ELISE BOULDING
October 14, 2014
Today, from Richard Quinney, I
received a copy of an obituary in The Norwegian American Weekly for Elise
Boulding that appears online at http://www.na-weekly.com/heritage/norwegian-american-women-of-distinction-elise-boulding/
. It is based on an interview with her
son Russ, who living in neighboring rural Brown County, Indiana, hosted
participants at the International Conference on Penal Abolition I organized in 1991
in Bloomington. My wife Jill and I know
Elise and Ken Boulding best as Quaker activists we met and heard at the
International Peace Research Association (IPRA), which they co-founded. One insight that I heard and later read by
Elise was the 5-generation window of history in which we live—that among the
living there are numbers of great grandparents of children who are old enough
to remember people of their great grandparents’ generation, and learn history
and past traditions from their elders before they die. Beyond that, for Jill and me both, our years
in IPRA were richly rewarding, both to gain a global understanding of peace
studies traditions and work, but to make lasting friendships and ties. Elise, I join Russ: you live in me, you are
remembered. Love and peace, hal
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