{"id":32749,"date":"2023-11-05T03:18:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T02:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=32749"},"modified":"2024-02-20T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T17:33:09","slug":"in-memoriam-betty-reardon-1929-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=32749","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: Betty Reardon (1929-2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An article from the Global Campaign for Peace Education<\/a><\/p>\n

Betty A. Reardon, internationally celebrated as a founder of the field of peace education and feminist peace scholar, passed away on November 3, 2023. She was the co-founder of the Global Campaign for Peace Education.<\/p>\n

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The child of Julia Florence Reardon (Burke) and Michael Augustus Reardon, she was born on June 12, 1929 and brought up in Rye, New York where she attended Rye Grammar School and then Rye High School. She spent her adult life as a resident of New York City. \u00a0She held a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University, a master\u2019s degree in history from New York University, and a B.A. in history from Wheaton College, Norton, MA. \u00a0She is survived by nieces No\u00ebl Menadier, Christie Menadier, Coley Menadier-Fisher and husband Rick Fisher, great nephew Adam Fisher and wife Whitney Timmons, great nephew Grayson Fisher, nephew Mark Menadier and great nephew Burke Menadier and great niece Kalani Menadier, niece Dani Menadier Thorn and great nieces Sabrina Thorn and Savannah Thorn.<\/p>\n

She began her teaching career at Rye Country Day School, and then in 1963 she began her work in peace education as Director of the Schools Program with the Institute of World Order. What intrigued and drove her was an interest in war, not as an isolated eruption in human affairs, but as a social system justified by particular ways of thinking. She had a hunch that not only the structures of society, but the structures of consciousness as well, could, and should be, transformed through a comprehensive education for and about peace. Betty Reardon\u2019s life-long endeavor has been informed and shaped by this perspective and these formative experiences.<\/p>\n

She held prominent roles in the establishment and work of key institutions that define the field of peace studies and peace education, including the founder and long-time director of the Peace Education Center and Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, the founder and director of the International Institute on Peace Education, the General Coordinator, of the Feminist Scholar Activist Network on Demilitarization, Coordinator International Network of Peace Education Centers, the founding Academic Coordinator of the Hague Appeal for Peace Global Campaign for Peace Education, \u00a0the Director of the Peacemaking in Education Program, United Ministries in Education, Executive Secretary of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction, the School Program Director, Institute for World Order, New York, NY, the Associate Director of Leadership and World Society (LAWS), and a founder of the Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Reardon also held a number of prestigious visiting professorships, including the Savage Chair, Distinguished Visiting professor of International Relations and Peace, University of Oregon, the A. Lindsay O\u2019Connor Chair in American Institutions, Colgate University, Visiting Professor of Peace, Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Visiting Professor, Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba, Japan, Visiting Professor, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, Visiting Professor, Department of International Relations, Ritsumeikan Unviersity, Kyoto, Japan.<\/p>\n

In addition, Dr. Reardon was an accomplished scholar of peace studies and peace education.\u00a0 She published numerous articles, books, book chapters, and reports, and has presented scholarly papers at numerous scholarly meetings. Her essential works include:<\/p>\n

\u00b0 Comprehensive Peace Education\u00a0(Teachers College Press, 1988);
\n\u00b0 Educating for Global Responsibility\u00a0(Teachers College Press, 1988);
\n\u00b0 Women and Peace: Feminist Visions of Global Security\u00a0(State University of New York Press, 1993);
\n\u00b0 Educating for Human Dignity\u00a0(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994);
\n\u00b0 Sexism and the War System\u00a0(Syracuse University Press, 1996);
\n\u00b0 Tolerance: The Threshold of Peace\u00a0(UNESCO,1998);
\n\u00b0 Passport to Dignity: The Human Rights of Women\u00a0(PDHRE, 2001); and
\nEducation for a Culture of Peace in a Gender Perspective\u00a0(UNESCO, 2001).
\n\u00b0 The Gender Imperative: Human Security vs. State Security. (Routledge, 2010).
\nBetty A. Reardon: A Pioneer in Education for Peace and Human Rights. (Springer Press, 2015)
\n\u00b0 Betty A. Reardon: Key Texts in Gender and Peace. (Springer Press, 2015)<\/p>\n

Her many prestigious awards include:
\n\u00b0 the Pomerance Award for contributions to disarmament efforts within the UN system,
\n\u00b0 Nomination and honorable mention for UNESCO Peace Education Prize by ICAE, IPRA, WCCI,
\n\u00b0 the American Association of University Women (AAUW) New York State Peace Award,
\n\u00b0 Golden Balloon Award for Peace Education from World Children\u2019s Association (presented at the United Nations),
\n\u00b0 the 1986 Book of the Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing for\u00a0Sexism and the War System,
\n\u00b0 the 1994 Peace Studies Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association,
\n\u00b0 the 2000 Jane Adams Peace Activist Award,
\n\u00b0 Distinguished Alumna Award from Teachers College Columbia University, 2004,
\n\u00b0 Volvo Heroes nomination 2006,
\n\u00b0 Nomination for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize (among 1000 women nominated as a group).
\n\u00b0 Nomination for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize by the International Peace Bureau (Norway).
\n\u00b0 The 2010 Sean McBride Peace (International Peace Bureau).
\n\u00b0 The 2013 El-Hibri Peace Education Prize (The El-Hibri Foundation)<\/p>\n

World War II, and then later, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement, and the Feminist movement were formative in the development of her worldview. In the face of the horrors of world war, she believed, as early as the fifth grade, that there must be an alternative to war, and in the face of racism and sexism she pondered early on the limits and possibilities of justice.\u00a0 In these formative experiences were the seeds of her fundamental approach to peace, as both the elimination of violence\u00a0and\u00a0the establishment of justice.\u00a0 She chose to be a teacher, believing that education was the key to a peaceful and just world.
\nBetty Reardon was a tireless student, exponent, and advocate of peace, justice, and peace education. She mentored and inspired generations of educators, scholars, and activists through her teaching and scholarship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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