Elise Biorn-Hansen Boulding, PhD Born 1920 Inducted 1996 Elise Boulding, a native Norwegian, moved to the United States at the age of three. By 20, she was on a mission to “become a peacemaker.” In 1990 she was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee. While at the University of Michigan, she and husband Kenneth Boulding founded the International Peace Research Association. After their move to Boulder, she earned both master’s and doctorate degrees in sociology while raising five children. Joining the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Boulding was one of 12 women chosen to meet with Russian women in 1962 at the height of the Cold War. Through her academic work and the Women’s Strike for Peace, one of the first major anti-war movements, she helped shape the nation’s concept of peace studies, women’s studies, and future studies. She believes that, in order to pioneer different and better ways of life, women’s knowledge and perspectives must be brought to bear on global problems such as population control, politics, and war.
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