MC 1275

Inventory to the Institute for World Order Records

By Albert C. King

February 1983

Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.

Finding aid encoded in EAD, version 2002 by Tara Maharjan, May 2021

Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University received an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.

Administrative History

The earliest direct predecessor of the Institute for World Order incorporated in Washington, D.C., November 17, 1948, as a nonprofit, educational association governed by a board of directors. Known as the Association for Education in World Government, the organization listed among its purposes the collection, study and analysis of "information and facts relating to international organization and international law" and the exploration and study of "proposed methods of achieving world government through the United Nations or otherwise." The association underwent a change in name twice during the 1950's, becoming the Association for Education in International Government in 1952 and the Institute for International Order in 1954. In 1959 the principal officers of the organization were the president, vice president, treasurer, assistant treasurer, and secretary.

World Law Fund

In July of 1961 the Fund for Education for World Peace through World Law began under the sponsorship of the Institute for International Order. Inspired by Grenville Clark, co-author of World Peace Through World Law, the Fund was designed as l1a world education program on the inadequacies... of the present international system and the necessity for world authority structures to deal with the world's most critical problems." To govern the Fund a separate Managing Committee was established, several members of which also sat on the board of directors of the Institute for International Order. Funding for the new organization derived primarily from independent fundraising and not from the Institute. In 1963 the name of the Fund was shortened to the World Law Fund. Overseeing the Fund's activities throughout its existence was Harry B. Hollins', Chairman of the Fund's. Managing Committee and a vice president of the Institute for International Order.

University Program

In 1962 a study commissioned' by the World Law Fund revealed that virtually no courses on the subject of world' peace problems were then being offered in American colleges and universities. This finding led to the establishment of the Fund's University Program, the director of which reported to the Chairman of the Managing Committee. A primary function of the University Program was the development of educational "materials useful for teaching world order studies." Later, in 1972, the director of the University Program was also charged with encouraging the establishment of world order studies centers in American universities. Eventually several centers were established, including seven which received grants from the Institute. Following administrative restructuring in, 1972, the University Program became a part of the Institute for World Order, with the program's director reporting to the president of the Institute. In 1976 the name of the University Program was changed briefly to the Transnational University Program before becoming the Transnational Academic Program later the same year"

School Program

The Secondary School Program of the World Law Fund began in 1963 when the Fund co-sponsored a series of seminars at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In December of 1963 a separate director was hired to administer the School Program. She reported to the Chairman of the Funds Managing Committee. During its fourteen year, existence, the School Program developed curriculum materials for use in junior and senior high schools, held seminars to acquaint teachers with world order studies, and published a newsletter entitled Ways and Means. Additionally, the program's director actively participated in workshops and professional meetings in the fields of secondary education and curriculum development. Following the reorganization of the Institute for International Order in 1972, the School Program became a part of the Institute for World Order, with the program's director reporting to the president of the Institute. In 1977 the School Program was closed out and its director retained as the Institute's Teaching and Curriculum Consultant.

World Order Models Project

A third program of the World Law Fund was the World Program which sponsored its first overseas conference in New Delhi, India, in 1964. Three years later the World Program evolved into phase I of the World Order Models Project under a director who reported to the Chairman of the Fund's Managing Committee. In 1972, following administrative restructuring within the Institute for International Order, the World Order Models Project became a part of the Institute for World Order, with its director reporting to the president of the Institute.

Phase I of the World Order Models Project assembled eight teams of scholars from different parts of the world. From the perspective of its own area, each team developed an alternative model of world order capable of realizing peace, social justice, economic well-being and ecological balance." To review the efforts of the research teams, a separate Sponsoring and Policy Review Committee was established in each geographical area. During the project's first five years a series of seven conferences was held to bring together the research directors of each team. The outcome of this initial phase of the World Order Models Project was a collection of six books in the series Preferred Worlds of the 1990s.

During phase II of the World Order Models Project (WOMP) the number of participating scholars increased and work began toward the evolution of a consensus model of world order. Building upon their experiences in phase I of the World Order Models Project, the participating scholars launched Alternatives: A Journal of World Policy under WOMP sponsorship in 1975. Two years later a series of WOMP Occasional Papers was inaugurated. In addition, during phase II of the World Order Models Project three separate task forces were established to address topics of global concern: the Task Force on Security, Disarmament, and Human Rights, the Task Force on Science and Technology, and the Task Force on Global Culture.

Directing the World Order Models Project since its inception has been Saul H. Mendlovitz. a professor of law at Rutgers University. Sharing the directorship with Mendlovitz since approximately 1977 has been Rajni Kothari. Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India. By 1978 the sponsoring organizations of the World Order Models Project had expanded to include not only the Institute for World Order, but also the World Order Models Project at the University of Tokyo, the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India, and Synergic Developments, associated with Fundacion Bariloche. Argentina.

Grants Committee

In 1964 a Grants Committee was established within the Institute for International Order using funds contributed by Earl D. Osborn, the Institute's president. Funds awarded by the Grants Committee were intended as seed money for projects relating to peace education and research. Members of the Grants Committee included several of the Institute's directors, as well as several non-board members. In addition, for much of its existence the Grants Committee had its own administrator who reported to the committee.

Although the Chairman of the Grants Committee reported to the Institute's board of directors, the Grants Committee acted independently of the board, except for grants exceeding $2,500 (later $10,000). The president of the Institute, in his capacity as an ex-officio member of the Grants Committee, possessed the authority to ask that any grant potentially detrimental to the Institute be referred to the board of directors. At different times both the World Law Fund and, after 1972. the Institute for World Order received awards from the Grants Committee. By 1975, however, an agreement was reached that grants to Institute projects would not exceed 20% of the Grants Committee's budget in anyone year. The Grants Committee dissolved in 1978 following the distribution of over two million dollars during its fourteen year history.

Americans Talk Peacekeeping

In 1971 the Grants Committee. with~he approval of the Institute's board of directors, inaugurated a two year public education project to publicize the peacekeeping potential of the United Nations. Initially titled American FamilyPeace Talks, the program was actually conducted under the name of Americans Talk Peacekeeping CATP). Administering the project was a director under a policy committee which reported to the Institute's board of directors. After May of 1972 the policy committee reported to the Institute's Executive Committee. Serving on the ATP Policy Committee were several members of the Grants. Committee, including the project director, Elizabeth C. Little.

The Instituters part of Americans Talk Peacekeeping included the creation and distribution of several pamphlets and brochures which were promoted through a mass media campaign using public service announcements. In conjunction with, the project, a series of workshops was held in targeted cities nationwide using materials prepared by the Institute. Coordinating the workshops was. the United Nations Association of the USA which received an award for this purpose from the Institute's Grants Committee.

Administrative Restructuring

In October of 1970 the board of directors of the :Institute for International Order appointed a committee to examine the administrative relationship between the Institute, the Grants Committee, the World Law Fund, and the World Order Models Project. Actual administrative restructuring began in October, 1971, when the board created the position of Chairman of the Board. At the same time Harry B. Hollins, Chairman of the Managing Committee of the World Law Fund, was elected president of the Institute. In addition, an ad hoc nominating committee was established to identify additional persons to be invited to join an expanded board of directors. The following May the Managing Committee of the World Law Fund was dissolved, but the name "World Law Fund" was kept for its programs pending the adoption of a new name for the Institute for International Order. Also in Mayan Executive Committee of the Instituters board of directors was established to act on behalf of the board between meetings and to perform the functions of a nominating committee. In December 1912, the board of directors changed the name of the Institute to the Institute for World Order;" the name "World Law Fund" was dropped.

Public Relations

Also in December, 1972, the Institute's board of directors authorized the establishment of a Public Relations program. This program lasted throughout 1973 and was administered by a director who reported to the president of the Institute. As a successor to the Public Relations program, the Institute initiated a Public Information program in 1974 which lasted until 1976. Beginning in 1978 the public relations function was assumed by the newly created Public Education and Public Affairs program. One project administered by the Public Education and Public Affairs program was the Wallach Awards Competition held in 1980.. Awarded in the competition was approximately $20,000 in prize money for published and unpublished essays on the advantages of an enduring peace system." At a later date the Institute also added a separate Media Relations program. Each of these Institute programs was administered by a director who reported to the president of the Institute.

Public Education (1974-1917)

In 1974 the Institute for World Order undertook two pilot programs preparatory to launching a major public education project. The first pilot program, authorized by the board of directors in October of 1973, was the Leadership Seminars Program. This program was designed to orient leaders in the fields of business, law, labor, religion, and communications to a world order values perspective. The first of the Leadership Seminars was held in June, 1974, and was co-sponsored by Kettering Foundation.

The second pilot program conducted by the Institute in 1974 was the Community Action Program. By hiring field representatives to work with local chapters of citizens' groups, the program aimed to "connect people’s local concerns and needs to global problems, thereby showing them how world order issues touch them and (how) they can influence system change." This program soon became known as the Reassessing of American Values program (RAV). In September, 1974, the Institute's board of directors approved the spin-off of RAV into a separate, non-profit organization.

Building on the two pilot programs, the Institute's Public Education on Global Issues project (PEGI) began in May of 1976. Administering the project was a director who reported to the president of the Institute. In addition, an advisory committee was established to provide advice for the undertaking. The global issues identified to receive the project’s primary emphasis were disarmament, human rights, food, and the new international economic order. Although intended as a five year effort, budgetary considerations contributed to the program being phased our after one year. During the last six months of PEGI ten seminars were held under Institute sponsorship.

Action Center

In the fall of 1976 the Food Action Center of Washington, D.C., changed its institutional affiliation from the National Student Association Foundation to the Institute for World Order. Under this arrangement the Action Center, as it became known, listed itself as "a Project of the Institute for World Order" and its staff members became employees of the Institute. Although the director of the Action Center reported to Institute personnel. the Action Center continued to conduct its programming and fundraising independently of the Institute. The purpose of the Action Center was "to involve American young people in social justice work on global and local hunger issues." Included among its programs were a series of workshops, an internship program,' and the publication of informational literature. In October of 1978 the Action Center again changed its institutional affiliation. becoming a project of the Children's Foundation. Two months later the Action Center closed permanently.

Operation Turning Point: End the Arms Race

To coincide with the United Nations' first Special Session on Dis-armament in 1978, the Institute for World Order undertook Operation Turning Point: End the Arms Race using funds contributed by Earl D. Osborn. This project was conceived as "a nationwide educational campaign disigned to focus public attention upon the issues coming before the UN Special Session and to suggest possible alternatives to the arms race." Directing the project was Elizabeth C. Little who had previously administered the Institute's Americans Talk Peacekeeping project. In her capacity as project director, Mrs. Little reported to the president of the Institute.

Operation Turning Point: End the Arms Race (OTP) consisted of a series of activities relating to disarmament. For example. the project created a series of pamphlets, brochures and slide/tape presentations which were promoted through a national media campaign.' Building on this informational base. an OTP field representative worked with coalition groups around the United States "informing them of materials availab1e and what citizen groups can do to promote disarmament." Another part of Operation Turning Point was the distribution of $100,000 in grant money for projects relating to disarmament by a Disarmament Grants Committee."Priority consideration was given to organizations not traditionally in the "peace field, and to programs designed for community, rather than academic, audiences." The Institute also sponsored several conferences relating to disarmament as part of the project, including a conference in New Delhi, India.

Grenville Clark Project on Disarmament

Coinciding with Operation Turning: End the Arms Race was another disarmament project of the Institute. Known officially as the Grenville Clark project on Disarmament, it commemorated the tenth anniversary of the death of Grenville Clark. The project consisted of the creation, distribution, and promotion of a position paper outlining "the political steps, attitudinal changes and innovations required to abolish the war system.1I Directing the project was Robert C. Johansen, an Institute staff member. Assisting Johansen was a four member advisory committee which commented on various drafts of the position paper which was entitled "Toward a Dependable Peace: A Proposal for an Appropriate Security System." Initial funding for the Grenville Clark Project on Disarmament came from a $50,000 contribution from the budget of Operation Turning Point: End the Arms Race.

Network to Educate for World Security

The most recent public education project of the Institute for World Order is the Network to Educate for World Security project. Begun circa 1981, this project is administered by a director reporting to the president of the Institute.

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Principal Officers

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Scope and Content Note

The records of the Institute for World Order, accession 3196, date 1948, 1958-1959, 1961-1982, with the bulk of the documents falling between 1966 and 1978. Included in the records are documents created by the World Law Fund between 1961 and 1972. by the Institute for International Order between 1970 and 1972, and by the Institute for World Order between 1973 and 1982. Scattered earlier records of the Institute for International Order date from 1948, 1959, and the mid-1960s. All of these records were created in the organizations' New York offices.

Because of the interrelated nature of the records of the World Law Fund, the Institute for International Order, and the Institute for World Order. the records of these organizations have been kept together as a single record group. When given to Rutgers University in 1982 by the Institute for World Order, the records filled 46 record center cartons. With reboxing and the segregation of duplicates, the volume was reduced to 42 cartons.

Included in the records of the Institute for World Order and its predecessor organizations are incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, speeches. reports, agendas and minutes, transcripts of meetings, conference papers, drafts of published manuscripts, photographs, tape recordings, and movie film. Also included in the records are various printed materials. including pqmph1ets, brochures, journal articles, newspaper clippings. journals, and newsletters. Not contained in accession 3196 is a file of Institute publications.

The records of the Institute and of the World Law Fund. In addition, the records contain biographical data relating to Institute personnel. including Harry B. Ho11ins~ Elizabeth C. Little. Saul H. Mend1ovitz, and Earl D. Osborn. The records of the Institute also provide insight into the formal and informal interaction between various groups active in the peace movement in the United States.

Records of the programs and projects of the Institute for World Order relate to curriculum revision, public education, and the sponsorship of scholarly research. Falling in the area of curriculum revision are the records of the Institute's Transnational Academic Program. These records provide important documentation of the period during the 1960s and 70s when peace and world order studies were first added to the curricula of American colleges and universities. The Institute's public education projects center on the arms race, arms control, peacekeeping, and disarmament. The records of these programs demonstrate the difficulty of broadening active constituencies for issues related to peace. The Institute's principal ongoing research project is the World Order Models Project. Documented in the project's records are the views of Western, Eastern, and Third World scholars on the institutional structures necessary to achieve a just, peaceful, ecologically balanced global system which transcends the jurisdictional conflicts of individual states.

While providing significant insights into the activities of the Institute for World Order, the records in accession 3196 also contain significant omissions. For example, although the Institute was incorporated in 1948, the minutes of the board of directors in accession 3196 do not commence until 1970. In addition, the series of annual financial statements does not begin until 1971 and is incomplete thereafter. Similarly. the first records of an Institute president in accession 3196 are those of Harry B. Hollins who was elected in 1971. The records of the Institute's Grants Committee, begun in 1964, are even less complete, representing only the years' 1917-1978. Generally complete, however, are the records of non-current Institute projects begun in 1971 or later.

Over one-third of the records of the Institute for World Order document the World Law Fund (1961-1972) or Institute programs originally begun by the World Law Fund. These records are generally more complete than those of the parent Institute, although several gaps exist. the most notable of these gaps is the omission from accession 3196 of a file of the minutes of the Managing Committee of the World Law Fund. Missing also are the office files of the School Program (1963-1978). Records of the University Program (now the Transnational Academic Program) are generally complete, as are the files of Harry B. Hollins, Chairman of the World Law Fund's Managing Committee. The Fund's annual financial statements are also present, but only for 1961-1964. Missing from the files of the World Order Models Project are the working papers discussed at several project conferences, but as a whole the project is well documented.

A listing of the principal correspondents of the Institute's operating officers has not been prepared, pending the preparation of folder listings for several of the record series in accession 3196. Among the individuals appearing on the list will be Archibald S. Alexander, Grenville Clark, Norman Cousins, Alan Cranston, C. Douglas Dillon, Earl Osborn, and Cyrus Vance. Organizations appearing on the list will include the Arms Control Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council on Religion and International Affairs, the 1968 Democratic National Convention Committee, the Fund for Peace, New Call to Peacemaking, and the Stanley Foundation.

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Arrangement Note

Because of the interrelated nature of the records of the World Law Fund. the Institute for International Order. and the Institute for World Order. the records in accession 3196 were kept together as a single record group. A separate subgroup was created for each Institute program or project for which records were present. Subgroups also were created for the Institute's board of directors, the Executive Committee, the Office of the Executive Committee Chairman, and the Office of the President. In addition, a separate subgroup was created for several series of administrative records of the World Law Fund.

The three series in subgroup A, the Board of Directors, were created for the convenience of the researcher using documents originally filed elsewhere in the records. AGENDAS AND MINUTES, series A-3, represents a 1970-1972 minute book of the Institute for International Order to which additional minutes and agenda items have been added. These additional items were removed from the GENERAL FILE of President Mendlovitz (series D-l) and from the GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE of Executive Committee Chairman Hollins (Series C-l). No minutes of the board are present before 1970, nor do any of the documents in this series postdate 1978. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, series A-2, consists of annual balance sheets of the Institute for World Order removed from the GENERAL FILE of President Mendlovitz (series D-l). These statements date only from the mid-1970a. BYLAWS, series A-I, represents a collection of documents removed from a grant proposal in series G-3, the TASK FORCE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, as well as copies of the Institute's bylaws removed from the GENERAL FILE of President Mendlovitz (series D-l) and from the GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE of Executive Committee Chairman Hollins (series C-l). None of the documents in series A-I postdates 1972.

The records in Subgroup B, the Executive Committee, consist of AGENDAS AND MINUTES, series B-1, which date from the creation of the Executive Committee in 1972 and continue through 1977. The documents in this series were removed from the GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE of Executive Committee Chair-man Hollins (series C-1), with two additional sets of minutes coming from the GENERAL FILE of President Mendlovitz (series D-1). This run of minutes in not complete, especially for the years after 1974.

Harry B. Hollins maintained and built on the four record series in subgroup C, the Office of the Executive Committee Chairman, while serving as Chairman of the Managing Committee of the World Law Fund (1961-1972), as President of the Institute for International Order (1971-1973), and as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Institute for World Order (1972-). Included in this subgroup is a file of GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, series C-1, which dates 1958, 1961-1979. The bulk of the letters pertains to the years 1966-1977. A separate series of OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE, series C-2, dates 1971-1978 and is complete, with the exception of the period March through December, 1974. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, series C-3, is an outgrowth of Hollins' OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE and contains letters of acknowledgement sent to financial supporters of the Institute during 1978. Series C-4, TRAVEL AND SPEECHES, covers the period 1958, 1961-1974.

Within the Office of the President, subgroup D, subdivisions exist for the records of each individual who has served as president of the Institute since 1974.As previously noted, the records of Harry B. Hollins as president of the Institute (1971-1973) are incorporated within the series comprising subgroup C, the Office of the Executive Committee Chairman. Not present in accession 3196 are the office files of President Osborn (1955-1971) or of President Wallin (1973-1974). As president of the Institute from 1974 through 1977, Saul H. Mendlovitz continued to build on record series he had created while serving the Institute in other capacities. His records as president, there-fore, both pre-and postdate his term of office. For example, his GENERAL FILE, series D-1, dates 1966-1980. Similarly, Mendlovitz's PUBLISHED LIIER-. ARY PRODUCTIONS, series D-3, dates 1963-1978. On the other hand, SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, series D-2, does not commence until Mendlovitz's final year as president and dates 1977-1979. The final series in subgroup D is series D-4, the GENERAL FILE of Robert C. Johansen, who became president in 1978. This series dates 1977-1980 and consists of records generated by Johansen as Assistant to the President, and as President, of the Institute for World Order.

The records in subgroup E,the World Law Fund, constitute three series. Series E-1 consists of printed REPORTS describing the World Law Fund and dates 1964, 1965, 1967, 1971. Series E-2, FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, is limited to the Fund's first four years, 1961-1964. The third series in subgroup E is FUNDRAINSING. series E-3, which dates 1959, 1961-1973. Additional records pertaining to the World Law Fund are found in the series comprising subgroup C, the Office of the Executive Committee Chairman, especially in series C-1 and C-4. Not present anywhere in accession 3196 is a file of the minutes of the Managing Committee of the World Law Fund.

Contained in subgroup F are the records of phase I of the World Order Models Project. These records date 1963, 1966-1974, although the bulk of the material falls between 1967 and 1974. The AREA FILE, series F-1, dates 1963, 1966-1974 and consists almost exclusively of photocopies of correspondence found in series G-1, the AREA FILE for phase II of the project. Additional correspondence relating to phase I of the project, especially conferences, is contained in F-6, GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, which dates 1968-1974. Series F-2, CONFERENCE PAPERS, dates 1967(?) and includes most, but not all, of the papers discussed at Conferences of the Research Directors during phase I of the project. Conference TRANSCRIPTS, series F-3, dates 1968-1974 and is complete for the Conferences of the Research Directors. The TRANSCRIPTS, also include meetings of the U.S. Sponsoring and Policy Review Committee, with the exception of the committee's January, 1969, meeting. This gap is partially filled by the AUDIO RECORDINGS, series F-4, which contains a recording of the evening session of that meeting and of a 1971(?) Conference of the Research Directors. MANUSCRIPTS OF PUBLICATIONS, series F-5, dates 1972-1974 and includes manuscripts and critiques of several books in the series Preferred Worlds of the 1990s.

Subgroup G, the World Order Models Project, Phase II, includes five series. Series G-1, the AREA FILE, dates 1966-1977. It includes correspondence with scholars participating in one or both phases of the project. Additional correspondence relating to phase II of the project, especially conferences, is contained in series G-2, GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, which dates 1974-1978. Series G-4, the CONFERENCE PAPERS for phase II of the project, dates 1976-1980 and is only partially complete within those dates. A related series, TRANSCRIPTS AND REPORTS, dates 1977, 1979 and is also incomplete. The fifth series in subgroup G is that of the TASK FORCE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, series G-3, which dates 1977-1979.

Two records series constitute subgroup H, the Transnational Academic Program (formerly the University Program). Series H-1. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, dates 1963-1976, 1978 and consists primarily of correspondence on the subject of peace and W9rld order studies in American colleges and universities. Series H-2, the GENERAL FILE, dates 1965, 1973-1978 and includes records relating to miscellaneous aspects of the program, including personnel.

The records in Subgroup I, the School Program, are contained in a GENERAL FILE, series 1-1. These records date 1967. 1971-1974. Series I-I represents only a few miscellaneous items relating to the School Program, and not the program's office files. Several issues of Ways and Means, the program's newsletter, are contained 1974 in the series, but a complete file of the newsletter is lacking.

Although the Institute's Grants Committee existed from 1964 to 1978, the only records in subgroup J, the Grants Committee, date, 1977-1979. These records constitute series J-l, the PROJECT FILE, which documents proposals submitted to the Grants C0mmittee during 1977 and 1978. In addition, the annual reports of the Grants Committee are found in series A-3, the AGENDAS AND MINUTES of the board of directors. Complementing the records in accession 3196 are 57 cm. (2 ft.) of Grants Committee records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. The Peace Collection's holdings for the Grants Committee date 1965-1978 and include correspondence memoranda, proposals, budgets, reports, and a complete set of minutes.

The records documenting the public relations and publicity functions of the Institute for World Order are found in subgroups K and L. Subgroup K, the Public Information program, includes two series. WORLD ORDER MODELS PROJECT PUBLICITY, series K-l, dates 1973, 1975-1976. Included in this series is one file from the Public Relations program, an Institute program for which no other documents are present in accession 3196. The second series in subgroup K is the TWO CLIPPING FILE, series K-2, which dates 1974-1976. Subgroup L, the Public Education and Public Affairs program, consists of a single series. The WALLACH AWARDS COMPETITION, series L-1, dates 1979-1981 and documents' an essay contest sponsored by the Institute on the subject of "the advantages of an enduring peace system."

The American Talk Peacekeeping project, subgroup M, includes two series, each of which dates 1971-1973. The project's READING FILE, series M-l, consists primarily of outgoing correspondence and is complete, with the exception of the period March through May, 1972. Reports, pamphlets, and brochures are among the documents in seriesM-2, the project's GENERAL FILE. Absent from subgroup Mare examples of the media spots prepared for use in the Americans Talk Peacekeeping project.

The records of two additional disarmament projects of the Institute are contained in subgroups N and O. Operation Turning Point: End the Arms Race, subgroup N, includes three series. The CHRONOLOGICAL FILE, series N-l, dates 1977-1980 and includes primarily outgoing correspondence. Series N-2, the GENERAL FILE, dates 1976-1978 and includes pamphlets, brochures and project reports among other documents. Series N-3, the RADIO AND TV SPOTS, dates from 1977. Subgroup 0, the Grenville Clark Project on Disarmament, consists of the project's GENERAL FILE, series 0-1. which dates 1977-1978. For the convenience of the researcher, these records were removed from the GENERAL FILE of President Johansen (series D-4) and were made into a separate subgroup.

Subgroup P, the Network to Educate for World Security project, consists of series P-l, which dates 1979, 1981-1982. This GENERAL FILE consists primarily of the brochures and press releases disseminated by the project through January, 1982.

The final subgroup in the records of the Institute for World Order is subgroup Q which contains the records of the Leadership Seminars Program. The program's GENERAL FILE. series Q-l, is the only series in the subgroup. This series documents several seminars on the subject of world order values which were sponsored by the Institute for World Order in 1974 and 1975.

The records of the Institute for World Order which pertain to the Action Center in Washington, D.C., were not made into a separate subgroup. These records date 1976-1979 and are filed under "ActionCenter" in the GENERAL FILE of President Mendlovitz (series D-l) and in the GENERAL FILE of President Johansen (series D-4). The office files of the Action Center are not contained in the records of the Institute for World Order as the two organizations were only briefly affiliated.

Absent from accession 3196 is a file of Institute publications. For example, complete runs of the serial publications of the Institute, including the World Law Fund Progress Report, Ways and Means, Transition, Macroscope, and Alternatives: A Journal of World Policy, are not present in the records. When present, Institute pamphlets and brochures are incorporated in the records of the program or project which created them. In addition, several general Institute publications are filed in box 36.

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Restrictions

Access

Access to the records of the Institute is currently restricted. Permission to consult these records must be obtained from the Institute for World Order, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Institute for World Order Records, MC 1275, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.

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Detailed Description of the Collection/Container List

This section provides descriptions of the materials found within each series. Each series description is followed by a container list, which gives the titles of the "containers" (for example, folders, volumes, or cassettes) and their locations in the numbered boxes that comprise the collection. The availability of any digital items from a container is indicated with a hyperlink.