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Elise and Kenneth had been married for more than 50 years when he died in 1993. His death left a void in Elise’s life that stayed with her for the next 17 years (3 in Boulder, 4 in Wayland, MA, and 10 at North Hill retirement community in Needham, MA). Yet, ever resilient, six months after his death, Elise began recording in her journals about peacemaking and other activities. The idea of nongovernmental Peace Teams and a multi-level understanding of citizenship are two major contributions that Elise made during this time period. More than 100 publications also came out of this period of her life, including Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History in 2000. With increasing physical limitations the outside world came increasingly to her, in the form of a regular stream of visitors, old friends and new, to her one-room apartment at North Hill. Even when her Alzheimer’s progressed to the stage where she had to move to the adjacent Skilled Nursing Facility, the residents benefited from programs honoring Elise.
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Elise seems to be referring to the South Centre in Geneva, Switzerland.
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As far as I can tell Elise did not write more about this, at least in a form that was published.
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Stensenaas is a rural conference center on the Baltic.
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Paper on women’s movements and social change presented at International Sociological Society (ISA) meetings in Germany— see PAHSEP 08, Chap. 4. A later journal entry indicates that it was well received.
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See PAHSEP 08, Chap. 2.
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Revisions to Children’s Rights and the Wheel of Life were never completed. There is a box in Elise’s archives at the University of Colorado, Boulder with the materials she would have used.
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See PAHSEP 08, Chap. 10.
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The newsletter was sent through the internet, something Elise never connected to, though she used a word processor during her last years in Boulder and early years in the Boston area.
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S.R. Kellert and E.O. Wilson, (Eds.), 1993: The Biophilia Hypothesis (Island Press).
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Elise was one of 12 Peace Councilors, representing Quakers, on the International Committee for the Peace Council, sometimes referred to as the Interfaith World Peace Council.
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Elise Boulding and Randall Forsberg, 1998: Abolishing War: Dialogue with Peace Scholars Elise Boulding and Randall Forsberg (Cambridge, MA: Boston Research Center for the 21st Century).
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Saul Mendlowitz, Dag Hammarskjöld Professor, Rutgers Law School, Newark, New Jersey was a long-time friend and colleague of Elise’s.
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Entry reflects on an imaging a peaceful world workshop at Antioch College, Yellows Springs, OH.
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Reflections upon reading David Abram, 1997: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Vintage).
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See PAHSEP 07, Chap. 13 for the outcome.
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See also, entry for this date in Chap. 10.
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Elise tutored at Martin Luther King Elementary School.
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This is the first mention of the MAPWIL project which was published as: Elise Boulding, Cynthia Cohen, Gail Jacobsen, Lyn Haas, Mary Lee Morrison and Kathy Grave, 2008: Making Peace Where I Live (MAPWIL): A Project Designed for Young People to Meet Peacemakers and Peacebuilders in Their Own Community: Teacher Resource Guide (Chester, VT: Pamoja). The original version was published in 2001; this edition revised by Kathy Grave and Lyn Haas.
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Eastern Mennonite University, Conflict Transformation Program—now Center of Justice and Peacebuilding.
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See: Elise Boulding and Jan Oberg, 1995: The Case for Civilian Peace-Keepers. Breakthrough News, Winter, p. 6. See, also, Dave Hartsough’s tribute in PAHSEP 06, Sect. 3.1.
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A Quaker “gathered” meeting is one where the spoken ministry is especially deep and connected. The first one referred to in the entry was at Amesbury Friends Meeting in conjunction with watching a BBC film on children starving in Iraq.
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Research that grew out of these conversations was published in: Joe de Rivera, 2004: “Assessing the Basis for a Culture of Peace in Contemporary Societies” Journal of Peace Research, 41:531–548. Also in: Joseph de Rivera, 2009: “Assessing the Peacefulness of Cultures”, In: J. de Rivera (Ed.), Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace (New York: Springer): 89–103.
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Published with the title: Elise Boulding, 2002: “Practice Love and Sustain Hope”, In: John Paul Lederach and Janice Moomaw Jenner (Eds.), A Handbook of International Peacebuilding: Into the Eye of the Storm (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass): 299–304.
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Can be obtained through Columbia Center for Oral History: http://oralhistoryportal.cul.columbia.edu/document.php?id=ldpd_9052883.
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See PAHSEP 07, Chap. 9.
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See PAHSEP 06, Chap. 8.
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This is Elise’s first mentioned of her multi-level concept of citizenship, a major focus during the last years of her life. See also January 6, 2002 entry, this chapter, and PAHSEP 07, Chap. 8 for a published version.
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Elise faithfully attended the weekly peace vigil on Needham Commons for as long as she was able to physically attend. When my visits coincided with the vigil I would take her. I can remember one vigil on a bitterly cold day when I felt chilled to the bones, yet she resolutely stood through the entire vigil.
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Published as Elise Boulding and Daisaku Ikeda, 2010: Into Full Flower: Making Peace Cultures Happen (Cambridge, MA: Dialogue Path Press).
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S.N. Eisenstadt, (Ed.), 1986: Axial Civilizations (SUNY Press).
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Boulding, J.R. (2017). Ongoing Activism and Scholarship, 1993–2010. In: Boulding, J. (eds) Elise Boulding: Autobiographical Writings and Selections from Unpublished Journals and Letters. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46538-8_9
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