Research Papers & Other Resources

Rainer Gude, IofC's Chargé de Mission and Network Coordinator in Geneva, and Chris Breitenberg, IofC International's Communications Director, developed a profile of Initiatives of Change for the Journal of Conflictology, an interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed open access journal on conflict resolution.

Jay Stinnett, a historian of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) has written The Enduring Legacy: Frank Buchman and the Anonymous groups, a research paper marking the centenary of Buchman's transforming experience in Keswick which led to the birth of the Oxford Group and, as a consequence, AA and the 12-Steps movements.

Dr Philip Boobbyer, lecturer in modern European history at the University of Kent, UK, has recently published two academic articles on the history of the Oxford Group and Moral Re-Armament: 

• B. H. Streeter and the Oxford Group, in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History (2010);
  BH Streeter was a leading New Testament scholar and theologian of the first half of the 20th Century. In the last few years of his life he identified himself closely with the Oxford Group (the forerunner of Initiatives of Change) and worked with it until his death in a plane crash.
• Faith for an Ideological Age: the moral and religious ideas of Seymon Frank and Frank Buchman, in the Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (2009).
  Semyon Frank was one of the leading Russian thinkers in the years before and after the 1917 revolution, part of a group whose 1909 landmark collection of essays Landmarks identified the fatal flaws in the revolutionary currents of their time. Along with several others, Frank moved from supporting Marxism to opposing it from a position of Christian faith.
• These articles can be downloaded from the following website: www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff/staffpages/boobbyer.html