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===Rhodes, Fulbright and Schwarzman scholarships=== In creating the [[Rhodes Scholarships]] for outstanding students from the United States, Germany and much of the British Empire, [[Cecil Rhodes]] wrote in 1901 that 'the object is that an understanding between the three great powers will render war impossible and educational relations make the strongest tie'.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://files.rhodes.gethifi.com/Ottawa_September_2011_To_render_war_impossible.pdf |title=To 'render war impossible': the Rhodes Scholarships, educational relations between countries, and peace |access-date=9 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609195112/http://files.rhodes.gethifi.com/Ottawa_September_2011_To_render_war_impossible.pdf |archive-date=9 June 2013 }}</ref> This peace purpose of the Rhodes Scholarships was very prominent in the first half of the 20th century, and became prominent again in recent years under Warden of the Rhodes House [[Donald Markwell]],<ref>[http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/news/cecil-rhodess-vision-of-peace-highlighted Cecil Rhodes's goal of Scholarships promoting peace highlighted β The Rhodes Scholarships] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922131706/http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/news/cecil-rhodess-vision-of-peace-highlighted |date=22 September 2013 }}. Various materials on peace by Warden of the [[Rhodes House]] [[Donald Markwell]] in Markwell, ''"Instincts to Lead": On Leadership, Peace, and Education''. Connor Court, 2013.</ref> a historian of thought about the causes of war and peace.<ref>E.g., [[Donald Markwell]], ''[[John Maynard Keynes]] and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.</ref> This vision greatly influenced Senator [[J. William Fulbright]] in the goal of the Fulbright fellowships to promote international understanding and peace, and has guided many other international fellowship programs,<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/materials/news/Fulbright_18May12_Arndt.pdf | title=The Decade Ahead: The US Role in the World | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922110514/http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/materials/news/Fulbright_18May12_Arndt.pdf | archive-date=22 September 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/news/honouring-j-william-fulbright |title=Honouring J. William Fulbright - the Rhodes Scholarships |access-date=26 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922150243/http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/news/honouring-j-william-fulbright |archive-date=22 September 2013 }}</ref> including the [[Schwarzman Scholars]] to China created by [[Stephen A. Schwarzman]] in 2013.<ref>See, e.g., "The Rhodes Scholarships of China" in [[Donald Markwell]], ''"Instincts to Lead": On Leadership, Peace, and Education'', Connor Court, 2013.</ref>
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