Children in peace plan
An exchange of Russian and American children, could be one way of avoiding a nuclear holocaust,.according to professor of economics at the University of Colorado, Dr Kenneth E. Boulding, now visiting Christchurch. Dr Boulding. here as a guest speaker of the Society of Friends, proposed a mutual exchange of up to 25,000 children up to college age, as a deterrent to armed conflict. Such an exchange would make it more difficult for the leadership of both countries to make any decision to launch a nuclear war, he said. ..
“Unless peaceful solutions are sought in dealing with the world’s trouble spots, a nuclear conflict is inevitable,” Dr Boulding predicted. He has helped to establish many courses throughout North America, known as Peace Research Centres, studying conflict areas of the world and offering peaceful solutions. “We are doomed if we do not get our message across,” he said. “The world is like an armed kindergarten. We are in the arms race and the arms race leads to war.” There are now 80 Peace Research Centres in America,
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