Elise Boulding, famed peace scholar, educator, and activist, has accepted an invitation to be the Website Patron of the Peaceful Societies website. Dr. Boulding, who has retired from most of her academic and peace activist roles, still maintains a strong interest in “imaging a world at peace” workshops from her retirement home in Massachusetts. Biographical information about Dr. Boulding appears on our “About This Website” page and in the review of a new biography of her that is posted in the news column today.