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Welcome message from Johan Galtung
and the team of TRANSCEND University Press (TUP)

TRANSCEND University Press will publish high quality books about peace by peaceful means, development by developmental means and environment by environmental means. They will often be outcomes of research at Transcend Research Institute (TRI), and of teachings at the Transcend Peace University (TPU). At TPU they may be used as text-books, or courses may be built around the books.
Our goal is to become a leading publisher in this field, knowing who needs, who can use, and who demands this knowledge; and knowing who can supply it. We want much dialogue with both sides of this demand-supply equation to do the best possible job.
One publishing formula is with KOLOFON Forlag in Oslo. They sell book packages with printing and ISBN and can distribute from their own center in Norway and via shops.
The other publishing formula would be with any publisher that puts the TUP logo up front against us using our channels to advertise the book and sale via TUP.
Distribution will be by mail from our storage in Austria-- using the credit card facility of this web-site in advance--sales at meetings where the books are relevant, amazon.com, etc.
The revenue will be used for TRANSCEND activities.

TUP Managers: Natalia Shelaru & Antonio Rosa
Copy-editor: Dietrich Fischer
e-mail:
Web-site: www.transcend.org/tup