Adam Curle has held chairs in psychology, education and development studies at the universities of Exeter, Harvard, and Ghana, and from 1973-78 he was the first Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. He has worked as a mediator and promoter of peace in India and Pakistan, Nigeria/Biafra, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka, and is now helping to set up peace groups and trauma counselling facilities in Bosnia and Croatia. He is active in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and reveres the teaching of the Dalai Lama of Tibet.
"They told me I came from the most privileged of positions: secure, rich, white, male. I looked at myself, my family with its connections, my lack of appreciation of everything that women did for me and for society, the unearned advantage my race gave me. I realised that all the time I'd been trying to be part of the solution, actually I was part of the problem."
"I can't believe in a personal God. That implies a dichotomy, an opposition, a separation. To me the universe and everything in it is a vast system of interlocking sub-systems. It includes us all, right down to the smallest sub-atomic particle."