However, he spoke for exactly 10 minutes about Academics for Peace, a group of university teachers who signed a declaration demanding a peaceful solution to the Kurdish conflict.
For every child to receive a high quality and well-rounded education, we must implement "Learning without Borders", a programme where children would learn about academics, ethics, peace and life-skills.
Informed by the issues raised in this meeting as well as a review of the academic literature on peace, the study authors developed a working definition of "peace" (" A feeling of calm and/or freedom from struggles within self and others in a non-violent environment where hope outweighs resignation") and identified concepts or themes associated with the experience of peace.
They've arrested scores of domestic dissenters and blasted academics pushing for peace with the Kurds.
Elise Boulding, a sociologist, pacifist feminist and scholar who wrote extensively about conflict resolution in both personal and global relations and who helped establish the academic field known as peace studies, died June 24 in Needham, Mass.
In February 2015, Jolie and Hague launched the UK's first academic Centre on Women, Peace and Security, based at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Today we witness the emergence of new academic disciplines, such as Peace through Health [ 19, 20] where physicians are developing interventions by which they could prevent and heal the consequences of war.
In a decision linking the 2005 Nobel prize for economics with the founder's commitment to peace, two academics have been chosen as the winners for their work on game theory which examined conflict between nations, individuals and companies.
But this year the summertime academic lull will not mean peace and quiet.
Menachem Klein, a political scientist and veteran of Israeli-Palestinian peace initiatives, says academic boycotts are not always wrong but Israel's misdeeds had not merited such a harsh response.
