May 15, 2009

Repairing the Breach Between Academe and the Military

By DONALD A. DOWNS

For decades the relationship between the military and academe has been marked by indifference, even hostility. But there are signs of rapprochement.

Last month Harvard Divinity School sponsored a two-day conference, "Ivies and the Military: Toward Reconciliation," in a concerted attempt to cultivate mutual respect and understanding between Ivy League universities and the military. Donna Hicks, a Harvard psychologist who has worked on postconflict reconciliation in war zones around the