Glenn D. Paige ’55

Glenn was born June 28, 1929, and he died Jan. 22, 2017, in Honolulu.

He originally entered Princeton with the Class of ’51, but postponed his education for four years of military service. He came to us from Phillips Exeter Academy. At Princeton he majored in politics and his thesis was titled “The Decision to Intervene in Korea — 1950.”

Glenn taught at Seoul National University, Princeton University, and the University of Hawaii. His journey took him from combat veteran and Cold War strategist to visionary founder and leader of the Center for Global Nonkilling, founded in 1994. He was a renowned scholar of nonviolence, political leadership, and international relations, authoring several seminal books.

Among his many honors were the Princeton Class of 1955 Award in 1987 and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leadership Award in 2010. Glenn will be remembered for his unique vision of promoting change toward the measurable goal of a killing-free world in reverence to life presented in his path-breaking book Nonkilling Global Political Science, published in more than 30 languages. The book has inspired affiliates throughout the world, including a Glenn Paige Nonkilling School in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Glenn is survived by six children from his first marriage, 10 grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren, and brother Kent Paige of Massachusetts.