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\"\"<\/a>TRANSCEND \u2013 A Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
(If you are here for the first time, please read Johan Galtung’s Welcome Note<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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  1. TMS does not accept sponsored or payed posts from advertising or other businesses not in line with Peace Journalism and\/or our editorial policies.<\/li>\n
  2. Only pieces that abide to THESE GUIDELINES<\/a> will be considered\u2013which does not assure their publication.<\/li>\n
  3. We do not fix\/change\/update links within archived articles\u2013only their authors may do that.<\/li>\n
  4. No footnotes, endnotes only.<\/li>\n
  5. Photos must be submitted separately in jpg format. MAXIMUM 5 PHOTOS PER ARTICLE<\/li>\n
  6. The editor will not make changes or edit materials already uploaded to the website. Writers must submit\u00a0Only the Final Version<\/em><\/strong><\/span> of their pieces.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Deadline for Submitting Materials<\/strong><\/span>: Saturdays 12-Noon (GMT) to:<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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    TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

    As a nonprofit outlet, TMS provides a platform for exclusive analysis, research and policy comment on local and global affairs without commercial or profit means or objectives. We don’t pay\/charge for any materials or contributions. Our copying\/pasting from other Internet outlets aims at disseminating items we deem relevant for peace and conflict-resolution workers and students. We cover political, economic, social and other subjects such as nonviolence, activism, conflict resolution, mediation–worldwide.<\/p>\n

    Since 2008 TMS Weekly Digest has published tens of thousands of analytical briefs and commentaries with the unique perspective of independent contributors from throughout the planet. TMS works to broaden and diversify expert discussion by focusing on hidden aspects of international politics and out-of-the-box, unconventional thinking that stimulates transcendent solutions and actions. Benefiting from the ever expanding grasp of the Internet, we work exclusively online to spread reliable information, critical thought and progressive ideas.<\/p>\n

    Prof. Johan Galtung writes a monthly editorial providing unique insights, analyses and proposals based on 50 years of research, teaching, mediation and active promotion of peace by peaceful, nonviolent means. He introduced Peace Studies to academic curricula worldwide in the 1950s. The aim of this website is to provide educational materials for better world citizenship without a profit motive.<\/p>\n

    TRANSCEND Media Service<\/em> is a fierce advocate for Peace on the international stage, and has taken strong stands for the oppressed-disenfranchised-bereaved, social-individual justice, human-indigenous-animal rights, Gandhian nonviolent activism, nonviolent conflict resolution, peace by peaceful means.<\/p>\n

    TMS <\/em>stands against oppression-oppressors of all kinds, militarism, armaments-war industry, nuclear weapons, all cases of exploitation of humans-fauna-flora-environment, violent conflict resolution, wars, interventions, invasions, conquests, imperialism, neocolonialism, torture, might makes right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    TRANSCEND International<\/strong> has four pillars:<\/p>\n

    Action, Education\/Training, Dissemination, Research.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n

    TRANSCEND Media Service<\/strong> fulfills the three first functions. It is a medium for TR members to present peace journalism-oriented views, news and analyses in written or video format.<\/p>\n

    TMS<\/strong> is both a service to other media and a medium in its own right. Editorials and articles originated on TMS may be freely reprinted, disseminated, translated and used as background material, provided an acknowledgement and link to the source, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS, is included. Materials originated elsewhere are clearly marked with a Go to Original<\/em> link at the end. We do not use articles or videos attached to a Copyright notice.<\/p>\n

    TRANSCEND International<\/strong> is an experiment in promoting peace by peaceful means throughout the world. Traditionally, institutes have been centered around a building where the people who work together meet on a regular basis. Since many people who share common interests in helping transform conflicts nonviolently and creatively are geographically scattered and cannot usually be physically together, our solution is to create an electronic network of members. This, in addition, diminishes our carbon footprints and contributes to attenuate the global warming crisis.<\/p>\n

    TRANSCEND<\/strong> does mediation and peace-building around the world, with Manuals, a Code of Conduct, and Perspectives with diagnosis, prognosis and therapy for conflicts (see: 50 Years-100 Peace & Conflict Perspectives, TRANSCEND University Press, 2008).<\/p>\n

    It runs:<\/strong><\/p>\n