Quest for Peace

Is peace possible in the nuclear age? Social ecology professor John Whiteley put the intriguing question to a wide range of renowned individuals. The result: Quest for Peace, a compilation of interviews conducted from 1983 to 1989.

Join the Quest

UCi magazine wants your views on prospects for peace. Selected comments will be posted online. E-mail ucifeedback@uci.edu or mail to UCi magazine, c/o University Communications, 4650 Berkeley Place, Irvine, CA 92697-5615.

UCI Libraries’ Quest for Peace Web site features some 200 video interviews originally broadcast on cable TV stations, downloadable transcripts and biographies of participants. The Web project is a joint effort of UCI Libraries, John Whiteley, the Teaching, Learning & Technology Center and Network & Academic Computing Services.

Topical highlights from the interviews:

John Whiteley discusses Quest for Peace		The greatest moral challenge?		Does knowledge equal empowerment?
Problem or solution?		Do societies drift toward war?		Antithetical to peace?
Weapon of war or peace?		Do they exist?		Can people change?

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