President Reagan & Nancy Reagan with singer Michael Jackson, 5/14/1984
(Reagan Library)
Anti-Vietnam War rally on the National Mall, Washington, DC, 1971
(Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos)
President Reagan & Nancy Reagan visiting Disney World in Orlando, FL, 5/27/1985
(Reagan Library)
American soldiers stand guard as Communist East Berlin puts up the wall, West Berlin, 1965 (L. Freed/Magnum Photos)
Blockade of a US military base for Pershing-Missiles, Frankfurt, 10/24/1983
(The Granger Collection, NY)
President Reagan & German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at the White House, 11/30/1984 (Reagan Library)
President Reagan at a rally in Endicott, NY, 9/12/1984
(Reagan Library)
President Reagan, Vice-President Bush & General Secretary Gorbachev in New York, 12/07/1988 (Reagan Library)
Civil Rights March on Washington, DC, 08/28/1963
(NARA)
Black Panther solidarity demonstration, Frankfurt/Main, 1969
(Frankfurter Stadtarchiv)
African American exchange students at a Black Panther solidarity rally at the University of Frankfurt, 1971 (B. Klemm)
Coporal W. A. Smith & Sergeant S. Osborne with the 654th Tank Destroyer Battalion at Herne, Germany, 1945 (NARA)
President Reagan & General Secretary Gorbachev signing the INF Treaty, 12/08/1987 (Reagan Library)
Coporal W. E. Thomas & Private 1st Class J. Jackson on Easter Morning, 03/10/1945 (NARA)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Ralph D. Abernathy at the Berlin Wall, 09/14/1964 (Landesarchiv Berlin)
A demonstrator offers a flower to a military police guard during an anti-Vietnam demonstration, 10/21/1967 (NARA)
Erich Honecker & Angela Davis meeting in East Berlin, 09/11/1972
(Bundesarchiv)
President Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 6/12/1987
(Reagan Library)
Blockade of a US military base for Pershing II missiles in Mutlangen, Germany
(H.G. Lambertz/Haus der Geschichte)
Protesters mingle with spectators attending the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS T. Roosevelt, 10/27/1984 (NARA)
Richard Nixon meeting with Elvis Presley, 12/21/1970
(NARA)

Peace

(Structures of Thought and Society)

New York University Abu Dhabi, Spring 2013/Fall 2013 (CORES-AD 27W)
Core Curriculum Course

Sunday/Monday, 2.35-3.50
DTC, N-109

Peace Writing Workshop
Wednesday, 2.35-3.50
DTC, N-112

“Non-Violence”, United Nations, New York

This course traces the development of philosophical, religious and secular theories of peace from antiquity to the present. It explores questions of peace and justice, nonviolence, the idea of a “just war,” as well as notions of peace in international relations, economics, and psychology, examining how those spurred peace activism and the ideology of pacifism.

To that end, students analyze literary, visual, and organizational representations of peace across national and cultural boundaries and the emergence of peace and conflict studies as an academic discipline.

Readings include works by Laotse, Thucydides, St. Francis of Assisi, Immanuel Kant, Henry David Thoreau, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., A.J. Muste, Johan Galtung, Alma Myrdal, and Petra Kelly, among others.