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Kenneth Brown (academic)

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Kenneth Lee Brown (June 15, 1933 – November 3, 2010) was an American academic credited with pioneering and heading the first undergraduate peace studies program in the United States.^[1] Brown chaired the Peace Studies Institute and Program in Conflict Resolution at Manchester College in Indiana from 1980 until 2005.^[1] Brown received the 2005 lifetime Achievement Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association*.^[2] The peace studies major, the first of its field in the United States, had originally been established in 1948.^[1] Brown was also an ordained minister within the Church of the Brethren.^[1]

Brown retired in 2006, but continued to teach as a professor emeritus.^[1] A resident of North Manchester, Indiana, Brown died of vasculitis on November 3, 2010, at the age of 77. He was survived by his wife, Viona, and three children.^[1]

Brown's sermons, speeches, papers, pamphlets, letters, reflections, and satirical pieces have been made available to the public in the PALNI Digital Library Collections

http://palni.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15705coll26

Documents from 1956, when Brown was a student at Bethany Theological Seminary to 2008, when he spoke at a reception celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of peace studies at Manchester College (now: Manchester University) are included in the collection.

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1. ^¹²³⁴⁵{{cite news|first=Holly |last=Abrams |title=Peace studies pioneer dies at 77|url=http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20101104/LOCAL/311049973/1002/LOCAL|work=The Journal Gazette |publisher=|date=2010-11-04 |accessdate=2010-11-13}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.manchester.edu/news/KenBrownDies.htm|title=Peace studies professor and activist Ken Brown of Manchester faculty dies|publisher=Manchester.edu|date=2010-11-14|accessdate=2013-11-08}}

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