The Study of War
The Study of War Project was launched by TISS in January 1994. This multi-year, multi-disciplinary project addressed a fundamental challenge to security: war. To build a sustainable, secure world requires basic knowledge of the nature, dynamics, and impact of warfare on individuals, groups, nation-states, societies, the earth, and the human species. A similar comprehensive study of war was undertaken by Quincy Wright at the University of Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s. The TISS Study of War Project revisited these issues in light of new scholarly insights.
Directed by Richard H. Kohn and Alex Roland, this project started with a series of conferences in which scholars discussed war from the perspective of their chosen discipline. This phase ended in 1997 with a summary conference held near Chicago. During the second phase, scholars were commissioned to contribute towards a collection of research papers and the Proceedings of the Cantigny Conference were edited.
