David Adams (peace activist)

He obtained his doctorate in psychology at Yale University 1962–1968 with a dissertation later published in Science Magazine as "Cells Related to Fighting Behavior Recorded from Midbrain Central Gray Neuropil of Cat".

[1] Then, as Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at Wesleyan University, Adams continued working on the brain mechanisms of aggression, and initiated studies which would underlie the concept of the Culture of Peace.

as an activist in the Nuclear Freeze movement, he was one of the organizers of the Peoples Peace Appeal (1986–1987) which obtained hundreds of thousands of signatures in the United States and millions in the Soviet Union in an effort to end the Cold War.

He was responsible for the newsletter of the Seville Statement from 1986 to 1994,[7] a history of its origins and effects,[8] as well as a study showing that if one believes that war is not biologically determined, one is more likely to work for peace.

[11][12] A related work with Jonathan Mink and Rob Blumenschine was able to show a general rule that most vertebrate species devote between 2% and 8% of basal metabolism to the brain.

[15] The Culture of Peace[16] is a "set of values, attitudes, modes of behavior and ways of life that reject violence and prevent conflicts by tackling their root causes to solve problems through dialogue and negotiation among individuals groups and nations.

[22] In 1994, he left his University Post in order to establish the UNESCO Culture of Peace Programme under Director-General Mayor and Director Leslie Atherley,[23] and along with Firmin Edouard Matoko.

Along with Enzo Fazzino and a small team, largely volunteer, and with the full assistance of Director-General Federico Mayor, they developed a publicity campaign for the Manifesto 2000.