Welcome to the FiveCollege Program in
Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS)
PAWSS is a multidisciplinary educational endeavor of
the Five College Consortium of Amherst
College, Hampshire College, Mount
Holyoke College, Smith College,
and the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. It was established in 1983 to
foster student and faculty awareness of major international issues and
to promote undergraduate education in the peace and security field, broadly
defined. PAWSS
sponsors a wide variety of activities for students and faculty in the
Five College community and seeks to extend its outreach to scholars everywhere
through its website. (For more background, go to About
PAWSS)
The Director of PAWSS is Michael
Klare, the Five College
Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, based at Hampshire College
(mklare@hampshire.edu)
For students: Use this site to access information on
relevant courses at the Five Colleges and for information on undergraduate and graduate education in peace studies and related fields, as well as
internships and career paths.
For faculty: Use this site
to access information on course syllabi and seminars.
