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TRANSCEND Research Institute (TRI) focuses on problems of peace studies and peace action, and in the tradition of peace and development research, goes beyond empirical and critical studies of past and present into constructive studies of the future, not shying away from elaborating what in the view of the authors should be done. This is done not only to serve as non-dogmatic guide-lights for the future but also as a contrast to understand the past better.
Thus, autocracy was better understood against a vision of its negation, democracy; violence better understood against Gandhi's vision--and practice--of nonviolence. Sooner or later, however, time catches up with visions, exposing them to empirical tests.
TRANSCEND, engaged as it is in human and social transformation for development, and conflict transformation for peace, needs this type of research, building on half a century of research.
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TRI FOCUS
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So far there have been two major research priorities:
- Indexes of where we are on the way to peace and development
- Research papers, also as texts for TRANSCEND Peace University
The following indexes are presently being developed:
- War Participation Index (WPI) measuring the extent to which a state historically has been involved in war;
- Early Warning Index (EWI) measuring the future inclination of a state (and other actors) to be involved in wars;
- Autocracy Transformation Index (ATI) measuring the transition from autocracy to democracy of a given society;
- Conflict Transformation Index (CTI) measuring the transformation level achieved in a given conflict;
- Peace Transformation Index (PTI) measuring the extent to which autocracies, democracies and others are peace actors;
- Development Transformation Index (DTI) measuring the level of transformation at the nature, human, social and world levels.
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| TRI DOWNLOADS
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Research papers now available for free downloading:
- Dietrich Fischer, Pooja Chawda, Francesco Marelli, Paul Schultz, Sandi Shannon and Kathrin Thalhammer:
"A Living Income for Everyone on Earth"
- Johan Galtung:
The "Scientific Outlook on Development" Hu Jintao's Speech to the 17th Communist Party of China Congress
- Nafeez Ahmed:
"The IRAN THREAT: Why War Won't Work"
- Christian Beyer:
"Transcending a China-ASEAN Conflict: The Spratley Islands"
- George Kent:
"Designing a World Without Hunger"
- Johan Galtung, Branislav Gosovic, Ashok Kosla and Ann Zammit:
"THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: A Diversion From The Path of Sustainable Development"
- Johan Galtung and Michael Kuur-Sorensen:
"Images of Conflict: Bourdieu, Foucault and Habermas" - coming soon
- Fabio Fossati:
"Beyond the End of Violence and Conflict Freezing" - coming soon
- Marianne Perez:
"Peace Journalism Case Study: US Media Coverage of the War in Iraq"
[1], [3], [6] are also
Papers prepared for the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Conference,
Stavanger--European Capital of Culture 2008--10-12 September 2008 |
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