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WORLD CONGRESS AGAINST THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS COMES TO A CLOSE IN BRAZIL
UNICEF,
6 Dec 2008
Nations Leave With Blueprint for Action in the Fight to Protect the World´s Children The sexual exploitation of children is not inevitable. That was the message coming out of Rio de Janeiro today where 137 governments have been meeting with children, international organizations, NGOs and private sector companies. While those gathered in Brazil recognize that […]
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Brazil Sun,
6 Dec 2008
Cuba has the lowest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate at 0.1 percent of the population in the Caribbean, the National AIDS Prevention Center (NAPC) said. While AIDS-related mortality is low in the island, and mother-to-child transmission is negligible, the epidemic shows a sustained growth, mainly among the male population, NAPC chief Rosaida Ochoa told journalists on Thursday. […]
→ read full articleCRAFTING A BLUE-PRINT FOR A GREEN GLOBAL ECONOMY
UN Environment Programme,
6 Dec 2008
Leading environmental economists researchers, business leaders and senior figures from international organizations are to meet in Geneva to take forward the United Nations’ Green Economy initiative. Also headlined as a ‘Global Green New Deal’, the $4 million initiative was recently announced in London by Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme […]
→ read full articlePirates, Mumbai, and then?
Johan Galtung,
1 Dec 2008
We are back again to the basics. Atrocities are committed along the Somali coast and in Mumbai, and our thoughts are with the victims and the bereaved. “Life as normal” is a casualty. And yet we have that burning question, why, why, why!? Why is journalism so bad at getting at motives; not that motives […]
→ read full articleProf. Johan Galtung Interviewed by Kimberlye Kowalczyk
Johan Galtung,
30 Nov 2008
The “father of Peace and Conflict Studies” and founder of TRANSCEND on the US presidential election of Barack Obama.
→ read full articleFINANCING POVERTY – RESCUING THE RICH INSTEAD OF THE POOR
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders,
28 Nov 2008
Taxpayer’s money is being misused in the global financial crisis to rescuing those that have grown super-rich by draining the real economy, creating poverty, and fuelling the destruction of the earth. Time to replace the dominant model with a circular eco-economy that mimics nature More than 116 million people around the world demonstrated on October […]
→ read full articleAn Empire Named Charisma?
Johan Galtung,
24 Nov 2008
Change? Or – maybe not, because No, We Cannot? Major foreign policy positions have emerged as Obama had to make some concrete positions known: Jerusalem, united for Israel forever; a surge in Afghanistan and Pakistan to get rid of terrorism once and for all; Georgia and Ukraine members of NATO; a League of Democracies to […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL TRENDS 2025
Chairman of the National Intelligence Council,
23 Nov 2008
"Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World" is the fourth unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future. It offers a fresh look at how key global trends might develop over the next 15 years to influence world events. Our report is not meant […]
→ read full articleISRAEL CONTINUES STARVATION OF GAZANS DESPITE UN PLEAS
The Irish Sun - Editorial,
22 Nov 2008
In what the UN has described as collective punishment, the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip continues. Notwithstanding 56% of the 1.5 million Gazan population consists of children, Israel has shut down access to the region refusing to allow desperately needed food trucks to reach their destination. UN food agencies in Gaza that have had […]
→ read full articleFull Moon Over Bolivia
Johan Galtung,
17 Nov 2008
La Paz-Santa Cruz 17/Nov/08 A full moon illuminates the mountains, the altiplano, and that vertical capital La Paz, as well as the plains around Santa Cruz, center of the four (of nine) departments of the medialuna, half moon shaped, part demanding autonomía from La Paz, and for municipalities. Deep polarization and serious violence. Why? History, […]
→ read full articleHARNESSING CARBON FINANCING TO BOOST SUSTAINABLE FARMING
UN-FAO,
15 Nov 2008
Win-Win-Win for Development, Climate Efforts Some 100 experts from five continents meet today (28/Oct/08) to chart the way to harnessing a large new flow of funding – carbon finance – to agricultural development and to improving the lives of poor farmers the world over. Billions of dollars are available every year under the Kyoto Protocol’s […]
→ read full articleYOUNG EUROPEANS PRESENT STRATEGIES TO COMBAT RACISM IN SPORTS TO EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
unescopress,
15 Nov 2008
Representatives of the project “Youth Voices against Racism”, an initiative of UNESCO, FC Barcelona and the European Coalition of Cities against Racism (ECCAR), in partnership with the European Parliament, visited the Parliament in Brussels on 6 November and presented a document containing 10 recommendations to counteract racism in and through sports. These recommendations emerged from […]
→ read full articleThe Economic Crisis And The US Empire
Johan Galtung,
10 Nov 2008
The crisis in the US economy would also have happened even without the empire. The crisis is an outcome of US hyper-capitalism, capitalism at maximum pressure, with no constraints or “regulation” as the market forces say. And more particularly of the pumping, sucking up of wealth from below, placing 90 million US citizens in misery, […]
→ read full article4 November 2008: A New Beginning?
Johan Galtung,
5 Nov 2008
Yes, it is. The race barrier broken, the referendum on the 43d US president, George W. Bush won overwhelmingly, there will be a basic change in the image of the United States of America all over the world. People around the world love to love USA, warts and all. Bush made it impossible for most, […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL COOLING IS HERE
Prof. Don J. Easterbrook, Department of Geology, Western Washington University,
4 Nov 2008
Evidence for Predicting Global Cooling for the Next Three Decades Global Research Editor’s note The following article represents an alternative view and analysis of global climate change, which challenges the dominant Global Warming Consensus. Global Research does not necessarily endorse the proposition of "Global Cooling", nor does it accept at face value the Consensus on […]
→ read full articleAmerica The Beautiful
Johan Galtung,
26 Oct 2008
We had left Harrisonburg VA early to get the sunrise when crossing the Skyline Drive–a national, historical landmark–with hilly Virginia, a little misty, in front of us. The sun was redlining that traditionally Republican state. The flaming fall colors were lighted by the rising sun as the road twisted and curled and rose and sank […]
→ read full articleAFRICOM, MILITARIZATION AND RESOURCE CONTROL
Nunu Kidane,
25 Oct 2008
Source: Pambazuka News For years, the US never considered Africa as a priority foreign policy agenda. The only context in which Africa came up in Washington was for preferential trade as in AGOA (Africa Growth and Opportunity Act) or in AIDS-funding from PEPFAR (the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and of course humanitarian assistance. […]
→ read full article(A MUST READ) THE FALL OF THE U.S. EMPIRE–AND THEN WHAT?
Johan Galtung, 22 Oct 2008 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2008
[Economic Contradictions- (2)]- between productive and finance economy: Domestic and global market turnover being high even if the growth is sluggish in the productive economy in many countries, and distribution being low, there will be heavy accumulation of liquidity high up searching for an outlet. Luxury consumption and productive investment being limited, the obvious outlet […]
→ read full articleReconstructing USA
Johan Galtung, 20 Oct 2008 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2008
Greensboro and the Blue Ridge, North Carolina, 20/Oct/2008 There is tremendous excitement in the air, carried by the name Obama. Change. The mantra word. The feeling that a New Beginning may be around the corner. For one who has the privilege of organizing workshops on the concrete content Americans might like to see happen, there […]
→ read full articleDECONSTRUCTING THE POWER OF THE GLOBAL ELITE: BRUTE FORCE, THE POWER TO HURT, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTROL
Judith H. Young,
17 Oct 2008
In the aftermath of Congressional approval of bailout legislation granting sweeping powers to the financial elite, the body politic appears to be helplessly mired in the relentless unfolding of classical fascism before its very eyes. Coming to terms with this terrifying predicament can benefit from a primer that renders naked the forms of raw […]
→ read full articleVegetarianism against Global Hunger
EVANA-Swiss Union for Vegetarianism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2008
On 7-8 October 2008, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the United Nations marked the anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights which assures everyone’s entitlement ‘to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food’. Sixty years after signing that declaration of good will, […]
→ read full articleAlfred Nobel’s Will Betrayed
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2008
A Norwegian lawyer and peace activist, Fredrik Heffermehl, has done the world a great favor with his book Nobels Vilje, Nobel’s Will, just out, showing that the Nobel Peace Prize committees have strayed away from Nobel’s testament. The prize, according to Nobel’s will, is for “the most or the best work for fraternity between the […]
→ read full articleMORAL CAPITALISM
Stephen B. Young,
12 Oct 2008
Is Moral Capitalism Possible? Can morality be made relevant to business? Can virtue and self-interest ever coincide? If not, then a moral capitalism is not possible. Morality is an idea invented by people; it does not exist of its own in the natural order. Therefore, morality must be made to happen through human action. The […]
→ read full articleUN WELCOMES UAE’S PLAN TO TACKLE PLIGHT OF STATELESS PEOPLE
UN News Centre,
12 Oct 2008
The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed a decision by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to resolve the situation of thousands of stateless people living there, and voiced the hope that the Persian Gulf nation’s efforts will encourage other countries in the region to do the same. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees […]
→ read full articleLEADERS AT UN LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TO VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE MALARIA DEATHS BY 2015
UN News Centre,
12 Oct 2008
Government, business and civil society leaders gathered at the United Nations today to launch a global campaign to reduce malaria deaths, currently at more than 1 million each year, to near zero by 2015, with an initial commitment of nearly a $3 billion. The Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP) aims to cuts deaths and illness […]
→ read full articleJohan Galtung’s Published Books
Johan Galtung,
11 Oct 2008
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Galtung – 50 Years with Peace Studies
Johan Galtung,
7 Oct 2008
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Johan Galtung Talks about His Forthcoming Books
Johan Galtung,
7 Oct 2008
On Understanding Conflict: Matti, 22
Johan Galtung,
6 Oct 2008
6 Oct. 2008 Last month tragedy visited a peaceful place in a peaceful Nordic country, Kauhajoki in southeastern Finland; the second time in less than a year, after November 2007 in Jokela in southern Finland, 19 killed; last month Matti, 22, killed 10 with himself. At their own school, entering a class, gun in hand, […]
→ read full articleWILL NATO’S EXPANSION BUBBLE BURST?
Sara Flounders,
6 Oct 2008
U.S. imperialism’s every effort to assert itself and reverse its declining global domination confirms its weakened position. Washington increasingly looks to threats of sanctions and/or military attack to resolve its every problem and challenge. But the Bush administration finds it more difficult to line up its imperialist allies for each new aggression. Even some U.S. […]
→ read full articleWHAT WE HAVE KNOWN AS “WALL STREET” IS NOW STUNNINGLY NO MORE
Stephen B. Young,
6 Oct 2008
Manhattan’s great investment banks are gone. The last two – Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley – are converting into banks, submitting to more intrusive government regulation in return for more secure sources of capital. Communism couldn’t kill this Wall Street; capitalism, however, did. Adam Smith won out over Karl Marx. This "Wall Street" died at […]
→ read full articleTHE GENTLE GIANT
Jun Togo & B. Blue,
6 Oct 2008
What is the cause of wars and terrorism? Why do humans continue to fight each other? We dedicate this peace message picture book to a world torn by terrorism and wars.GO TO ORIGINAL
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Johan Galtung,
2 Oct 2008
The US Economic Crisis: 10 Proposals
Johan Galtung, 29 Sep 2008 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2008
Stavanger-Norway, September 29/2008 What a cynicism to talk about “crisis” as a phenomenon of a month or a year or two, when every day about 125,000 die from system-produced hunger and curable-preventable diseases! Much of the responsibility lies buried in an economism privileging the transaction system above the basic needs of the actors. Economics as […]
→ read full articleIsrael-Palestine: What Peace Looks Like
Johan Galtung,
22 Sep 2008
Israel and Palestine met for peace this weekend or, so did positive parts of their civil societies, under the good auspices not of Italy’s government but of the Regione Toscana, in Pisa, where a tower is leaning, but still standing. The theme was European Union as a mediator. With the Israeli government in permanent coma, […]
→ read full articleThe US Elections
Johan Galtung,
16 Sep 2008
Should the world have the right to vote in US presidential elections given their importance for world affairs?Formally speaking, a better solution would be a UN Peoples’ Assembly. But the second best would be a US president with the interests of the world, all nations, humans and nature on top of his mind and deep […]
→ read full articleJapan: A Stagnant Country with NGO Dynamism
Johan Galtung,
16 Sep 2008
The news from Japan is that there are no news. Thecountry seems lost between a rapidly declining US Empire and a quicklyrising China-India, Chindia, with the yuan-rupee (yupee?) soonovershadowing the yen. The State seems to have no other project thannourishing status quo. Capital is lost in small and big scandals ofthe type capitalism seems to […]
→ read full articleThe Korean Peninsula Conflict is not North-South, but North-USA
Johan Galtung,
16 Sep 2008
Peace studies divide into two parts, negative and positive. Negativepeace studies are about prevention of violence, and the most promisingapproach is to solve underlying conflicts through mediation andconciliation. Positivepeace studies are about building equitable relations, not only formutual but also for equal benefit, and the most promising approachesare through cooperation, harmony and fusion into a […]
→ read full articleOn Conferences and Anti-Conferences
Johan Galtung,
15 Sep 2008
Point of Peace in Stavanger, Norway, just concluded a 3 days so-called summit conference with some Nobel Peace Prize Laureates on Alarms and Solutions; with no solutions. The themes: “Facing the Climate Challenge”, “9/11 And Then What?”, “The Challenge of Informing the Public”, and the Millennium Development Goals, MDG. Much money, much establishment, a crown […]
→ read full article10 Steps to Millennium Development Goals
Johan Galtung,
8 Sep 2008
The Millennium goals by 2015 are well chosen, even laudable: [1]Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; reducing by one half those wholive on less than $1 a day and those who are starving. [2] Ensure that all boys and girls complete elementary school. [3] Promote gender equality and empower women; removing the proportion difference of girls […]
→ read full article12 Approaches to Global Warming
Johan Galtung,
1 Sep 2008
There is much talk about global warming, and rightly so. But we need concrete ideas about moving from talk to action, possibly with two concerns lurking in the back of the mind: What is the human-generated percentage, as opposed to giant cosmic processes; and where is the good laboratory simulation? How much of this is […]
→ read full articleSpirituality and Peace
Johan Galtung,
25 Aug 2008
Our world is clearly missing something, in fact much, in its efforts to achieve peace. And one of them is expressed by the word “spirituality”, about as overused as the word “peace” precisely because they both embody so many of our dreams. Having spent much time demystifying peace (50 Years: 25 Intellectual Landscapes Explored, TRANSCEND […]
→ read full articleEnergy Conversion and Its Discontents
Johan Galtung,
18 Aug 2008
There is much talk about energy and it conversion these days. Actually, as the sum of energy is constant, it is about conversion from one form to the other, like thermal energy stored in oil-gas-coal, or kinetic energy from moving water and wind to electric energy, bio-mass energy to thermal energy, etc. There are problems, […]
→ read full articleCaucasus: The Powder Keg at Work
Johan Galtung,
11 Aug 2008
In 2003, from a TRANSCEND perspective on Caucasus (50 Years: 100 Peace & Conflict Perspectives, TRANSCEND University Press 2008, chapter 39c, see also chapter 64): TRANSCEND was asked in June 1997 to explore possible ways out for the (South) Caucasian situation. As nothing along the lines suggested (broadly speaking, a Caucasian Community for the 3 […]
→ read full articleThe Host Country/Immigrant Contract
Johan Galtung,
4 Aug 2008
A sad drama is unfolding in one European countryafter the other: higher barriers for immigrants, and for citizenship. Denmark, today one of the least tolerant countries, has an exam inDanish facts and values, Germany and France are planning the same,Norway’s opposition party, probably in government next year, iscontemplating; as opposed to Sweden, with citizenship automatic […]
→ read full articlePerfide Albion And Grand Strategy
Johan Galtung,
28 Jul 2008
Like today, Anglo-America (A-A) faced two major challenges in Europe in the first between-wars period: communism from Lenin took power in 1917, and nazism from Hitler was given power in 1933. The latter was a geo-political challenge with Germany demanding revision of Versailles, Neuordnung in Europe with Lebensraum–a New Order and space–as did Italy more […]
→ read full articleG8 and Global Pollution
Johan Galtung,
14 Jul 2008
There are figures in the air. CNN’s Todd Benjaminpointed out that the G8 countries account for 50% of the world wealth,but major developing countries for 70% of the world growth. And AlJazeera estimated the G8 share at 48% some years ago, now down to 43%,whereas-because major developing countries’ share has risen from 12% to27%, like […]
→ read full articleHousing, Food, Oil – What Next
Johan Galtung,
7 Jul 2008
“You see, this is a buying-and-selling car, not a driving car!”, the Chilean said as he wrapped the car I had sold him in plastic. I had used it, as a UNESCO expert, and did like they all do (the standard excuse): had a garage make it look new, and pocketed the difference. Seller and […]
→ read full articleCold War I and II – Solutions Anyone?
Johan Galtung,
30 Jun 2008
Cold War-I, say 1949-1989, came and went. Whathappened? Cold War-II started mid-1990s, building on the ruins of ColdWar-I and is now building up. What will happen? Anything to learn? Whatwas Cold War-I about? Reading the rhetoric of the time byestablishment and anti-establishment we might believe it was about armsrace in general, nuclear arms in particular, […]
→ read full articleThe West and Islam
Johan Galtung,
23 Jun 2008
We have been there before, many times. The West, particularly the United Kingdom-Britain-England, have attacked Islam after the massive Christian attack known as the Crusades. By no means forgetting the Omayyad Islamic attack on the Iberian peninsula and close to 800 years occupation up to Poitiers in France, nor the Ottoman expansion into Southeastern Europe […]
→ read full articleNOBAMA?
Johan Galtung,
16 Jun 2008
He held his cards close to his breast, this Barack Obama. Rather than talking program he talked Change and Together, and his incredible charisma did the rest. Now a nominee. But cards must be shown. Democracy is about transparency, including of what the candidates stand for. He is surrounded by advisors, there are leaks, and […]
→ read full articleThe May 1968 Revolution 40 Years Later
Johan Galtung,
2 Jun 2008
I will never forget that day. There was the standard French ritual: barricades, cobblestones, cars, buses even, turned over, tires burning, tear gas, CRS police in full gear, and hordes of students jumping from car to car to get away from the drifting clouds. One sensed 1789-1830-1948-1870/71. And strikes, grève. But then it changed tonality […]
→ read full articleA Vision for Sudan
Johan Galtung,
26 May 2008
Dear friends in peace, Peace Be Upon You, Sala’am Aleikum! My task at the end of this very impressive conference with 150 participants here in Hermansburg on the Lüneburger Heide is to fly above the nitty-gritty of failing implementations of the many peace agreements, report the visions, and indicate possible solutions that have been tried […]
→ read full articleThinking Colombia
Johan Galtung,
19 May 2008
What a brilliant idea! The Senate of the República and the Universidad Nacional organize Thursday meetings in the Congress on how to think about Colombia, opened by president Alvaro Uribe, the president of the Congress, Nancy Gutiérrez, and then a foreigner, this author, amply covered by the press and TV channels. Many countries might benefit […]
→ read full articleIsrael at Sixty
Johan Galtung,
12 May 2008
Casalmonferrato 09 May 2008 The synagogue in this rather remote little town, in the middle of the Milano-Genova-Torino triangle, dates from 1735. They came here, Spanish Jews, expelled by that primordial ethnic cleansing, at the hands of the Spanish reyes católicos Ferdinand and Isabella, from 1492 onwards. Moros, Jews, heretics, or all those suspected thereof; […]
→ read full articleCatastrophes, Aid and Peace Politics
Johan Galtung,
5 May 2008
Four natural catastrophes have touched our hearts theselast years: the tsunami hitting the coastlines of the Indian Ocean; thehurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans, USA; the cyclone hitting Myanmar; and the earthquake hitting Sichuan in China. All four clearcases of natural violence, nature’s violence, against us, humanbeings. Of course, we sometimes attribute intent to Nature as revengefor […]
→ read full articleA Little Future History?
Johan Galtung,
28 Apr 2008
I have in front of me the 120 members of the SwissZulassungs-kommision who decide whether a young man who refusesmilitary service should be accepted as conscientious objector and betransferred to Zivildienst, civil service. Criteria: is theirconscience, not necessarily religious, compelling, and is the youngman’s construction of reality, from inner conscience-intentions to theouter actions-consequences contradiction-free? […]
→ read full articleThinking Conflict
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2008
In an important article in the leading Austrian newspaper Der Standard (16-17 Feb 2008), Hans Küng, the famous president of the World Ethos Foundation, calls for more than “change” from a new US president. He calls for basic change, guided by a new ethos. And Küng gives a number of examples of misguided policies by […]
→ read full articleThe Democratic Illusion
Johan Galtung,
14 Apr 2008
Democracy is about people choosing leaders who areaccountable downward, to the people. So, what kind of leaders do wechoose? Not too impressive in the Western democracies. George W. Bush obviously suffers from a mental disorder, some kind ofautism, living in his own bubble, repeating the same message offreedom–even saying that his criterion for success is […]
→ read full articleTibet
Johan Galtung,
7 Apr 2008
All over the same story: nations imprisoned in statesagainst their will, wanting freedom-independence-autonomy, like forTibet, the “Xizang autonomous region” next toNepal-India-Bhutan-Myanmar; – once–like Samis in Norway–primitivehunter-gatherers and then traditional agriculturalists, united by the5th Dalai Lama in 1642; – then the Big conqueror/civilizer, the Qing Chinese dynasty, came in1720 and occupied till the Qing collapse in […]
→ read full articleThe Crime Against the Serbs: Kosova Independence
Johan Galtung,
10 Mar 2008
That the USA was the first out to recognize the break-away state was to be expected. From a country devoid of historical understanding but filled with the solid egocentrism of oil pipelines, with an enormous base, Camp Bondsteel, at Urosevac near Pristina, as a part of the encirclement of Russia-China, so militarist that they could […]
→ read full article50 Years of Fidel
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2008
Late 1958, 50 years ago, the revolution won, Batista fled, Fidel and his brother Raúl entered Habana early 1959. The rest is history. Castro’s resignation as President is a mini-event. He has put his mark on the history of Cuba, Latin America, the whole world. He has survived politically 10 US presidents (5 even serving […]
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