Johan galtung death
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Speaker Biography
Johan Galtung (University of Oslo)“Is the U.S. Political Discourse Adequate to the Task of Peace?”Watch Video
An esteemed sociologist, mathematician, author, and lecturer, Johan Galtung (b. 1930) has made enormous contributions to the worldwide peace movement throughout his lifetime. He was a prominent peace advocate during the Cold War, and has mediated a number of international conflicts.
Born in Oslo, Norway, Galtung received the cand.real. degree in mathematics and the mag.art. degree in sociology at the University of Oslo. He taught for several years at Columbia University before returning to Norway to found the International Peace Research Institute. Galtung has also served as a professor of peace and conflict studies at the University of Oslo, Director General of the International University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and President of the World Future Studies Federation.
Galtung is also the chief founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. He is credited with developing the concepts of peace journalism, structur
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Media Representatives:Please click HEREto contact Prof. Johan Galtung via Antonio Carlos da Silva Rosa, M.A. antonio@transcend.org- Assistant to Prof. Johan Galtung and Editor of TRANSCEND Media Service - www.transcend.org/tms
Quotes
“A very important reason for forbidding nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction is that they increase the threshold for what is acceptable. A conventional war is often defended by saying it did not go nuclear. The international legal framework for warfare is already a victim of nuclear arms and can only regain its validity by forbidding that insult perpetrated on humanity.”
Johan Galtung, June 2017
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Johan Galtung
Professor of Peace Studies, Dr hc mult
Born 1930 in Oslo, Norway; PhD in Mathematics 1956; PhD in Sociology 1957
- Founder of
- TRANSCEND: A Network for Peace, Development and Environment
- International Peace Research Institute, Oslo 1959
- Journal of Peace Research, 1964
- Holder of:
- Right Livelihood Award (aka Alternative Nob
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Johan Galtung by Oberg PhotoGraphics
“Gandhi’s Political Ethics” was Johan Galtung’s first academic book, co-published with his tutor and friend, Professor Arne Naess in 1955. During the three years after the publication of Gandhi’s Political Ethics, Galtung worked – among other things – on finalising the conceptual framework for what in 1959 became the world’s first academic institute with “peace” in its name, the International Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). In 1964 he founded the Journal of Peace Research. From the beginning, Galtung has been dedicated to identifying the necessary and sufficient causes for peace and equity. This was the successful outcome of the internalization of Gandhian Ethics by the mind of a scientist. It is for this early pioneering achievement that Johan Galtung is internationally referred to as “the father of peace studies”. Today, a little over 50 years after Johan Galtung launched peace studies as an acdemic field of inquiry, it is estimated that over
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