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Posted on Feb 11, 2010 by Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

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Message*	Lawrence Wittner Two Chances to Hear Him <a href="http://utahactivistsnetwork.org/actions/?id=4038">http://utahactivistsnetwork.org/actions/?id=4038</a> <strong>Thursday, March 11, 10 a.m.</strong><br /> Utah Valley University<br /> <br /> <strong>Friday, March 12 at 10:45 a.m. </strong><br /> Hinckley Institute at the University of Utah<br /> <br /> <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_S._Wittner" target="_blank">Lawrence Wittner</a></strong> is the author of seven books, the editor or co-editor of another four, and the author of about 200 articles and book reviews. From 1984 to 1987, he edited Peace & Change, a journal of peace research. His article "Peace Movements and Foreign Policy" won the Charles DeBenedetti award of the Conference on Peace Research in History in 1989, and his <em>One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953</em> received the Warren Kuehl Book Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1995. In addition, he received the New York State/United University Professions Excellence Award for scholarship, teaching, and service in 1990. His most recent book is <strong><em>Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement</em></strong>.<br /> <br /> A former president of the Council on Peace Research in History (now the Peace History Society), an affiliate of the American Historical Association, Wittner also chaired the Peace History Commission of the International Peace Research Association. He is currently a national board member of Peace Action, the largest peace organization in the United States.
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Date(s): Thu, Mar 11th, 2010 thru Fri, Mar 12th, 2010

Thursday, March 11, 10 a.m.
Utah Valley University

Friday, March 12 at 10:45 a.m.
Hinckley Institute at the University of Utah

Lawrence Wittner is the author of seven books, the editor or co-editor of another four, and the author of about 200 articles and book reviews. From 1984 to 1987, he edited Peace & Change, a journal of peace research. His article "Peace Movements and Foreign Policy" won the Charles DeBenedetti award of the Conference on Peace Research in History in 1989, and his One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953 received the Warren Kuehl Book Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1995. In addition, he received the New York State/United University Professions Excellence Award for scholarship, teaching, and service in 1990. His most recent book is Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement.

A former president of the Council on Peace Research in History (now the Peace History Society), an affiliate of the American Historical Association, Wittner also chaired the Peace History Commission of the International Peace Research Association. He is currently a national board member of Peace Action, the largest peace organization in the United States.

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