[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Harry Targ on the passing of peace advocate, former C-U resident Clint Fink

[Boyle, Francis A]

Yeah, the CIAd Fascists in the Political Science Department here basically drove Berenice elsewhere precisely because she did Peace Studies and Feminist Studies and tried to unite them. Fab.

Since the 1980s Fink (and his partner Berenice Carroll) continued to do research focused on peace theory and peace action drawing connections between movements for peace and movements for justice (including justice for women, people of color, and workers). They both became chairs of COPRED (the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development--currently the Peace and Justice Studies Association) and were active participants in the International Peace Research Association. For a time they edited Peace and Change. In their most recent, and perhaps most significant scholarly work (2007), they edited and wrote an  introduction to Jane Addams’ classic essay, Newer Ideals of Peace.

In the extensive introduction Carroll and Fink link Addams’ theoretical and practical work to the core concepts of modern peace studies, addressing both direct and structural violence. They point out that Addams is a significant precursor to modern peace studies in that she theorizes and advocates for linking peace to social justice and scholarship to action. In a sense Fink’s earlier historical explorations were applied to this renewed recognition of Addams’ work as a guide for use in the twenty-first century.


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From: Peace <peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net> On Behalf Of Robert Naiman via Peace
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Subject: [Peace] Harry Targ on the passing of peace advocate, former C-U resident Clint Fink

I just learned of the recent passing of longtime peace advocate and former C-U resident Clint Fink.

Here's a remembrance from Harry Targ.

CLINT FINK AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PEACE STUDIES: RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND ACTIVISM
https://heartlandradical.blogspot.com/2018/03/clint-fink-and-development-of-peace.html

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Robert Naiman
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Just Foreign Policy
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