Whole Network of Friends: Doris Twitchell-Allen's Children's International Summer Villages and American Peacemaking in the Cold War

This article examines Children's International Summer Villages (CISV), a post–World War II effort to harness applied psychological expertise for the cause of world peace. Psychologist Doris Twitchell Allen believed that the American summer camp, as designed by experts, had the potential to break down national barriers and unite eleven-year-olds in "friendships without frontiers." The ambitious vision to engineer a lasting peace was characteristic of postwar psychology, and the history of the early CISV demonstrates how the Cold War made it an impossible goal.