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* ''The American Peace Movements''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/American-peace-movements-History-causes/dp/B0006EML66|title=The American Peace Movements|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>, Advocate Press, 1985
* ''The American Peace Movements''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/American-peace-movements-History-causes/dp/B0006EML66|title=The American Peace Movements|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>, Advocate Press, 1985
* ''The Seville Statement on Violence: Preparing the Ground for the Constructing of Peace''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/Ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=94314&set=00580BC4C9_3_218&gp=&lin=1&ll=c|title=The Seville Statement on Violence: Preparing the Ground for the Constructing of Peace|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>, UNESCO 1991
* ''The Seville Statement on Violence: Preparing the Ground for the Constructing of Peace''<ref name="unesdoc.unesco.org">{{cite web | title=The Seville Statement on Violence: preparing the ground for the construction of peace; 1991; 1992 | website=unesdoc.unesco.org | url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/Ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=94314&set=00580BC4C9_3_218&gp=&lin=1&ll=c | access-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref>
* ''Psychology for Peace Activists''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-peace-activists-psychology-generation/dp/B0006EOYCU|title=Psychology for Peace Activists|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>, Amazon 1995
* ''Psychology for Peace Activists''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-peace-activists-psychology-generation/dp/B0006EOYCU|title=Psychology for Peace Activists|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>, Amazon 1995
* ''UNESCO and a Culture of Peace: Promoting a Global Movement''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0010/001066/106650eb.pdf|title=UNESCO and a Culture of Peace: Promoting a Global Movement|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>, UNESCO 1995
* ''UNESCO and a Culture of Peace: Promoting a Global Movement''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0010/001066/106650eb.pdf|title=UNESCO and a Culture of Peace: Promoting a Global Movement|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>, UNESCO 1995

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David Adams

David Adams (born 1939 in Missouri) is a peace activist, scientist, scholar, writer and journalist. He went to UNESCO following a career as Professor at Wesleyan University where he ran a brain research laboratory and published many scientific articles, At UNESCO, he worked on the culture of peace which led eventually to the International Year for the Culture of Peace. He is currently the Coordinator of the Culture of Peace News Network and author of several books on this subject.

Biography

David Adams went to Columbia University from 1957 to 1962, and then to Yale University 1962-1968 where he obtained his doctorate in psychology with a dissertation later published in Science Magazine as Cells Related to Fighting Behavior Recorded from Midbrain Central Gray Neuropil of Cat.[1] Then, as Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at Wesleyan University, he continued working on the brain mechanisms of aggression, and initiated studies which would underlie the concept of the Culture of Peace. Concerned about the representation of aggression research by the mass media as showing a biological basis for war,[2] he worked with the International Society for Research on Aggression[3] to initiate a process leading to the Seville Statement on Violence which showed scientifically that war is not biologically determined and, to quote Margaret Mead, "the same species that invented war is capable of inventing peace." From 1992 until 2001 he worked with UNESCO as counselor, professional and director on the culture of peace, leading to the International Year for the Culture of Peace for which he was chair of its Taskforce. Since retiring from UNESCO, he coordinated the midterm and final Reports from the Civil Society for the International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World and he has coordinated the Culture of Peace News Network and written books on the culture of war and the culture of peace. He lives with his partner Kiki Chauvin] in New Haven (USA) and Normandy (France).[4]

Scientific career

While at Wesleyan University, he worked with Harry Sinnamon and students to understand the brain mechanisms of aggressive behavior.[5][6]. A related work with Jonathan Mink and Rob Blumenschine was able to show a general rule that the central nervous system of vertebrates attains a size that uses 2-8% of the animal's general metabolism[7]. Among the few exceptions are the great apes and humans that use more and domesticated animals that have been selected to use less. Also at Wesleyan, along with colleague Alice Gold, it was shown that there is a rise in female-initiated sexual activity at the time of ovulation[8], which is suppressed by the use of oral contraception. At this time he also began working on studies that would lead to the Seville Statement on Violence and that would underlie the concept of the culture of peace: for example, the study Why There Are So Few Women Warriors.[9]

Culture of peace

The Culture of Peace[1] is a “set of values, attitudes, modes of behavior and ways of life that reject violence and prevent conflicts by tackling their root causes to solve problems through dialogue and negotiation among individuals groups and nations.”[2]

The Culture of Peace was first proposed by Father Felipe Mac Gregor for UNESCO at the 1989 Yamoussoukro Conference on Peace in the Minds of Men.[10] David Adams presented the Seville Statement on Violence at that Conference and it was thereby adopted by UNESCO. When Federico Mayor, a signatory of the Seville Statement, was elected as Director-General of UNESCO, David went to UNESCO in 1992 to publicize the Statement. While there, he worked with Director-General Mayor, Georges Kutukdjian[11] and Ambassador Ahmed Sayyad[12] to propose the Culture of Peace Programme.[13] In 1994, he left his University Post in order to establish the culture of peace program at UNESCO under Director-General Mayor and Director Leslie Atherley,[14] and along with Firmin Edouard Matoko. From 1993 until 1996 he worked on the establishment of national culture of peace programs, including those of El Salvador[15] and Mozambique.[16] In 1995 he prepared a book for UNESCO entitled UNESCO and a Culture of Peace: Promoting a Global Movement.[17] In 1998 he was named director of the unit for the International Year for the Culture of Peace(IYCP). Along with Enzo Fazzino and a small team, largely volunteer, and with the full assistance of Director-General Federico Mayor, they developed a publicity campaign for the Manifesto 2000.[18] The Manifesto had been composed by a team of Nobel Peace Laureates convened by the peace activist Pierre Marchand[19]. The Manifesto 2000 was signed by 75 million people,[20] one percent of planet earth, most of the signatures gathered by the more than a thousand organizations formally engaged by the IYCP, making it perhaps the largest such peace initiative in United Nations history. Another task of the IYCP team was the preparation of a draft declaration and programme of action on a culture of peace that had been requested by the United Nations General Assembly. The document was adopted by the UN General Assembly as Resolution A/53/243[21] after ten months of difficult negotiation that were managed by Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury of Bangladesh. At that time, the significance of the Programme of Action was discussed in a scholarly article authored by David Adams with Director-General Federico Mayor.[22] Also at that time, with the assistance of Zeynep Varoglu, Di Bretherton and Takehiko Ito, a news network was initiated that later became the Culture of Peace News Network. His personal memoire of the early history of the culture of peace[23] has been published on the Internet. Since retiring from UNESCO, David Adams has coordinated the further development of the Culture of Peace News Network as well as the Reports from the Civil Society for the International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World. He has published a number of books on the culture of peace and is invited to lecture on this subject in Europe, Africa and Latin America as well as the United States and Canada.

Publications

Adams has published over 60 articles in scientific journals, many of which are included in the internet book The Aggression Systems[24].

Books

  • The American Peace Movements[25], Advocate Press, 1985
  • The Seville Statement on Violence: Preparing the Ground for the Constructing of Peace[26]
  • Psychology for Peace Activists[27], Amazon 1995
  • UNESCO and a Culture of Peace: Promoting a Global Movement[28], UNESCO 1995
  • The History Of The Culture Of War[29], Amazon, 2009
  • I Have Seen the Promised Land: A Utopian Novella[30] Amazon, 2009
  • World Peace through the Town Hall[31], Amazon, 2015
  • Embrace the Fire: Plant the Seeds for a Culture of Peace[32] Amazon 2015
  • Cultura de Paz: Una utopía posible[33] (translation by Roberto Mercadillo), Herder Editorial 2015

Commissions and councils

  • City of New Haven Peace Commission, cited in article New Haven Peaces Out[34]
  • Board of the Ashland Culture of Peace Commissions cited in article Ashland at the Forefront of History[35]
  • International Cities of Peace Advisory Council[36]

References

  1. ^ "Cells Related to Fighting Behavior Recorded from Midbrain Central Gray Neuropil of Cat on JSTOR". JSTOR. February 23, 1968. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  2. ^ Josh Gabbatiss, Sapiens; Josh Gabbatiss, Sapiens (July 19, 2017). "Nasty, Brutish and Short: Are Humans DNA-Wired to Kill?". Scientific American. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  3. ^ "Purpose and Mission". ISRA. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  4. ^ "Aquoirelle" (in French). Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  5. ^ Adams, David B. "Brain Mechanisms". Culture of Peace. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  6. ^ "The Aggression Systems". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  7. ^ "Ratio of central nervous system to body metabolism in vertebrates: its constancy and functional basis". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  8. ^ "Rise in female-initated sexual activity at the time of ovulation". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  9. ^ http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/106939718301800302?journalCode=ccrb
  10. ^ http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0009/000926/092670eb.pdf
  11. ^ "Georges Kutukdjian". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  12. ^ "Ambassador Ahmed Sayyad". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  13. ^ "Culture of Peace Programme". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  14. ^ http://www.maltwood.uvic.ca/cam/activities/past_conferences/1999conf/CAM'99-LeslieAtherleyFinal.pdf
  15. ^ "The Unesco Culture of Peace Programme in El Salvador: An Initial Report - Parajon, Lourenco, and Adams". George Mason |. Retrieved January 15, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  16. ^ "Mozambique Programme-Cover". Culture of Peace. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  17. ^ "UNESCO and a Culture of Peace: Promoting a Global Movement" (PDF). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  18. ^ "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Manifesto 2000". UNESCO – Web Archive Access. December 14, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  19. ^ "Nobel Peace Laureates convened by the peace activist Pierre Marchand". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  20. ^ "The Manifesto 2000 was signed by 75 million people". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  21. ^ "Resolution A/53/243". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  22. ^ "Programme of Action". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  23. ^ "Early history of the culture of peace". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  24. ^ "The Aggression Systems". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  25. ^ "The American Peace Movements". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  26. ^ "The Seville Statement on Violence: preparing the ground for the construction of peace; 1991; 1992". unesdoc.unesco.org. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  27. ^ "Psychology for Peace Activists". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  28. ^ "UNESCO and a Culture of Peace: Promoting a Global Movement" (PDF). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  29. ^ "The History Of The Culture Of War". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  30. ^ "I Have Seen the Promised Land: A Utopian Novella". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  31. ^ "World Peace through the Town Hall". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  32. ^ "Embrace the Fire: Plant the Seeds for a Culture of Peace". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  33. ^ "Cultura de Paz: Una utopía posible". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  34. ^ "New Haven Peaces Out". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  35. ^ "Ashland at the Forefront of History". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  36. ^ "International Cities of Peace Advisory Council". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  1. ^ "Curriculum Vitae". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
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