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Published on Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:00 | | 
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More than 400 universities and colleges worldwide now offer
undergraduate or graduate degrees in peace studies, as well as individual courses and
certificates. Dana Macucci investigates
Los Alamos, New Mexico:The Bradbury Science Museum in this drab high-desert town studded with old army barracks houses life-size replicas of Little Boy and Fat Man, chilling reminders of the human capacity for unspeakable violence. The cutely named atomic bombs, which were invented here, were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945.
Less than 100 miles away, or 160 kilometers, in Montezuma, New Mexico, lies United World College of the American West (UWC-USA), a two-year pre-university residential school offering an international baccalaureate diploma, with a special emphasis on peace studies and conflict resolution.