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Convocations

* 1st: New York Hilton Hotel, New York City, New York, March 1969 * 2nd: New York Hilton Hotel, New York City, New York, April 29–30, 1970 * 3rd: Hotel Americana, New York City, New York, October 1971

References

MINNESOTA POLITICS OF THE LEFT Papers, 1968-1974
018 the Second National Convocation on the Challenge of Building Peace, Minnesota BiPartisan Caucus to Stop the War, and Minnesotans for Amnesty.
Electronic Guide to the Administrative Records of the Division of World Peace of the General Board of Church and Society
1444-4-2:25: National Convocation on The Challenge of Building Peace, 1968–1969 *Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law, ''American Journal of International Law'', Vol. 64, No. 4 (Oct., 1970), pp. 928–947

National Convocation on the Challenge of Building Peace, New York, 1969. First..., condensed transcript. (N.Y.?); Fund for Education in World Order, (1969?). 63 pp.

External links

Recording of the Luncheon Session at the 1st Convocation
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The WNYC ArchivesRecording of the 1st session at the 1st Convocation, "Is America Becoming a Militaristic Society?
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The WNYC Archives
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