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- Title
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS.
- Abstract
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences opened a five-week summer institute devoted to the exploration of alternative means of handling conflict on 30 July 1962 at the Craigville Inn near Hyannis, Massachusetts. Dr. Hudson Hoagland, president of the American Academy, officially welcomed the 13 resident behavioral scientists who were engaged in intensive research regarding international conflict during the five-week period. The full-time participants, all of whom are specialists in some branch of the social sciences, were selected to include individuals with a competence in international law and decision making processes, economics, cultural anthropology, political science, history, mathematics, psychiatry, sociology and psychology. Acting on the belief that social and psychological forces lie at the base of conflict and of possible ways of dealing with this inevitable feature of social life, a small group at the academy has been working since last winter to bring into being an institute which would use the resources of the behavioral sciences to seek solutions which avoid the use of force for settling international conflict. The general objective of the institute is to reduce the threat of nuclear war through the development of alternative ways of handling conflict.
- Subjects
CONFLICT (Psychology) -- Social aspects; HUMAN behavior; SOCIAL sciences; INTERNATIONAL law; MANNERS &; customs; NUCLEAR warfare
- Publication
International Social Science Journal, 1963, Vol 15, Issue 1, p159
- ISSN
0020-8701
- Publication type
Article