McMaster University Centre for Peace Studies
McMaster University Centre for Peace Studies fonds. -- 1984-2007. – 12 boxes of moving images
and sound recordings. – 187 audio reels. – 195 audio cassettes.
– 92 VHS cassettes. – 7 compact discs. – 3 U-Matic cassettes.
– 2 Beta cassettes. – 1 mini data cartridge tape.
The fonds consists of recordings of prominent speakers and theorists
in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies. Many, but not all, of the
recordings were done at McMaster. The topics covered are wide-ranging,
and there is enormous diversity within each series. A small selection
of some of the more well-represented topics includes post-secondary
education in El Salvador, the arms trade, violence in Sri Lanka, the
Middle East, Central America, women and violence, nuclear disarmament,
trade unionism in South Africa, and human rights in Guatemala. Some
of the more prominent speakers featured in the fonds include Noam Chomsky,
Chief Ovide Mercredi, Ursula Franklin, Mubarak Awad, Helen Caldicott,
and Gene Sharp.
There are five distinct series in the fonds as well as a large quantity
of unidentified content. The first and largest series is the Peace &
Conflict Radio Project which was conducted between July 1987 and May
1988. The second largest is the Nonviolence in Violent Contexts series,
which occurred in June 1989. The third series is the Science for Peace
series, which ran concurrently with the Peace & Conflict Radio Project
(roughly from June 1987 to June 1988). The fourth series is the Crimes
of the Official Terror Network series, which was conducted in June 1988.
The fifth and smallest series is the Bertrand Russell Peace Lecture
series, beginning in March 1989. The arrangement of these series in
the finding aid is by physical format rather than by content description.
Dates in the finding aid are done as yy/mm/dd.
Title based on content of fonds.
There has been one accrual (85-2010) acquired in June of 2010 from Centre
for Peace Studies.
Finding aid is available in Archives and Research Collections. An electronic
version will be available in 2012.
There are no access restrictions.
No further accruals are expected.
