Metta Spencer (born 29 August 1931) is a Canadian sociologist, writer, peace researcher, and activist.
[1][3] She taught regularly in the university’s Peace and Conflict Studies Program, which she founded in 1989 and coordinated until her retirement in 1997.
[1] In 1976 Spencer authored the Foundations of Modern Sociology textbook, which was subsequently published in four American and seven Canadian editions.
[8] In 1997, she organized "The Lessons of Yugoslavia," a three-day Science for Peace conference at the University of Toronto.
[10] She argues that Western peace activists' influence on Russians, including Mikhail Gorbachev, helped end the Cold War more so than pressure from the US or NATO.