17 Sustainable Peace Goals [21 Sep Int’l Day of Peace]: The TRANSCEND Approach
SPOTLIGHT, 21 Sep 2015
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service
The United Nations is adopting 17 Sustainable Development Goals, with nothing about peace. Here are 17 Sustainable Peace Goals, based on much experience, for consideration and comment.
| No | GOAL | SUSTAINABILITY |
| 1 | Cooperation with Equity | Indispensable |
| 2 | Harmony with Empathy | Indispensable |
| 3 | Institutionalization | Useful if peaceful |
| 4 | Fusion to one actor | If a peaceful actor |
| 5 | Transmission to others | For an afterlife |
| 6 | Conflict solution with transcendence | Indispensable |
| 7 | Trauma conciliation with closure | Indispensable |
| 8 | Remove structural violence as motivation | Indispensable |
| 9 | Remove cultural violence as justification | Indispensable |
| 10 | World Rule of Law, Human Rights, Democracy | Not as sum of states |
| 11 | Regionalization, United Regions | Across state borders |
| 12 | Localization, United Communities | Across state borders |
| 13 | Disarmament to States without armies | Were never attacked |
| 14 | Transarmament to Defensive Defense | Were never attacking |
| 15 | Peace Education Peace Journalism | Making peace public |
| 16 | Gender and generation parity | To involve everybody |
| 17 | For multi-nation states: federations
For multi-state nations: confederations |
Loosen states
Tighten neighbors |
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Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU. He has published 164 books on peace and related issues, of which 41 have been translated into 35 languages, for a total of 135 book translations, including ‘50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives,’ published by the TRANSCEND University Press-TUP.
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