The Institute was founded as The Institute of War and Peace Studies (IWPS) in 1951, under the sponsorship of Dwight D. Eisenhower, during his tenure as president of Columbia University, in an effort to promote an understanding of “the disastrous consequences of war upon man’s spiritual, intellectual, and material progress.”
Learn morePolitical Scientist Stacie Goddard, the Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor of Political Science and Associate Provost of Wellesley in the World at Wellesley College, has been named the next Director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. Effective July 1, 2026, Goddard will move to Columbia/SIPA as the Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of […]
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