Before revision: Criticism of Peace and conflict studies In 1980, political scientist J. David Singer criticized the early development of the discipline of peace research on three grounds: Peace research contributed to creating a schism in research into the causes of war, thus making it harder to develop systematic research into war "many peace researchers had the intellectual innocence of most bright amateurs; they underestimated the rate at which their research findings would become applicable and would be applied to major policy problems of the day."
After revision: Criticism of peace and conflict studies In 1980, political scientist J. David Singer criticized the early development of the discipline of peace research on three grounds: Peace research contributed to creating a schism in research into the causes of war, thus making it harder to develop systematic research into war "many peace researchers had the intellectual innocence of most bright amateurs; they underestimated the rate at which their research findings would become applicable and would be applied to major policy problems of the day."