Articles by Johan Galtung, 16 Jul 2012

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Breivik: A Part of Norwegian Reality (Part III)
Johan Galtung, 16 Jul 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jul 2012

The court gave him a podium to broadcast his views, nationally and internationally. Of course he had his right to tell his version, the ‘what’ and ‘why’. But he had confessed and horrible details added little to the worst misdeed in Norwegian history. The open court process could have been limited to one week. And the incapability of both sides of the psychiatric divide to reflect what political conflict polarization does to people is not a court issue. And Norway has to come to grips with what happened.

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