SIWPS – Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics (1940-2021)

Summer Workshop on Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS) (July 2019)

12/06/22 Book panel with author Walter Russell Mead, "Arc of the Covenant."

9.29.22 DAS Jung Pak

9.15.22 Trump and the Intelligence Community

About SIWPS

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.”

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Political Scientist Stacie Goddard Named Director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

On July 1, 2026, political scientist Stacie Goddard, formerly the Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor of Political Science and Associate Provost of Wellesley in the World at Wellesley College, moved to SIPA/Columbia to become Director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies. […]

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Giving to SIWPS

The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies welcomes your support at any level. We invite alumni, colleagues, and friends to support the next generation of global leaders by making a donation.

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