Nigel Young

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Nigel Young (* 1938 ) is a British political scientist and peace activist . In 1995 he also became a US citizen.

Life

He studied at Oxford University (BA and MA) and was involved in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from 1958 . From 1968 to 1973 he was a lecturer in Political Science at the University of Birmingham (UK). He later continued his studies at the University of California in Berkeley (USA) and received his doctorate there in 1976. From 1973 to 1984 Young Fonder was a member of the Department of Peace Studies , University of Bradford (UK), Deputy Head of Department in 1979, Reader in Peace Studies. 1979–1988 he was director of the Interuniversity Center in Dubrovnik ( Yugoslavia ), 1982–1984 Senior Research Fellow at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo . From 1984 to 2003 Nigel Young went to Colgate University , New York State, as George R. and Myra T. Cooley Research Professor of Peace Studies, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Peace Studies Program . From 1988–2002 he was Director of the Colgate Peace Studies abroad program in Europe . In 2004 he retired there and retained the title of Research Professor.

He now lives in the northern county of Yorkshire . He is married to the ethnologist Antonia Young and has four children.

Visiting professorships and honors

Nigel Young held numerous visiting professorships: University of California ( San Diego ), Earlham College , University of Münster (FRG), University of Oslo (Norway), often. European Peace University Burgschlaining (Austria), as part of the Austrian Peace Research Institute Council , he carried out six semester-long study trips through Europe. In 1982 he taught as a Distinguished Professor at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg (FRG), and was a founding member of the Peace Studies Association in 1986 . In 2011 Nigel Young won the Science Prize of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for editing the four-volume work The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace .

Research interests

Political sociology, comparative studies of peace and the state, the role of historical memory, of art, literature, war films, peace films for peace memory and peace culture, the history of social and political ideas and movements, society and resistance.

Fonts

  • An infantile disorder? The crisis and decline of the new left. 1977, ISBN 0-7100-8467-6 .
  • Peace education between peace research and peace movement. 1983. (DGFK booklets, volume 17.)
  • with Richard Taylor (ed.): Campaigns for peace. British peace movements. 1987, ISBN 0719018927 .
  • with Antonia Young and John Hodgson: Albania 2nd edition. 1997, ISBN 1851092609 . (World bibliographical series, Volume 94.)
  • with Peter Brock : Pacifism in the twentieth century. 1999, ISBN 0-8156-8125-9 .
  • (Ed.): The Oxford international encyclopedia of peace. 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-533468-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ as stated in the catalogs of the German National Library, the British Library and the Library of Congress
  2. ↑ http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2011-scholarship_winner.htm
personal data
SURNAME Young, Nigel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American political scientist and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1938