PORTSMOUTH – The Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum has enhanced the “Diplomats in Portsmouth” exhibit in the John Paul Jones House Museum to showcase the prominent diplomats featured in Forum events. The museum opens for the season on Thursday, May 23. Regular hours are Thursday-Monday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (last admission at 4:30 p.m.) and by appointment on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum was founded in 1994 to explore, through Japanese, Russian and American perspectives, the history of the Treaty of Portsmouth and its relevance to current issues involving the Northern Pacific region and provides a platform for examining US international diplomacy in the "spirit of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty.
Since then, the Forum has hosted senior diplomats including Ambassadors Dennis Ross and Samantha Power, Assistant Secretary of Defense Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. In February, the Forum welcomed Russian specialist and former National Security Advisor Fiona Hill. Hill first participated in the Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum in 1995 when she joined Harvard Belfer Center Director Graham Allison for a panel with Russian and Japanese diplomats to discuss their study, Beyond Cold War to Trilateral Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region. Hill and Allison returned to the Forum in 2016 to “Reconsider the Trilateral Cooperation Study.”
“The exhibit features the Forum diplomats’ books and posters from the events,” said Charles B. Doleac, Forum chairman and senior partner at Boynton, Waldron, Doleac, Woodman & Scott PA Portsmouth. “The display underscores the ongoing research by the Forum to supplement the ‘Portsmouth Peace Treaty: An Uncommon Commitment to Peace’ exhibit, created in 2005 to present original research detailing the role of citizen diplomacy during the 1905 peace conference seeking an end to the Russo-Japanese War. Visitors will also learn about the 1713 Treaty of Portsmouth which sought to settle disputes between English settlers and the First Nations of the Seacoast who were being displaced by the colonists.”
The Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum also supports the website PortsmouthPeaceTreaty.org, a lecture series and the Portsmouth Peace Treaty Living Memorial cherry trees around the state. To learn more, visit PortsmouthPeaceTreaty.org
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