Articles by Robert Kowalczyk
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Peace, Consciousness, and Applied Amplified Peace Intelligence (AAPI)
Robert Kowalczyk and Klaus Schlichtmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
The Normative Current: Abolishing War and Establishing True Collective Security
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Peace, War and Consciousness
Robert Kowalczyk and Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
The Normative Current: Abolishing War and Establishing True Collective Security
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Reflections on the G7 Summit in Hiroshima
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
27 May 2023 – Following is a series of thoughts and reactions to the G7 Summit in Hiroshima. Now is a time to share positive, balanced solutions to help prevent the grim possibilities of a future world war; these thoughts and actions are offered in that spirit.
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The Normative Current
Robert Kowalczyk interviews Klaus Schlichtmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
13 May 2023 – Dr. Klaus Schlichtmann [Short-Listed for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022] on a Natural and Continued Flow towards Rebuilding World Peace
→ read full articleAn Interview with Dr. Klaus Schlichtmann, a Short-listed Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Robert Kowalczyk: Not many Germans recently have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Please explain the essence of your thoughts and why they are crucial at this moment in our world’s history.
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Dissonance Searching for Resonance: A Time to Remember the Hibakusha, or Are We Too Late?
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – The world is now bracing itself for a possible Russian invasion of the Ukraine. The U.S. is pushing back, with President Biden talking about “a World War.” Hopefully, it’s not too late to remember the Hibakusha (Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings). How does one limit such an exchange once the first button is pressed?
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Dissonance Searching for Resonance: An Open Letter to TRANSCEND Members and Friends
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Needless to say, if you are a frequent writer, contributor, or visitor to the TRANSCEND Media Service website, you are aware of the unique significance this Weekly Digest offers both as a beacon and archive. Thirteen years of thought on major global issues from a wide variety of peace and conflict transformation perspectives. You also must be aware of the financial difficulties that TMS now continues to face.
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Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 – Needless to say, if you are a frequent writer, contributor, or visitor to the TRANSCEND Media Service website, you are aware of the unique significance this Weekly Digest offers both as a beacon and archive. Thirteen years of thought on major global issues from a wide variety of peace and conflict transformation perspectives. You also must be aware of the financial difficulties that TMS now continues to face.
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A Message of Encouragement to Delegates of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
The Group of 21 was a hastily assembled NPO of Japanese and international community friends organized in Kyoto in 1997: 21 youths, ages 1 to 21, from 21 different countries, to take a group photograph and run a global postcard campaign to reduce global warming. The postcards were to support the COP3 Global Warming Conference scheduled for December 1997 offering delegates an inspiring welcoming to Kyoto.
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A Photograph and Its Meaning
Gary Corseri short interview with Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Note: My American friend, Robert Kowalczyk, a retired Professor and Department Chair at Kindai University, Osaka, Japan, was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, working in Seoul, South Korea, during the Vietnam War. “Can you tell me more about this photo, this image? How did you compose it?” “I always feel the best images compose themselves, that’s how they stay alive.”
→ read full articleReflections from Kyoto (on Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Dissonance Searching for Resonance
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Reflections from Kyoto
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
25 Jul 2021 – Dissonance Searching for Resonance – Last night from Tokyo, Japan those of our troubled, speculative, hopeful, and cynical world who had live-screen accessibility could watch the opening ceremonies of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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Celebrating 20 Years of Peace Mask Project: An Interview with Director Kya Kim
Robert Kowalczyk interviews Kya Kim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
Many peacebuilding efforts understand the value of art and symbolism in their work, but not many have artists on staff. With 20 years of experience, I believe we have a tool that is easily adaptable and can work in a variety of cultural and environmental contexts. We have seen how the Peace Mask making workshops bring people together through the heart rather than the mind and create a harmonizing experience and atmosphere for participants.
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Peace Mask Project
Robert Kowalczyk interviews Myong Hee Kim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
8 Aug 2020 – The following interview was held at Myong Hee Kim’s studio in the small rural village of Takano, Japan. She is the founding artist of the Kyoto-based international NPO, Peace Mask Project, currently celebrating its 20th year of workshops, talks, discussions, performances and exhibitions.
→ read full articleA 75th Commemorative Year for the Hibakusha (2020-2021)
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
The Hibakusha, those who 75 years ago survived the fires and black rains of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have lived through hell and have brought the world a message, a prayer to humanity that remains unanswered. A softly spoken hope, now nearly gone.
→ read full articleA Plan to Sustain TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS
Robert Kowalczyk and Gary Corseri – Members of TRANSCEND,
8 Jul 2019
We feel certain that you appreciate TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS as much as we do. It is truly a meeting place for those of us in Conflict Transformation, Peace Journalism and all related fields. Should TMS suddenly disappear from the Internet, we would all feel bereft of a great source of community sharing, discussion and inspiration. Therefore, it is hereby proposed that, working together via our shared network, we can find a way to better sustain Antonio’s work as it is in behalf of our own community.
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A Distant Flickering Light: The Hibakusha Peace Movement (Part 2)
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018 – An Interview with Kazuyo Yamane, Associate Professor of Peace Studies (retired) Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan – Is the Hibakusha Peace Movement fading? Why or why not?
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A Distant Flickering Light: The Hibakusha Peace Movement (Part 1)
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
[The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.] An Interview with Mrs. Koko Kondo, The Tanimoto Peace Foundation – Do you think the Hibakusha are still important? “They are still very important. Those individuals of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only humans who have ever experienced and survived a nuclear bombing. That is a fact. They are the ones who know. Only they.”
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Reflections on the Donald Trump/Kim Jong-un Singapore Summit
Robert Kowalczyk interviews Peace Studies Prof. Lee Jae-bong – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
Interview with Lee Jae-bong, Professor of Peace Studies at Wonkwang University, South Korea, in the early afternoon of June 12, 2018 while the United States-North Korean Summit was taking place in Singapore.
→ read full articleThe Peace Mask Project Celebration in Hiroshima
Robert Kowalczyk and Kimberlye ‘Kya’ Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Peace Mask Project celebrates the completion of 100 Peace Masks of 1st to 4th generation Hibakusha in an endeavor to honor their 71-year appeals for peace and to amplify their call for a future free from the threat of nuclear weapons.
March 24-26, 2017, Hiroshima
A Forever Imminent Threat?
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Two towering exclamation points have been writ high on the sky, each an indelible imprint on human consciousness. Hiroshima! Nagasaki! And yet, 70 years later, through the countless wars that have followed WWII, on the surface of the fracturing social, economic and political global landscape, humanity dreams on, unaware and unforgiven.
→ read full articleTalk between Johan Galtung and Ikuro Anzai
Akifumi Fujita & Robert Kowalczyk,
30 Sep 2008
Topic: Article 9 and Japan’s future. Ikuro Anzai is honorary director of the Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University, and Johan Galtung is founder of TRANSCEND-A Network for Peace and Development. I. Anzai: The Kyoto Museum for World Peace of Ritsumeikan University was established in 1992. Since that time the museum has been visited […]
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