Missouri Peace Studies Institute, Records, 1965-1979 (C3694)

6.8 linear feet

INTRODUCTION

Papers of a Columbia-based organization established in September 1968 to discover ways to implement peace, to promote and encourage peace research and education, and to work with other peace organizations. Functioning as a research facility, the institute gathered data on such topics as amnesty, the post-Vietnam era, the arms race, war toys, and war tax resistance. As an institution cooperating with other pacifist groups, it worked with organizations such as the War Resisters, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors. The Missouri Peace Studies Institute disbanded in December 1978.

DONOR INFORMATION

The Missouri Peace Studies Institute Records were donated to the University of Missouri by Suzy Morse on 21 December 1978 (Accession No. 4205).

ORGANIZATIONAL SKETCH

From 1968 to 1978 the Missouri Peace Studies Institute participated in and initiated many programs involving peace education and research. The group sponsored such speakers as anti-war activist Phillip Berrigan; journalist and discoverer of South Vietnam’s tiger cages, Don Luce; chairperson of the War Resisters League, Igal Roodenko; and singer and composer of anti-war and feminist songs, Holly Near. Along with the institute’s newsletter, PAX members published papers concerning the use of nuclear weapons and the effect of showing films on Hiroshima to students in Missouri.

The Vietnam War became a major issue for the organization. As the United States became more involved in Indochina, the group became more visible. On radio and television they locally sponsored the “Unsell the War” advertisements—a national campaign to end the war. The institute also participated in vigils.

After the Paris Peace Treaty was signed on 27 January 1973, the discussion of amnesty for draft evaders and deserters opened. When Gerald Ford announced his clemency plan on 16 September 1974 the issue was debated and the members of the institute voiced their opinions in local press, demonstrations, and petitions.

Even though pacifism was the organization’s major theme, the institute participated in several events outside this stance. One of these events was a local Planetary Citizenship Campaign.

In the early years the institute was a program of the Ecumenical Ministry Board, Columbia, Missouri, but eventually the organizations separated. Staff makeup included an executive director, associated director, research associate(s), and volunteers.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Missouri Peace Studies Institute records are divided into two sections: records of the group and subject files collected by the institute. In the first section materials are arranged by type, with correspondence arranged chronologically; in the second section topics are arranged alphabetically.

FOLDER LIST

f. 1-64Correspondence, 1965, 1968-1979. Correspondence concerning the philosophical and financial establishment of the institute; the requisition of printed materials from various peace organizations; and the historical happenings and strategies surrounding the protest of the Vietnam War and war in general.
f. 65-73Diaries, Minutes, Proceedings. Proposals, bylaws, and annual and monthly minutes of the institute. Section shows the organization's structure as well as lists its active members.
f. 65Original proposal of the institute, noting its relationship, as a cooperative program, to An Ecumenical Ministry in Higher Education, Columbia, Missouri.
f. 66Statements of purpose.
f. 69First meeting notes concerning the establishment of the institute.
f. 73Minutes of a special meeting of the institute and the Ecumenical Board questioning the institute's activities and tie to the center.
f. 74-81Printed Materials. Flyers, newspaper clippings, and local advertisements concerning the group and its quest for peace and amnesty after the Vietnam War.
f. 74-77Printed materials
f. 78-79PAX, the institute's monthly newsletter (1973, 1975-1977)
f. 80-81Questionnaire and information forms used for interviewing employees and volunteers.
f. 82-103Financial Documents. Receipts, bank statements, canceled checks, fundraising list, and other financial papers.
f. 82Budget, undated.
f. 84Financial Reports, 1969, 1971-1976.
f. 104-120Literary Productions. Papers written by the members of the institute, program proposals, speech, reports, and press releases on speakers, films, and other events presented by the organization.
f. 118Broadcast spots and script for local mass media.
f. 121Photographic Materials. Publicity shot of a member of the organization.
f. 122-125Lists of contacts from various organizations.
f. 126-495Subjects. Materials on diverse topics collected during the late 1970s, relating to the group's anti-war stance. Subjects are arranged alphabetically and are further organized by type of material: printed, financial, literary, legal, and maps, diagrams, graphs and lists. Most of the material is printed--newsletters, journals and magazine and newspaper clippings.
f. 126Action for World Community.
f. 127-132American Friends Service Committee.
f. 133-158Amnesty
f. 159-162Another Mother for Peace.
f. 163-170Anti-ballistic missile
f. 171-176Arms Control Association.
f. 177-183Arms race.
f. 184Asia
f. 185Association for the Education of the Young Child
f. 186-190B-1 Bomber
f. 191-192Bicentennial, 1976
f. 193-195Business Executives Move
f. 196-197Cambodia
f. 198Canadian Peace Research Institute
f. 199-209Center for Conflict Resolution
f. 210-215Center for Teaching About War and Peace.
f. 216-221Center for War/Peace Studies
f. 222Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
f. 223-224China
f. 225The Christophers
f. 226-231Civil Defense
f. 232Civil rights
f. 233-236Clergy and Laity Concerned
f. 237-240Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy
f. 241-244Coalition on National Priorities and Military Policy
f. 245-247Communism
f. 248Communiversity
f. 249-252Council for a Department of Peace, Inc
f. 253-257Counter-Recruitment
f. 258Cuba
f. 259Democratic Party
f. 260-269Department of State
f. 270-272Ecology
f. 273-278Fellowship of Reconciliation
f. 279-285Firearms Project Information
f. 286Holly Near
f. 287-288India
f. 289-300Indochina Peace Information
f. 301-303Institute for the Study of Nonviolence
f. 304In the Public's Interest
f. 305Irenology course
f. 306 Irish Civil War
f. 307 Korea
f. 308-310Land reform
f. 311 Laos
f. 312Methodist Federation for social Action
f. 313-324The Middle East
f. 325-329Militarism
f. 330-341Peace education
f. 342Peace poetry
f. 343-356Peace research
f. 357-369Peace studies
f. 370-379Peace Study and World Order Institutions
f. 380-383Planetary Citizenship Campaign
f. 384-393SANE
f. 394Senate Bill 1
f. 395Senators and representatives
f. 396-399Spain
f. 400-405St. Louis Institute for the Study of Peace and Justice
f. 406-412St. Louis Peace Research Laboratory
f. 413Syracuse Peace Council
f. 414Syria
f. 415Trident submarine
f. 416-418Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
f. 419-426United Nations.
f. 427United State Committee for Refugees
f. 428-432War Control Planners, Inc.
f. 433-437War Resisters, International
f. 438-451War Resisters League, National
f. 452-462War Resisters League, local groups
f. 463-465War Resisters League, Fellowship of Reconciliation
f. 466-471War tax resistance
f. 472War toys
f. 473-476Washington Watch
f. 477-483World Federalist
f. 484-487World Law Fund
f. 488-490World Peace Council
f. 491-492World Peace Tax Fund
f. 493-494World Without War Council
f. 495Miscellaneous printed materials

INDEX TERMS

These index terms are the subjects, people, places, etc. under which this collection is listed in all available indexes at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia. If you are interested in a specific index term, please contact the reference staff.

  • Action for World Community, Washington, D.C.
  • Ad Hoc Coalition for a New Foreign Policy, Washington, D.C.
  • American Civil Liberties Union, Columbia, Missouri
  • American Friends Service Committee, Chicago, Illinois
  • American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • American Friends Service Committee, St. Louis, Missouri
  • American Report, New York, New York
  • American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
  • American-Korean Friendship and Information Center
  • Americans for Amnesty
  • Americans for Middle East Understanding
  • Amex\Canada, Americans Exiled in Canada
  • Amnesty
  • Amnesty Action, Amnesty International
  • Amnesty for Vets Too, National Council for Universal and Unconditional Amnesty
  • Amnesty Information Service, National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors
  • Amnesty International
  • Amnesty International Newsletter, Amnesty International
  • Amnesty International, San Francisco, California
  • Amnesty News, Americans for Amnesty
  • Amnesty Report, Safe Return Amnesty Committee, Families of Resisters for Amnesty
  • Another Mother for Peace
  • Anti-Draft and Amnesty Clearing House
  • Antimissile missiles
  • Arms Control Association, Washington, D.C.
  • Arms Race
  • Asia
  • Association for the Education of the Young Child, Washington, D.C.
  • Association of World Colleges and Universities
  • B. E.M. News Notes, Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace and New National Priorities
  • B-1 (Bomber)
  • Bangladesh Relief Committee, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Berrigan, Philip Francis (1923- )
  • Black veterans
  • Bradford, Susan
  • Bristol, James
  • Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace and New National Priorities, Washington, D.C.
  • C. A. L. C. Newsletter, Clergy and Laity Concerned
  • C. A. L. C. Reports, Clergy and Laity Concerned
  • C. C. R. Newsletter, Center for Conflict Resolution
  • Cambodia
  • Campaign 100, Safe Return Amnesty Committee, Families of Resisters for Amnesty
  • Campaign 100, Safe Return Amnesty Committee, Families of Resisters for Amnesty
  • Canadian Peace Research Institute, Ontario, Canada
  • CCCO News Notes, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
  • CCCO News Notes, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
  • Center for Conflict Resolution, Madison, Wisconsin
  • Center for Peace Studies
  • Center for Rural Studies
  • Center for Teaching About War and Peace, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
  • Center for War/Peace Studies, New York, New York
  • Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Checkpoint, Citizens Committee for Global Safety, War Control Planners, Inc.
  • China
  • Civil defense
  • Civil rights
  • Clergy and Laity Concerned, New York, New York
  • Clergy and Laity Concerned, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy, Washington, D.C.
  • Coalition on National Priorities and Military Policy, Washington, D.C.
  • Coalition to Stop Funding the War, Washington, D.C.
  • Communism
  • Communiversity, Columbia, Missouri
  • Condon, Larry E.
  • Conscientious Objectors
  • Continental Walk for Disarmament and Peace, Columbia, Missouri
  • Council for a Department of Peace, Washington, D.C.
  • Counter Pentagon, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Counter-Recruitment
  • Cuba
  • Current Foreign Policy, Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs
  • Dai Dong Newsletter, International Fellowship of Reconciliation
  • Davis, Arlene
  • Democratic Party
  • Disarmament
  • Eagleton, Thomas Francis
  • Ecology
  • Ecumenical Ministry in Higher Education, Columbia, Missouri
  • Education for a Global Society, Center for War/Peace Studies
  • Families of Resisters for Amnesty, Safe Return Amnesty Committee
  • Fellowship of Reconciliation, Committee on Militarism in Education
  • Fellowship of Reconciliation, Kansas City, Missouri
  • Fellowship of Reconciliation, Nyack, New York
  • Fellowship: The Magazine of the Fellowship of Reconciliation
  • Fellowships in World Community, Action for World Community
  • Firearms Project Information
  • Foreign Affairs Newsletter, Institute for International Policy
  • Foreign Policy Outlines, Department of State
  • Friendshipment, People to People Aid to Vietnam, New York, NY
  • Global Perspective in Education, Center for War/Peace Studies
  • God and Caesar, Commission in Home Ministries of the General Conference Mennonite Church
  • Granberg, Donald
  • Hanson, Ada
  • Help Unsell the War, New York, NY
  • In the Public's Interest
  • India
  • Indian Opinion, Indians for Democracy
  • Indians for Democracy, Lansing, MI
  • Indochina Chronicle, Indochina Resource Center
  • Indochina Focal Point, Indochina Peace Campaign
  • Indochina Peace Information
  • Indochina Program Newsletter, American Friends Service Committee, Incorporated
  • Indochina Resource Center
  • Indochina Supplement, War Resisters International
  • Intercom, Center for War/Peace Studies of the New York Friends Group, Incorporated
  • Interfaith Council for Peace, Clergy and Laity Concerned
  • International Fellowship of Reconciliation
  • International Peace Studies Newsletter, Center for Peace Studies
  • Ireland, Civil War
  • Israel
  • Jewish Peace Fellowship
  • Kerr, William
  • Khmer Republic
  • Korea
  • Korea Focus, American-Korean Friendship and Information Center
  • Kurtz, Harriet B.
  • Kurtz, Howard
  • Lacefield, Patrick
  • Land tenure
  • Laos
  • Legislative Update, Ad Hoc Coalition for a New Foreign Policy
  • Lentz, Theodore F. (1888- )
  • Lessons of Vietnam, American Friends Service Committee
  • Local Motion, Fellowship of Reconciliation
  • Lotus, Jersey Shore War Resisters League, Ocean Township, NJ
  • Luce, Donald
  • Magner, John M., Jr.
  • Matchbox, Amnesty International
  • Mayer, Bob
  • McGinnis, James B.
  • Methodist Federation for Social Action, Ardsley, NY
  • Middle East
  • Militarism
  • Missouri Peace Studies Institute, Columbia, MO
  • Missouri Tax Reform Group Newsletter, Missouri Tax Reform Group
  • N.C.U.U.A. Amnesty Update, National Council for Universal & Unconditional Amnesty
  • National Association of Black Veterans, Incorporated
  • National Committee for an Effective Congress, New York, NY
  • National Council for Universal & Unconditional Amnesty, New York, NY
  • National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors
  • Near, Holly
  • Neo-Colonialism
  • Ngo Cong Duc
  • Nuclear submarines
  • One Family, Planetary Citizens
  • Organizer's Update, Ad Hoc Coalition for a New Foreign Policy
  • P.A.X., Council for a Department of Peace, Inc.
  • P.A.X., Missouri Peace Studies Institute, Fellowship of Reconcilliation, & War Registers League
  • Palestine
  • Peace Courier, World Peace Council
  • Peace Pilgrim
  • Peace, Poetry
  • Peace, Research
  • Peace, St. Louis Institute for the Study of Peace
  • Peace, Study & teaching
  • People & Land, Center for Rural Studies
  • Phoenix Project
  • Planetary Citizen, Planetary Citizen Registry
  • Planetary Citizens, New York, NY
  • Planetary Citizens, Ottawa, Canada
  • Planetary Citizenship Campaign, Columbia, MO
  • Prasad, Devi
  • Projectiles
  • Quaker Service Bulletin, American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Refugees
  • Resistance, Information Department, Palestine Liberation Organization
  • Rights, National Council for Universal & Unconditional Amnesty
  • Rondenko, Igal
  • Rosser, Jerry L.
  • Safe Return Amnesty Committee, New York, NY
  • Safe Return, Safe Return Amnesty Committee
  • Sane Action, SANE, Wahington, D.C.
  • SANE News, SANE, Washington, D.C.
  • SANE Report, SANE, Washington, D.C.
  • SANE World, SANE, Washington, D.C.
  • SANE, New York, NY
  • SANE, Philadelphia, PA
  • SANE, Washington, D.C.
  • Schuder, John C.
  • Setu, Peace Research Centre
  • Shalom, Jewish Peace Fellowship
  • Social Questions Bulletin, the Methodist Federation for Social Action
  • Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL
  • Soviet Union
  • Spain
  • St. Louis Institute for the Study of Peace & Justice, St. Louis, MO
  • St. Louis Peace Research Laboratory, St. Louis, MO
  • Stanford Biology Study Group
  • Stanley, Eric Robert
  • Stop the B-1 Bomber National Peace Conversion Campaign
  • Symington, Stuart (1901-1988)
  • Syracuse Peace Council, Syracuse, NY
  • Syria
  • The Christophers
  • The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Peace, National Walk
  • The Destruction of Indochina, Stanford Biology Study Group
  • The Eclipse, National Association of Black Veterans
  • The Interdependent, United Nations Association
  • The Link, Americans for Middle East Understanding
  • The Middle East Peace Organizer, San Francisco, CA
  • The Palestine Liberation Organization
  • The People Bicentennial Commission, Washington, D.C.
  • Thói-Báo Gá, the Vietnam Resource Center
  • Tinker, Leonard E.
  • Together, Youth for Federal Union
  • Transition, Institute for World Order
  • Trocme, Andre
  • Trocme, Magda
  • U.S. & Indochina, Indochina Resource Center
  • U.S. Committee for a Democratic Spain, New York, NY
  • U.S. Committee for Refugees, New York, NY
  • U.S. Department of State
  • United Nations
  • Vietnam Quarterly, Vietnam Resource Center
  • Vietnam Resource Center
  • Vietnam Veterans Against the War, New York, NY
  • Vietnam Veterans Against the War/Winter Soldier Organization, St. Louis, MO
  • Vietnam, Republic of
  • Vietnam, Republic of, Crop Destruction
  • Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
  • W.I.N., Win Publishing Empire, War Resisters League
  • W.R.I. Newsletter, War Registers International
  • W.R.L. News, War Registers League
  • W.R.L. South Central News, South-Central Regional Office, War Registers League, Austin, Texas
  • War Control Planners Inc., New York
  • War Register, Western Region Office, War Registers League, San Francisco, CA
  • War Resisters International, Belgium
  • War Resisters League
  • War Resisters League, Kansas City, MO
  • War Resisters League, Local Groups
  • War Resisters League, National
  • War Resisters League, Plains States Region, Kansas City, Kansas
  • War Resisters League/Fellowship of Reconciliation, Columbia, MO
  • War Tax Resistance
  • War Toys
  • War/Peace, Gordon and Breach Center for War/Peace Studies
  • Washington Watch, Washington, D.C.
  • Wickersham, William
  • Women Strike for Peace, Anti-Draft and Amnesty Clearing House
  • Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, St. Louis, MO
  • Women's International League for Peace & Freedom/Women's Strike for Peace, Washington, D.C.
  • Women's Strike for Peace
  • World Federalist Newsletter, World Federalist
  • World Federalist, Washington, D.C.
  • World Federalists News, World Federalist
  • World Law Fund Progress Report, World Law Fund
  • World Law Fund, New York, NY
  • World Peace Council, Helsinki, Finland
  • World Peace Tax Fund, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • World Refugee Report, U.S. Committee for Refugees
  • World Without War Council on the U.S., New York, NY
  • Youth for Federal Union
  • Zionism