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Section editor: Carolyn M. Stephenson, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Conflict Analysis and Resolution as a Field Nonviolent Struggle Peace Research/Peace Studies: A Twentieth Century Intellectual History Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding Carolyn M. Stephenson, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa The Peace Studies section of ISA was created in the period of the wave of criticism against the Vietnam War. Although many peace researchers would argue that peace research/peace studies is based in an entirely separate paradigm from that of international relations research and was in fact created as a deliberate alternative to international studies, others argue that it is a subfield of international studies. One might argue that the creation of the field of peace research has helped to change the field of international relations by refocusing it on one of its original goals, the application of research to understand the causes of war. Peace Studies was chartered as a section in 1972. Following positive responses to a questionnaire circulated to several hundred people by George Kent in December 1971 on the possibility of establishing a Peace Studies section, an organizational meeting and substantive panels were held at the 1972 annual meeting in Dallas. Elise Boulding, Lars Dencik, Karl Deutsch, and Dieter Senghaas agreed to participate in an informal panel on a “Transnational ... log in or subscribe to read full text