Terp, Holger: Danish Peace History - Det danske Fredsakademi

1983 175 , the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute in 1984 (now a part of the Danish
Foreign Policy Institute) and the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future
Research in 1985 of Jan Øberg in Lund, Sweden.
The Easter demonstrations against nuclear weapons were followed by demonstrations
against the Vietnam War. In January 1967 the Danish Bertrand Russell Committee
was created to organize the second session of the International War Crimes Tribunal,
which was forbidden to hold its session in Paris and Stockholm. Under much publicity
and debate the second session was held at Roskilde, late November 1967. The report of
the tribunal was published in 50 copies in English and in French each and 100 copies
in Danish 176 .
The Danish police attacked a huge peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War
at the American embassy in Copenhagen on April 27 th . 1968 177 . Afterwards the Danish
anti-Vietnam war groups split over discussions about imperialism 178 , but out of the
Vietnam war movement grew the book shop Demos and its co-operation with the
Danish chapter of the WRI on the analysing and mapping of the Danish arms industry
and military research establishment 179 . A work still undertaken by the Danish chapter
of WRI.
The revolt of the youth culminating with the partly occupation of the University of
Copenhagen in 1968 began in the camps of the conscientious objectors in the 1950s.
At the same time the numbers of discarded drafted personnel grew rapidly. The
conscientious objectors began organising in 1965 and by January 1967 they
established their own union 180 . Up to 1973 the Danish numbers of conscientious
objectors grew, and the politicians felt forced to change the conscription system to halt
the growing political influence of the conscientious objectors.
174
In 1982 several attempts to establish peace research institutions in Denmark were recorded by G. K.
Wilson in his A global Peace Study Guide, including: the Danish Peace Research Group
(Arbejdsgruppen for Freds- og Konfliktforsking) established in January 1977) and the Danish Peace
Research Society. Some of the founding members of the Danish Peace Research Group were Maja Naur,
Gunnar Adler-Karlsson, Hans-Henrik Holm, Jan Øberg and Jens Thoft. Jens Thoft were member of the
International Working Group on Social Defence, established in July 1976. Rasmussen, Søren Hein:
Sære Alliancer : Politiske bevægelser i efterkrigstidens Danmark, 1997. Rasmussen of the University of
Århus describes careful and deeply social movements in Denmark after World War II: the peace
movements, the movement against Danish membership of the EEC and the movement against nuclear
power. Literature pp 289-299. Also references in notes pp 300-358.
175
Konsistoriums Arbejdsgruppe vedrørende freds- og konfliktforskning. The working group published:
Fire forlæsninger om freds- og konfliktforskning på Københavns Universitet 1983. See also: “Proposal
for Establishment of an International Council for Research and Information on Conflicts” by K. Helweg
Petersen, Danish Minister for Disarmament Questions in cooperation with Dr. D. W. Bowett. 1971.
176
Tribunal, Nr. A1 C to N 2 C.
177
Madsen, Carl: Proces mod politiet. 1969.
178
Kampagnen mod Atomvåben og Vietnambevægelsen 1960-1972 / Søren Hein Rasmussen ; Johannes
Nordentoft. Odense University Press, 1991
179
DDVs Dokumentationsgruppe: Rustningsindustri og krigsforskning i Danmark, 1973.
180 Militærnægterforeningen.