Jeffrey Boutwell

Jeffrey Hood Boutwell is an American historian, writer, and science policy specialist who spent his professional career at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize while he was Executive Director of the U.S. Pugwash Group)..https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14777620490494114https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1995/pugwash/facts/. Receiving his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984, Boutwell led projects on nuclear weapons arms control, Israeli-Palestinian security issues, small arms and civil conflict, and environmental degradation and social violencehttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14777620490494114https://www.proquest.com/openview/c1b903d8a53d5495fa87150b5b49cc57/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=37049. On retiring in 2010, he initiated a US-Cuban marine research program involving members of the Ernest Hemingway family and began writing a biography of family member George S. Boutwell, a noted American public figure who helped draft the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution, was a member of the House of Representatives ' impeachment committee against President Andrew Johnson, and served as Secretary of the Treasury to President Ulysses S. Granthttps://history.house.gov/People/Listing/B/BOUTWELL,-George-Sewel-(B000674)/. Jeffrey Boutwell lives in Columbia, Maryland with his wife, Buthaina Shukri.
====Early Life and Family:====
Boutwell was born in 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts and is the son of Roswell M. Boutwell (1917-1994) and Louise (Taylor) Barr Boutwell (1922-1963).The Palm Beach Post, February 12, 1994, p. 6B Boutwell attended public schools in Winchester, Massachusetts, went to high school at the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned a B.A. in European history from Yale University, writing his senior thesis on the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and World War I. 
====Early Career:====
Boutwell's first job after college was with the City News Bureau of Chicagohttps://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/14/archives/letters-body-jobs-early-shock-letters-illness-and-cure-cleanliness.html, starting as a police/fire reporter and becoming a night city editor, while also writing book reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1976 he moved to Berlin, taking a civilian job with the U.S. Air Force at the Tempelhof Air Base while learning German. He spent a year at the London School of Economics, earning an M.Sc. (Econ) in European Politics and Economics, then moved to Washington, D.C. in 1978 to take an internship as staff assistant on the National Security Council in the White House of President Jimmy Carterhttps://thebulletin.org/biography/jeffrey-boutwell/. He began his Ph.D. studies at M.I.T. in the fall of 1979, writing his dissertation on the politics of nuclear weapons in West and East Germany, published in 1990 as The German Nuclear Dilemma by Cornell University Presshttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1990-12-01/german-nuclear-dilemma-changing-politics-german-security
====American Academy of Arts and Sciences:====
In 1984 Boutwell joined the staff of the American Academy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, becoming executive director of its international security studies program. Notable publications during his tenure from 1984 to 2000 included: Weapons in Space (W.W. Norton, 1986); Israeli-Palestinian Security: Issues in the Permanent Status Negotiations (American Academy, 1995); and Light Weapons and Civil Conflict: Controlling the Tools of Violence (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999).https://thebulletin.org/biography/jeffrey-boutwell/https://www.amacad.org/project/weapons-spacehttps://www.amacad.org/publication/israeli-palestinian-security-issues-permanent-status-negotiationshttps://www.carnegie.org/publications/light-weapons-and-civil-conflict-controlling-the-tools-of-violence/Boston Globe, January 25, 1985, p. 4. Bethe, Hans A., Jeffrey Boutwell, and Richard L. Garwin. “BMD Technologies and Concepts in the 1980s.” Daedalus 114, no. 2 (1985): 53–71. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024978.
====Work with the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Massachusetts:====
In the late 1980s, Jeffrey was co-chair of the Peace and Justice Commission for the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Massachusetts, helping to organize diocesan trips to Russia (1988) and El Salvador (1990) for Bishop David Elliot Johnson.Boston Globe, April 24, 1988, p. 3.Boston Globe, March 21, 1990, p. 68
====Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs:====
During his years at the Academy, Boutwell was also executive director of the U.S. Pugwash Grouphttps://www.amacad.org/news/study-group-intervention-sovereignty-and-international-security, part of the international Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, founded in 1957 as a result of the manifesto issued by Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in 1955 to dramatize the threat posed by nuclear weapons. In 1997 he became Executive Director of international Pugwash, overseeing programs on NATO-Warsaw Pact Conventional Forces, International Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect, and US-Cuban Scientific Cooperation. https://pugwash.org/pugwash-remembrance/https://pugwashconferences.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/200710_newsletter_vol44_no2.pdf
====https://www.alaro.us Retirement:====
After retiring in 2010, Boutwell initiated a number of US-Cuban joint programs aimed at improving relations between the two countries, on such issues as shared marine natural resources, education, and tall ship tourism. In 2014 and 2015, he led groups to Cuba that included two of Ernest Hemingway's grandsons, John and Patrick, to promote recreational deep-sea fishing and build on the scientific research conducted by Hemingway in the Florida Straits in the 1930s with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia. Other volunteer activities include 25 years service as a board member of the Charles H. Hood Foundation in Boston, which specializes in children's medical research, and founder of the Youth in Philanthropy programs in Fredericksburg, Virginia and Columbia, Maryland, which provide opportunities to high school students to learn the basics of fundraising and grant making. https://cfhoco.org/partners-and-programs/youth-in-philanthropy/https://www.cfrrr.org/sara-p-boutwell-memorial-fund/https://charleshoodfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/FINAL-Jeffrey-B-2.2019.pdf
====George S. Boutwell:====
Boutwell began work in March 2020 on a biography of George Sewall Boutwell (1818-1905), a distant family relative who had a remarkable 60-year career in public life as Massachusetts Governor (1851-1853), Commissioner of Internal Revenue for President Abraham Lincoln (1862-1863), Massachusetts Congressman (1863-1869), Secretary of the U.Shttps://www.nga.org/governor/george-sewall-boutwell/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Sewall-Boutwellhttps://history.house.gov/People/Listing/B/BOUTWELL,-George-Sewel-(B000674)/. Treasury for President Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1873), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1873-1877), international lawyer, and President of the Anti-Imperialist League (1898-1905) which opposed American annexation of the Philippines following the Spanish-American War. In 1871 George Boutwell worked with President Grant to ensure passage of the KKK Act, the basis of present-day lawsuits against those who tried to overturn the 2020 election of Joe Biden as President. In 1876, George Boutwell chaired a U.S. Senate committee that investigated white supremacist violence against Blacks and their white supporters during the 1875 Mississippi state elections, producing a 2,000 page report. The biography is entitled Redeeming America's Promise: George S. Boutwell and the Politics of Race, Money, and Power, and is scheduled to be published by W.W. Norton in 2024.https://link.lithub.com/view/602ea76c180f243d6532e4c3i1p2g.a65/2a11ab2e
====Personal Life:====
Boutwell is married to Buthaina Shukri, an academic administrator who spent her career at the University of Baltimore and George Washington University. 
====Books and Articles:====
The German Nuclear Dilemma (Cornell University Press, 1990) 
Weapons in Space, edited by Franklin. A. Long, Donald Hafner, and Jeffrey Boutwell (W.W. Norton, 1986) 
Israeli-Palestinian Security: Issues in the Permanent Status Negotiations, Jeffrey Boutwell and Everett Mendelsohn (American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995) 
Light Weapons and Civil Conflict: Controlling the Tools of Violence, edited by Jeffrey Boutwell and Michael T. Klare (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999) 
Lethal Commerce: The Global Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons, edited by Jeffrey Boutwell, Michael T. Klare, and Laura W. Reed (American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995) 
The Nuclear Confrontation in Europe, edited by Jeffrey Boutwell, Paul Doty, and Gregory Treverton (Croom Helm, 1985) 
"The Politics and Ideology of SPD Security Policies," in The Silent Partner: West Germany and Arms Control, Barry Blechman and Cathleen Fisher, editors (Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988) 
"Triangulating Science, Security, and Society: Science Cooperation and International Security," in Science Diplomacy: New Day or False Dawn, editors Lloyd S. Davis and Robert G. Patman (World Scientific Publishers, 2015)
"Richmond's Lee statue, after 131 years, is an unpardonable insult," The Washington Post, July 9, 2021.
"Time for a New Emancipation Proclamation," The Boston Globe, December 27, 2022.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/27/opinion/time-new-emancipation-proclamation/
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