Jim Huntley, one of CCD's founders and currently one of its vice presidents, has recently deposited all his archives, representing more than 50 years of work in building communities of democracies, to the Hoover Library on War, Peace and Revolution in the 20th Century at Stanford University. The Library and its attendant scholars programs were endowed in Stanford's care just after World War One by President Herbert Hoover.

Huntley was in the U.S. Foreign Service during the decade of the Fifties, helping in German democracy-building and later with early efforts to develop such inter-democratic institutions as NATO, the European Union, the Council of Europe, the G-7, the OECD, and APEC. He was the principal founder of the Atlantic Institute and later co-founder of such NGOs as the Mid-Atantic Clubs, the first "edition" of the Committees for a Community of Democracies in several world centers, and the International Standing Conference on Philanthropy. He helped to start the United World Colleges and the 21st Century Trust in London. From 1982-84, he was the President of the Atlantic Council of the United States.

At the Ford Foundation in the 1960s, Jim worked closely with the many NGOs promoting the unity of Europe, US-European relations, and "trilateral" connections with Japan. Much of his work at this time helped to strengthen adult education in world affairs. His private papers and the working documents that supported such efforts as these are essential parts of the Huntley collection.

Professor Paul G. Hanna of Stanford, prior to his death, asked Jim and others to bequeath their papers to Hoover as the core of the Hanna collection on International Education, as Hanna broadly defined it . In the 1960s, Paul Hanna and Jim Huntley were co-founders of the inter-university Committee on Atlantic Studies Eugene Rostow, Philip Mosely, Harold Deutsch, and Leslie Lipson were among its first members.

The Huntley archives also contain an extensive collection of background papers which served as material for his several books, including Europe and America: The Next Ten Years (1970, with W. Randolph Burgess); Uniting the Democracies: Institutions of the Emerging Atlantic-Pacific System (1980); and Pax Democratica: A Strategy for the 21st Century (1998 and 2001).

The Hoover Library is preparing Huntley's papers for archiving; these should be available to scholars and researchers later in 2005. Further information, as available, will be provided to our website readers