{"id":9589,"date":"2016-04-01T17:34:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T17:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/?p=9589"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:38:34","slug":"catalytic-diplomacy-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2016\/04\/01\/catalytic-diplomacy-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalytic Diplomacy for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Catalytic Diplomacy for Peace:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lessons Learned from the Half Century of Experience of Two Swarthmore Graduates<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeremy J. Stone \u201857<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Swarthmore College, Honorary Doctor of Laws for peace activities &#8217;85 and B.J. Stone, &#8217;57<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>April 19, 2016<\/strong>, Dr. Jeremy Stone spoke to approximately 150 students in\u00a0Science Center Room 101\u00a0at\u00a0Swarthmore College*<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/175237736?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Creative ideas, pursued with personal diplomacy through political structures, can make a real difference to peace and conflict. Stone will reference successes and failures. These include inventing five tabled Washington-Moscow Summit arms control proposals. They also include: catalytic undertakings in initiating scientific exchange with China, Vietnam and Iran; efforts to end the Cambodian civil war; stabilizing the conflict between Mainland China and Taiwan; defending human rights in Russia and Constitutional rights in America; and a series of failures to reverse current American doctrine on first use of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9631\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/DSC03214_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Stone in Science Center 101\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/DSC03214_sm.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/DSC03214_sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/DSC03214_sm-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Jeremy J. Stone<\/strong> graduated from Swarthmore College in 1957 before going on to complete a Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford University. After holding positions at the Hudson Institute,\u00a0\u00a0the Harvard Center for International Affairs (CFIA), and Pomona College, he became the CEO of the <a href=\"http:\/\/fas.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federation of American Scientists (FAS)<\/a>&#8211;founded in 1945 as the Federation of Atomic Scientists (FAS)&#8211;\u00a0which focused on policy related to\u00a0the nuclear arms race, human rights, ethnic violence and civil conflict, small arms, controlling biological and chemical weapons, energy conservation, global warming, and other related subjects.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9632\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/DSC03229_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Stone\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/DSC03229_sm.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/DSC03229_sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/DSC03229_sm-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Through what Stone calls &#8220;catalytic diplomacy&#8221; and with the assistance of his wife, B.J. Stone &#8217;57, they\u00a0shaped a range of negotiations over nuclear weapons during the Cold War, played a key role in renewing scientific exchange with U.S. and China (1972) and U.S. and Iran (1999), and worked to contain super-Maoist movements in North Korea, Cambodia and Peru, among other topics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-Honorary-Degree.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9614\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9614\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-Honorary-Degree.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Jeremy Stone\" width=\"1531\" height=\"985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-Honorary-Degree.jpg 1531w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-Honorary-Degree-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-Honorary-Degree-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-Honorary-Degree-1024x659.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1531px) 100vw, 1531px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swarthmore College awarded Dr. Stone an\u00a0Honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1985 for his career pursuing peace as a public interest activist. He is the author of two books on arms control:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/tripod.brynmawr.edu\/find\/Record\/.b1316311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Containing the Arms Race: Some Specific Proposals<\/a><\/em> (MIT Press, 1966) and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/tripod.brynmawr.edu\/find\/Record\/.b1316313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Strategic Persuasion: Arms Limitations\u00a0Through Dialogue<\/a><\/em> (Columbia University Press, 1967) as well as two memoirs:\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Every-Man-Should-Try-Adventures\/dp\/1891620142\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1459528439&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=every+man+should+try\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Every Man Should Try: Adventures of a Public Interest Activist<\/a><\/em> (Public Affairs Press, 1999) and\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/catalytic-diplomacy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catalytic Diplomacy: Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9619\" style=\"width: 1441px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-testimony-pg223book.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9619\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9619 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-testimony-pg223book.jpg\" alt=\"Stone testimony\" width=\"1441\" height=\"1182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-testimony-pg223book.jpg 1441w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-testimony-pg223book-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-testimony-pg223book-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-testimony-pg223book-1024x840.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1441px) 100vw, 1441px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jeremy Stone &#8217;57 lecturing, in June, 1979, to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the arms limitation treaty called SALT II. The Senators from left to right are: Charles Percy, Jacob Javits, Frank Church, George McGovern, and Joseph Biden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9620\" style=\"width: 1790px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-Negot-Zhou-En-Lai.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9620\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9620 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-Negot-Zhou-En-Lai-e1459993379592.jpg\" alt=\"Stone and Zhou En-lai\" width=\"1790\" height=\"1193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-Negot-Zhou-En-Lai-e1459993379592.jpg 1790w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-Negot-Zhou-En-Lai-e1459993379592-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-Negot-Zhou-En-Lai-e1459993379592-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Stone-Negot-Zhou-En-Lai-e1459993379592-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1790px) 100vw, 1790px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jeremy Stone &#8217;57 and his wife, B.J. Stone &#8217;57, in 1972, negotiating, after dinner, with Prime Minister Zhou En-lai of the People&#8217;s Republic of China in 1972&#8211;a month after relations with Communist China were opened by President Nixon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sponsored by the Program in Peace and Conflict Studies and Catalytic Diplomacy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B6bMz5n5LDmydUU3aTlod2JGR2M\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download a flyer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(*The video above is a re-recording of the lecture Dr. Stone delivered at Swarthmore College.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalytic Diplomacy for Peace:\u00a0Lessons Learned from the Half Century of Experience of Two Swarthmore Graduates Jeremy J. Stone \u201857 Swarthmore College, Honorary Doctor of Laws for peace activities &#8217;85 and B.J. Stone, &#8217;57 On April 19, 2016, Dr. Jeremy Stone spoke to approximately 150 students in\u00a0Science Center Room 101\u00a0at\u00a0Swarthmore College* Creative ideas, pursued with personal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2016\/04\/01\/catalytic-diplomacy-for-peace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catalytic Diplomacy for Peace<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[364,361,103,212,362,363,365,270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9589"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175424802,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589\/revisions\/175424802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}