Welcome to TRANSCEND INTERNATIONAL
We are a Peace Development Environment Network. Our aim is to bring about a more peaceful world by using action, education/training, dissemination and research.
The worlds first online Peace-University
The Transcend Peace University (TPU) is an all-online university offering inter-disciplinary courses.
We cover issues pertaining to peace and development studies while emphasizing solution-oriented approaches.
Our faculty members are leading peace scholars and internationally recognized mediators.
Our next term starts in March 2014 and you can find some of our courses and staff members on the right. For more information about our programme and enrollment please go to transcend.org/tpu.
Enroll and study Peace now!
Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism
Transcend Media Service (TMS) is our platform for exclusive analysis, research and policy comment on local and global affairs. Since 2008 we published more than 9.000 articles providing our own Peace Journalism Perspective plus a digest of the week’s relevant news – in various languages.
Our current weekly digest is available at transcend.org/tms.
Also make sure to subscribe here.
Online Peace Bookshop
Transcend University Press (TUP) publishes books about peace by peaceful means, development by developmental means and environment by environmental means. On our website you are be able to order and read about more than 20 books by Johan Galtung and other authors.
Check out our complete library on transcend.org/tup.
About us
Our Mission Statement
TRANSCEND has as its mission: To bring about a more
peaceful world by using action, education/training, dissemination and
research to transform conflicts nonviolently, with empathy and creativity,
for acceptable and sustainable outcomes.
- By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively - a never-ending process;
- By transforming conflicts we mean enabling the parties to go ahead in a self-reliant, acceptable and sustainable manner;
- By without violence we mean that this process should avoid any cultural violence that justifies direct or structural violence;
- By with empathy we mean the ability also to understand the conflict the way the parties understand the conflict themselves;
- By creatively we mean channelling conflict energy toward new realities, accommodating the parties and meeting basic human needs.
TRANSCEND INTERNATIONAL was
founded August 1993 by Johan Galtung and Fumiko Nishimura as a conflict
mediation organization. Dietrich Fischer, the current director of
TRANSCEND University Press, joined soon after and in June 1995 Dietrich
Fischer and Johan Galtung invited 11 others. By now TRANSCEND has more than 400
scholars-practitioners from more than 60 countries as members.
TRANSCEND International is a timely experiment in promoting peace by peaceful means throughout the world. Traditionally, institutes have been centered around a building where the people who work together meet on a regular basis. Since many people who share common interests in helping transform conflicts nonviolently and creatively are geographically scattered and cannot usually be physically together, our solution was to create an electronic network of members, which, in addition, to diminishing our carbon-footprints and contribute to attenuate the global warming crisis has allowed TRANSCEND INTERNATIONAL to connect autonomous individuals and academic and research centers from all over the world with a focus on peace by peaceful means, development by developmental means and environment by eco-consistent means.
More concretely, TRANSCEND practices mediation and peace-building around the world, with Manuals, a Code of Conduct, and Perspectives with diagnosis, prognosis and therapy for conflicts (see: 50 Years-100 Peace & Conflict Perspectives, TRANSCEND University Press, 2008).
Our mission-statement defines four pillars on which our ongoing work builds in order to bring about a more peaceful world. These are 1:action, 2:education/training, 3:dissemination and 4:research.
- TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU (www.transcend.org/tpu),
for government and non-government practitioners and students at any
level, with 12-week bi-semester on-line courses, and intensive TPU
on-site training programs in several locations around the world (see
announcements at the TPU website);
- TRANSCEND University Press-TUP (www.transcend.org/tup),
which publishes high quality books and textbooks about peace by
peaceful means, development by developmental means, and environment by
environmental means;
- TRANSCEND Research Institute-TRI (www.transcend.org/tri), which publishes research papers and booklets for free downloading;
- TRANSCEND Peace Service-TPS, which offers
mediation, conciliation and peace-building services by TRANSCEND
members, and is open to anybody around the world with conflict and peace
concerns and experiences; and
- TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS (www.transcend.org/tms), a Peace Journalism resource for journalists/media, professionals, students and the Internet public at large.
It is on this basis, that our members strive to handle conflicts with
constructive empathy, concrete non-violent means and creativity for
mutually beneficial outcomes. [see our code of conduct for more details]
Notwithstanding the fact that for each of these four pillars, TRANSCEND
has a designated body, the cornerstone of our daily work is the
incessant interaction between these bodies.
A GENERAL PHILOSOPHY UNDERLIES OUR 13 PROGRAMS:
1. Peaceful Conflict Transformation
2. Peace-Building
3. Nonviolence
4. Reconciliation
5. Peace Education
6. Peace Journalism
7. Peace Business
8. Peace Systems
9. Peace and Gender
10. Peace and the Arts
11. Peaceful Foreign Policies
12. Peace Departments/Ministries
13. UN People's Assembly
THE TRANSCEND INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP:
Johan Galtung
Dietrich Fischer
Antonio Carlos da Silva Rosa
Naakow Grant-Hayford
Karoline Weber
Kyoko Okumoto
S.P. Udayakumar
Malvin Gattinger TRANSCEND Int’l Board: Conveners of Countries with Projects
The Executive Committee:
Executive Director: Johan Galtung
Deputy Director: Dietrich Fischer
Daily Leader: Antonio C.S. Rosa
Members: Naakow Grant-Hayford, Erika Degortes
Arab World:
Abbas Aroua – Mediation Human Rights Peace Studies
Argentina:
Sara Horowitz – University Mediation Courses
Bulgaria:
Stephan E. Nikolov – Eastern Europe in Transition
Cambodia:
Emma Leslie - Timor-Leste, Myanmar, Sri Lanka
Cameroon:
Célestin Tagou, Protestant University of Central Africa – Translations
of Galtung & SABONA to French. Johan member, scientific committee
PUCA doctorate school
Canada-NZ:
Joanna Santa-Barbara – Sustainable Developments
PR of China:
Jason G. Tower – World & Regional Harmony Transition
DRC-Democratic Republic of Congo:
Rais Neza Boneza – Peace by African’s Peaceful Means + PEP 2: People Empowerment Process/Peace Empowerment Process (leadership initiatives)
El Salvador:
Adrian Bergmann - Chair, MA program in Violence Prevention and Peace
Culture Universidad Don Bosco. Cátedra de Cultura de Paz, Instituto
Centroamericano para la Paz
Georgia:
Irakli Kakabadze – Caucasus Equity Autonomy
Germany:
Joachim Engel - Intercultures
Ghana:
Naakow Grant-Hayford - Permaculture Africa
India:
S. P. Udayakumar - End to nuclear power/energy/weapons
Italy:
Erika Degortes – Peace & Politics Workshops
Japan:
Kyoko Okumoto – Reconciliation NE Asia
Olivier Urbain – Arts, particularly music
R of Korea:
Jae-Bong Lee – Korean Unification, University Courses
Mexico:
Fernando Montiel T – Judicial mediation, TPU Spanish, Latin America
Nepal:
Bishnu Pathak – Nepal process, Federalism
Norway:
Synöve Faldalen – SABONA=TRANSCEND in Daily Life
Hardanger Academy Peace Dev Env Jondal
Philippines:
Cesar H. Villanueva – Class & Nation Conflict ASEAN
Russia-CIS:
Olga Vorkunova - CIS particularly Caucasus General Theory
United States:
East Coast, Midwest: Diane Perlman
West Coast: Marilyn Langlois – Haiti, Local 
TRANSCEND Media Service
We invite you to subscribe:
TRANSCEND Media Service - TMS is an online editorial updated weekly. It fulfills the three functions of Action, Education/Training, Dissemination and is a medium for our members to practice peace journalism and deliver solution oriented news and analyses in written or video format. TMS is both a service to other media and a medium in its own right. You are most welcome to use all the material presented - no copyright, no fees - but attribution would be appreciated. Watch Prof. Galtung explain TMS. For weekly updates and analysis on international news including Prof. Galtung's weekly editorial please click the link below:
 TRANSCEND Peace University
Apply and enroll here:
The TRANSCEND Online Peace University or TPU offers two 12-week on-line courses every year. These courses are addressed to anyone interested in peace and development,
whether beginner or seasoned practitioner, including NGO members,
diplomats, politicians, government officials, international civil
servants, students, teachers, journalists, social workers,
entrepreneurs, lawyers, officers, psychologists, artists. Yes: Our courses are adequate for students with varying degrees of experience. Get in touch with tpu-admin@transcend.org for specific considerations pertaining to your profile. In order to find out more details about application formalities, about the online course in general or the different subjects and paradigmes that make up the course, please click on the link below:
 TRANSCEND University Press
Peruse and order our Books here:
TRANSCEND University Press or TUP publishes high quality books and textbooks about peace by peaceful means, development by developmental means, and environment by environmental means. The first set of books are the 15 books written by Prof. Galtung partly in co-authorship with reputed academics such as: Prof. Paul D. Scott from the University of Sydney, Prof. Graeme McQueen from the Mc Master University of Ontario and Prof. Fred Dubee from the Beijing Genomics Institute. All these books systematically outline the scope and investigate the depth of peace studies through the trademark transdisciplinary epistemological approach that TRANSCEND University Press advocates.
The books available can all be ordered directly from our current list of publications, please click on the link below:
 TRANSCEND Research Institute
The TRANSCEND Research Institute or TRI pursues four objectives and delivers four services:
Objectives
- To produce and disseminate high quality solution-oriented reseach on peace, development and environment.
- To generate, document and disseminate new knowledge, theory and
insights relevant to peace, development and environmental work.
- To link theory, action and reflection to contribute to the further development of the field.
- To promote peace research among practitioners, and provide
grounding in the theoretical, conceptual and empirical foundations of
research methods.
Services:
- Do Thesis/dissertation supervision.
- Undertake research projects for NGOs, INGOs, civil society organizations, public sector, religious organizations.
- Store and share refreed papers/essays collected under individual researchers, topics etc.
- Facilitate key search.
Contact tri@transcend.org with concrete inquiries or visit:
First things first:
It is important to note, that one becomes an official member of TRANSCEND International only by invitation through the board of convenors. This being said, there are many ways of joining TRANSCEND International's efforts.
Now: Why Join our efforts?
Because you know that peace is not everything, but everything around us amounts to naught without it. So what is peace?
Because you share with us the need to know in intimate and systematic detail which are the means available to our species to improve our societies and living conditions in such a way that they allow for more equitable and mutually beneficial interaction in the domestic as well as in the international arena. But how?
Because you have an inkling or have done your homework and already know for a fact, that the current dominant cultural, political, military, economic and academic paradigmes are ecologically inconsistent, highly inadequate for nonviolent conflict resolution and interculturally incompetent due -among other things- to inbuilt singularisms. So what can "I" do about it?
Because you have the energy and the desire to use your brain to serve the dissemination of structure literacy, conflict literacy and nonviolent conflict resolution.
Click here to find out how you can support our work more concretely
Contribute to TRANSCEND InternationalDear Supporter-Subscriber-Reader-Viewer-Student-Analyst-Friend, thank you for supporting our efforts with previous donations.
We remain most grateful for all the donations that have come our way with no strings attached.
Please rest assured, that we are committed to employing your donations in the most conscientious way we can.
Again: Thank you.
TRANSCEND International was founded in 1993 and has launched a peace service with mediation-conciliation and resolution services in more than 100 conflicts up to this day; has developped a research institute, an online university, a university-press in two, soon four languages; as well as a weekly media service.
All of this was achieved without any outside funding, earning our way through workshops and publications.
Especially because outside funding from State or Capital may come with strings attached to often intransparent vested interests, we highly value donations from likeminded international citizens.
Allow us to appeal to your trust as we continue to put all contribution to good use for our wide range of activities that can be summed up as: solutions-oriented peace-work.
If you want to donate, please contact
info@transcend.org
Beyond monetary donations, we welcome many forms of contribution to our work. In particular you may wish to:
Yours sincerely,
TRANSCEND International TRANSCEND Peace Channel
The TRANSCEND Peace Channel or TPC, is a recent dimension of TRANSCEND International's effort towards serving the public at large with analytical views informed by peace-, conflict- and structure-literacy. Currently planned are regular comments by our regional experts on World issues, the situation in Afghanistan- Iraq-East
Asia; Southeast Asia; Latin America; the Arab World, as well as Africa. This is an important step towards strengthening the dissemination of solution-oriented journalism. Contact tpc@transcend.org to share a story idea or submit specific topics you want our experts to elaborate on. Support Peace Literacy
Support our work concretely, creatively and constructively: Join the Transcend Peace Service
Join the
Transcend Peace Service and support our work. You can contribute
intellectually, financially, symbolically, journalistically, artistically, collectively,or individually. which
ever way you choose: We encourage you to do it systematically and passionately. Either by writing
constructive solution oriented articles and proposing them to our media service
TMS, by acquiring our books and learning to think about what peace is and disseminating
your insights, by taking TPU-courses on our digital campus. We offer various
avenues for or learn more about peace.
Prof. Galtung is unequivocally recognized as the principal mind that fostered
the creation of the academic discipline
of Peace Studies in 1957. Studying the subject through his lense may quite
possiblyJoin our Digital Community
Our Digital Internship-Service
Currently planned for Germany. If succesful, will be expanded to italy . y
Join our educational effort By enrolling in our online university
you can learn from the best in the field about the foundations,
conditions, mechanisms and potentials of concrete, creative, and
constructive conflict transformation and positive peace. Join one or
several of our various courses we offer through our online university
and become more knowledgable about the structural and cultural
underpinnings of our current international system and how these
underpinnings influence our business choices, our understanding of
economics, of legitimate violence and warfare, of democratic principles,
of journalism, tourism or terrorism for that matter.
Join our dissemination effort
You are invited to join our efforts towards creating a world
more knowledgeable about solution oriented conflict analysis and conflict transformation. What does it mean to join TPS? Concretely supporting our peace work Because you are enrolled at a uniiversity and are either a student of sociology, of political science, of international law, Why Join our efforts? It is important to note, that one becomes an official member of TRANSCEND International only by invitation through the board of convenors. This being said, there are many ways of joining TRANSCEND International. Join our educational effort By enrolling in our online university
you can learn from the best in the field about the foundations,
conditions, mechanisms and potentials of concrete, creative, and
constructive conflict transformation and positive peace. Join one or
several of our various courses we offer through our online university
and become more knowledgable about the structural and cultural
underpinnings of our current international system and how these
underpinnings influence our business choices, our understanding of
economics, of legitimate violence and warfare, of democratic principles,
of journalism, tourism or terrorism for that matter.
Join our dissemination effort
Support our work concretely, creatively and constructively: Join the Transcend Peace Service
Join the
Transcend Peace Service and support our work. You can contribute
intellectually, financially, symbolically, journalistically, artistically, collectively,or individually. which
ever way you choose: We encourage you to do it systematically and passionately. Either by writing
constructive solution oriented articles and proposing them to our media service
TMS, by acquiring our books and learning to think about what peace is and disseminating
your insights, by taking TPU-courses on our digital campus. We offer various
avenues for or learn more about peace.
Prof. Galtung is unequivocally recognized as the principal mind that fostered
the creation of the academic discipline
of Peace Studies in 1957. Studying the subject through his lense may quite
possibly
You are invited to join our efforts towards creating a world
more knowledgeable about solution oriented conflict analysis and conflict transformation. What does it mean to join TPS? Concretely supporting our peace work Because you are enrolled at a uniiversity and are either a student of sociology, of political science, of international law,  TRANSCEND Peace ServiceTPS
offers discrete assistance to anybody in the world with latent or acute
conflict concerns and peace needs. We assist in generating mutually
beneficial solutions for every conflict we get to work on. TPS offers free of charge service in conflict resolution. For concrete questions,
please contact us with an email elaborating your concerns. We will serve you as best we can.
Contact TPS: tps@transcend.orgBeyond that, TRANSCEND Peace Service (TPS)
invokes all members and visitors to share their constructive, creative and concrete experiences in peace-building, mediation and conciliation at their convenience. Too bad ...
The page you requested could not be found :( Current ProgrammesPOSITIVE PEACE.
Increasing fulfillment through cooperation, harmony and fusion, peace
building, development, structural peace, cultural peace and
spirituality.
Key contact: Johan Galtung galtung@transcend.org
SABONA (Zulu for "I see You")
is TRANSCEND in daily life--schools, couples and family, at work--to
help people understand what happens in conflicts, how conflicts can be
solved and better relations be built. From experimental schools in
Norway the program is now expanding.
Key contact: Synove Faldalen synove.faldalen@lyse.net
GENERALS FOR PEACE.
During the Cold War Generals and Admirals for Peace voiced military
arguments against the type of warfare contemplated. The same is needed
today.
Key contact: Emma Leslie emma@online.com.kh
CONFLICT SENSITIVE DEVELOPMENT.
Based on deep knowledge of Sri Lanka, the Institute for Integrative
Conflict Transformation and Peace-building (IICP) in Vienna was asked to
design a conflict sensitive development program--beyond
reconstruction--in one Sinhalese, one Tamil and one Muslim village, as
well as a joint peace resource center, after the 2004 tsunami.
Key contact: Gudrun Kramer kramer@iicp.at
THE ARAB WORLD.
22 countries and more than 300 million, with numerous key conflicts within and without call for the use of
- Action: conflict transformation for Iraq, Somalia, and others
- Research: a Conflict Atlas for the Arab world, human rights
- Dissemination: peace journalism, also translated into Arabic
- Education: TRANSCEND Peace University, courses in Arabic
Key contact: Abbas Aroua abbas@aroua.com
MIDDLE EAST.
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has so far defied interventions.
TRANSFORM (The Interdisciplinary Centre for Conflict Analysis, Political
Development and World Society Research) is currently building a network
of Facilitators for Peace in the Middle East and is developing a
methodology for Social Transformation in Conflict. It is also
disseminating TRANSCEND's approach of pursuing peace by peaceful means.
Key contacts: Ahmed Badawi and Ofer Zalzberg info@transform-centre.org
AFRICA.
More than 50 countries and 500 nations call for creative use of peace
resources in deep cultures and structures, giving nations prominence in
federations and opening up in communities, with focus on the baraza and
other peace resources.
Key contact: Rais Boneza rais.boneza@gmail.com
(NORTH-)EAST ASIA.
The problem facing a (North-)East Asian region with China and Taiwan,
the two Koreas and Japan--cooperating with Russia Far East--is Japan,
often referred to as the US 51st state. On the other hand, the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization includes Central and South Asia. Creative
reconciliation and new approaches are needed.
Key contact: Kyoko Okumoto okumoto@wilmina.ac.jp
THE INVISIBLE CONTINENT.
The state system and inter-governmental organizations, playing their
often lethal games, are highly visible; less so the millions of human
generally living peaceful lives, facing deep conflicts, performing
miracles of conflict transformation and peace building. Stories pass
from generation to generation and groups to groups through griots, to be
made more visible.
Key contacts: Naakow Grant-Hayford and Karoline Weber peaceservice@transcend.org
FROM STATE FOREIGN POLICIES TO GLOBAL DOMESTIC POLITICS.
The state system is yielding to regionalization and globalization. State
foreign policies can no longer be based on (dominant) nation interests
only but have to be aligned with regional and nature-human-global
interests. The program calls for joint efforts in many states, like
Ministries for Peace, solutions for inter-regional conflicts, and global
visions for Weltinnenpolitik.
Key contacts:
Johan Galtung galtung@transcend.org and George Kent kent@hawaii.eduTRANSCEND Art and Peace Network
 We believe that the creative spirit within all human beings can transcend the forces of contradiction and conflict and that people can achieve peaceful conflict transformation and peacebuilding at the personal, local, and global levels. Music and the arts can play a major role in inspiring people towards the enhancement of more peace and justice in our societies.
The goal of this website is to encourage virtual and actual collaboration between people of all cultures, civilizations and backgrounds, concerning research into the power of the arts for peacebuilding.
Members
More information about individual TRANSCEND members is not public at this moment. Still, we provide this chart which shows where our members are from:
| 
