Center for War/Peace Studies

The Center for War/Peace Studies, "a non-profit, tax-exempt U.S. organization incorporated in 1977, is a "think tank" located in the United Nations backyard. The central objective of the CW/PS is to establish an international political and legal system that will make possible the abolition of war."

Separate Group with same name

The Center for War/Peace Studies of the New York Friends Group (Quakers).

They formerly published the War/Peace Report which was "devoted to war/peace issues in general, with a lot of attention to the role of the United Nations; it was not specifically focused on Vietnam, though it did pay attention to Vietnam. Some issues have been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University".

People

Accessed September 2008:

• Executive Director - Lucy Law Webster
• Director of Programs - Juan Federer
• Peace, Environment Network - E. Scott Ryan, Director
• Board Chair - Hamilton Kean
• Vice Chair - Myron W. Kronisch
• Secretary-Treasurer - Francis M. Ssekandi
• Assistant Treasurer - Naushard Cader

Directors at Large

• Arlene Bassett
• Jim Bernet
• Karl Fossum
• S. Azmat Hassan
• Modeste G. Seri
• Joan M. Warburg

Board of Sponsors

• John B. Anderson
• Elise Boulding
• Walter Cronkite
• Melvin Dubin
• Benjamin B. Ferencz
• Louise S. Hoffman
• Ned Kassouf & Joyce Kassouf
• Alice Mathias
• Russell W. Peterson
• Major General Indar Jit Rikhye (Ret.)
• Yoshikazu Sakamoto
• Pete Seeger
• J. David Singer
• George Soros

Founder

• Richard Hudson, Founder of the Center for War/Peace Studies, and author/creator of the Binding Triad

Other Early Leaders

• Robert Gilmore
• Harrison B.W. Hoffman, former Chair, CW/PS
• Robert Rosenstock
• Louis B. Sohn
• Paul C. Szasz, author of CW/PS study, "Alternative Voting Systems in International Organizations"

Contact

Web: http://www.cwps.org

The Center for War/Peace Studies, Inc. 330 East 38th Street, Suite 19Q New York, NY 10016