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26/02/2019

New post (CTS 2019 test) has been published on Galtung-Institut

02/07/2018

New post (A glimpse at Trumpism & Why I read Norway's Klassen Kampen) has been published on Galtung-Institut

There are many summit meetings, usually with Trump. Stephen F. Cohen, “Who’s Afraid of a Trump-Putin Summit?“, (The Nation27 Jun 2018): they may serve to assess each other before a war–and to search for peace. But, do they know what that means beyond disarmament and rule of law?

04/02/2018

New post (Johan Galtung: Never Again! Against Militarism; for Conflict Transformation.) has been published on Galtung-Institut

In WWII, I was 13 when N***s invaded & occupied Norway. My father, vice mayor of Oslo, was on the right side of history: He helped the resistance against N***s. They found out & locked him up in a concentration camp in Grini. He survived. I swore: Never again! I have written about this extensively i...

02/02/2018

New post (MISSING: CONFLICT LITERACY & PEACE LITERACY) has been published on Galtung-Institut by

The example is Robert Malley “10 Conflicts to Watch in 2018”, in Foreign Policy, USA,, 03-01-2018. His list: 1. North Korea, 2. US-Saudi-Iran rivalry, 3. Rohingya-Myanmar-Bangladesh, 4. Yemen, 5. Afghanistan, 6. Syria 7. The Sahel, 8. Democratic Republic of the Congo, 9. Ukraine, 10. Venezuela.

31/12/2017

New post (Alternative Dispute Resolution or Legalism? Beyond the Schism!) has been published on Galtung-Institut

Under the umbrella term Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), discourses around mediation and other non-judicial approaches to conflict resolution have been constrained by a predominantly legal narrative ultimately founded on an `either-or’ dichotomy between status quos instead of allowing a third...

13/12/2017

New post (Former Facebook Executive: "Facebook is programming you") has been published on Galtung-Institut

You may want to forward to the 21:22 minute mark to get to the point, though the entire conversation with Chamath Palihapitiya is worth a listen.

13/12/2017

New post (Trauma Drama: What does North Korea Really Want?) has been published on Galtung-Institut

For more in-depth knowledge on resolving the conflict formation in Korea, read:“Korea – The Twisting Road to Unification” (by Johan Galtung & Jae-Bong Lee)

08/12/2017

New post (Permaculture for Peace: SONED-Network in Africa - Focus: Ghana) has been published on Galtung-Institut

This is an orginal interview with Jan “Kipper” Fischer, a Permaculture Practitioner from Berlin who is very active in subsaharan Africa. He is the founder of SONED (Southern Networks for Environment and Development) an NGO which has consistently been building and deepening networks in Africa for...

07/12/2017

New post (Trump's USA: Demoralization, Destructuration, Deculturation? (Johan Galtung)) has been published on Galtung-Institut

In our recent interview with Prof. Johan Galtung (founder of the academic discipline of Peace Studies and this year’s laureate of the People’s Peace Prize), it becomes clear, that though there are solutions:

24/11/2017

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17/11/2017

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