latin American institutions on the one hand and with the International Peace Research Association [IPRA] and other international bodies on the other."

Under its 1972 constitution, COPRED designated two classes of members: institutional and individual. Representatives from participating institutions formed the Consortium Council with the powers of a Board of Directors. COPRED held annual meetings and sponsored sessions with other organizations. The deliberate rotation of headquarters and executive director was intended to strengthen the communication network among members. COPRED strove to synchronize the precepts of peace research with teaching and action on a regional, national, and transnational level. Working committees during the early years of COPRED were the Committee on Youth, Education and Training, the Research Inventory Committee, and the Development Committee. Sociologist Elise Boulding, and Paul Wehr, Chairman of the Center for Nonviolent Conflict Resolution at Haverford College, provided much of COPRED's developmental leadership.

The major achievement of COPRED during its first six years was the establishment of peace studies programs at colleges and universities, and in primary and secondary schools. In addition to developing and circulating peace studies curricula, COPRED worked with campus ministries and created peace skills repertoires for educators. In addition, the organization fostered a research inventory network to gather and transmit peace and conflict data from the researcher to policy-makers and other researchers.

Between 1970 and 1976, COPRED cooperated with a number of other organizations and professional societies. COPRED considered itself the North American branch of the International Peace Research Association [IPRA]. It worked closely with UNITAR (the United Nations Universiity), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the international branch of the Peace Research Society, the Conference on Peace Research in History, and the American Sociological Association.

COPRED's journal "Peace and Change" is co-sponsored by CPHR.

COPRED merged with the Peace Studies Association in 2002, to form the Peace and Justice Studies Association.

Most of the folders in this collection bear the original titles given by COPRED itself. Papers within these folders are separated into: 1) reports and printed forms, and 2) correspondence, arranged chronologically. Material related to travel expenses was discarged. The collection is arranged into 11 series: I. Organization; II. Executive Committee; III. Consortium Council; VI. Committees and Task Forces; VII. Projects; VIII. General Correspondence; X. Council Member file; XI. Individual Member file. Documents are in chronological order except Series VIII to Series XI, which are in alphabetical order. Three later accessions have been added to the end of the collectiona; acc. 05A-038 (2.5 inches); acc. 08A-056 (1 box?); and, acc. 2014-009 (1 box of files of Joseph Fahey).

Guide to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 2nd ed., p. 21

Gifted by Charles Chatfield, 1985; William Keeney (for COPRED), 1979, 1984; acc. 05A-038; acc. 08A-056; acc. 2014-009

The pre-1980 records for COPRED were processed under NEH Grant No. 20111-81-1655. The original checklist for this collection was written by Archivist Martha P. Shane in June 1982. Archivist Anne Yoder updated it in July 2022.

A slide show and cassette ("Creating the Future: An Introduction to Peace Education" 1975) were removed to the Audiovisual Collection. These were formerly listed as Series XII on the finding aid.

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Archival Resource Key. Constitution.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Annual brochures.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Annual report, 1971-1972.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Organizing Committee: meeting minutes, October 11, 1970.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Meeting minutes (scattered) and other meeting material.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Nominating Committee.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Meetings.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Membership lists and biographical sketches.
Box 2

Archival Resource Key. Session/s with the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences [AAAS].
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Session/s with the Peace Science Society (International).
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Session/s with the International Studies Association.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Session/s with the American Sociological Association.
Box 3

Archival Resource Key. Reports.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Budgets.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. IRS tax exempt applications and letters.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Funding contacts made by Paul Wehr.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Fundraising possibilities.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Special contributions.
Box 3

Archival Resource Key. Research Utilization Task Force.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Research Inventory Task Force.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Transnational Exchange Program Task Force.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Committee on Youth, Education and Training.
Box 4

Archival Resource Key. Radical Perspectives Network -- Waskow Secrecy Pledge.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Campus ministries proposal.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Peace studies consultations with Paul Wehr.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Bibliography on world conflict and peace.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Program descriptions.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Vitae and resumes.
Box 5

Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from the American Personnel and Guidance Association.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Berenice Carroll (PEACE AND CHANGE, Journal of Peace Research).
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from the Community Crisis Intervention Center (Gerald W. Cormick).
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Juergen Dedring (UNITAR).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Directories with COPRED entries.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from the Earlham School of Religion (Hugh Barbour).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Yassin El-Ayouty.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Raga S. Elim (Universities and the Quest for Peace).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Clinton F. Fink.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Fund for Peace (NicholasNyary; D.H. Tiffany).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Barret Hollister (Quaker Program at the United Nations).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Morris Janowitz (Inter-University Seminar on Armed Force and Society).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Robert Johansen (Manchester College; Executive Committee, re: the constitution).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from the Johnson Foundation (Leslie Pafffrath).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Joseph Johnson (COPRED Development Committee).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Journal of PEACE AND CHANGE.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Cheryl Hollman Keen (Harvard University -- peace and conflict studies).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from George Kent (University of Hawaii).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Faye (Honey) Knopp (COPRED) Executive Committee).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Louis Kreisberg (Syracuse, New York).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Bernard Lafayette (COPRED Executive Committee).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Jerome Laulicht.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from James M. Lawson Jr. (COPRED Executive Committee).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters re: the Lentz Internerational Peace Research Award (A.K. Mitra; Peace Research Lab).
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Mary Ann McGivern (Curr. Dev. Task Force).
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Phillips Ruopp (COPRED Executive Committee).
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from UNITAR (Thomas Weiss).
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from U.S. Committee for UNICEF.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from Michael Wallace (COPRED Executive Committee).
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Letters to/from the World Without War Council.
Box 7

Archival Resource Key. International Contacts.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. International Peace Research Association: newsletters.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Marek Thee (IPRA).
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Kinhide Mushakoji.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Richardson Institute for Conflict and Peace Research (A. Mack, London).
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Frank Barnaby, Director).
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Takeo Uchida and M. Makagiansar (UNESCO, Paris).
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Uppsala University, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Sweden, 1971-1972.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. World University, Denmark.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Series X: Council Member File (A-Z).
Box 8-12
Archival Resource Key. Series XI: Individual Member File (A-Z).
Box 13-15

Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous, including reference material [3 folders], 1980s.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Board retreat, Falll 2000.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Constitution, 2001.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Conferences with Peace Studies Association, 1999-2001.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Merger with Peace Studies Association, 2002.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Correspondence.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Robert Coulson.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous material, 1973.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous material, 1974.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous material, 1975.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Conferences held.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Peace studies programs.
Box 1

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