{"id":100283,"date":"2017-10-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=100283"},"modified":"2017-10-15T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T10:45:15","slug":"prof-johan-galtung-born-24-oct-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/10\/prof-johan-galtung-born-24-oct-1930\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Johan Vincent Galtung, dr, dr hc mult, a professor of peace studies, was born in Oslo, Norway on the same day that the UN would come to existence 15 years later. He is a mathematician\u2013his first Ph.D.\u2013, sociologist, political scientist and the founder of the academic disciplines of Peace and Conflict Studies. He founded the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (1959), the world\u2019s first academic research center focused on peace studies, as well as the influential Journal of Peace Research<\/em> (1964). He has helped found dozens of other peace centers around the world since.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He has served as a professor for peace studies at universities all over the world, including Columbia (New York), Oslo, Berlin, Belgrade, Paris, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Sichuan, Ritsumeikan (Japan), Princeton, Hawai\u2019i, Tromsoe, Bern, Alicante (Spain), Islamic University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, and dozens of others on all continents. He has taught thousands of individuals and motivated them to dedicate their lives to the promotion of peace and the satisfaction of basic human needs.<\/p>\n

He has mediated in over 100 conflicts between states, nations, religions, civilizations, communities, and persons since 1957. His contributions to peace theory and practice include conceptualization of peace-building, conflict mediation, reconciliation, nonviolence, theory of structural violence, theorizing about negative vs. positive peace, peace education and peace journalism. Prof. Galtung\u2019s unique imprint on the study of conflict and peace stems from a combination of systematic scientific inquiry and a Gandhian ethics of peaceful means and harmony.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The first question Naakow Grant-Hayford ever asked Johan Galtung: \u201cDo you have the feeling that your work has been in vain? With all the wars still ongoing right now all over the world, after 50 years of continuous work for peace, I can imagine that you must be very depressed.<\/em>\u201d His answer was, as always, straight to the point, incisive:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI am not sure you have ever read any of my work when you ask this kind of question. My point is to deal with conflicts when and where you are asked to work on them. Whoever spoke of working on the whole world in one go? I have never been an advocate of world-saving narratives. The point about my work is to identify the neuralgic, specific contradiction in a specific place in space and at a specific moment in time and dissolve the contradiction with conflict transformation in order to prevent an escalation of whatever social contradiction one is dealing with into violence, whether direct or structural. To ask me whether I want to save the world is to have understood nothing about how conflict transformation works in practice. It\u2019s like suggesting that a brain surgeon would want to extract a patient\u2019s entire brain instead of working on the specific complication identified and localized in a specific region of the cerebral cortex. No, that is no way to proceed. One identifies concrete underlying contradictions in the social system at hand, then one identifies the causes, its drivers, and strives to undo the harm and hurt that could result from it by nonviolent means. I am not concerned with saving the world \u2013 I am concerned with finding solutions to specific conflicts before they become violent.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Johan Galtung Park ‘por la Paz’ in Alfaz del Pi, Benidorm, Spain where he resides.<\/p><\/div>\n

Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi\u2019s Political Ethics<\/em>, together with his mentor, Arne N\u00e6ss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.<\/p>\n

As a recipient of over a dozen honorary doctorates and professorships and many other distinctions, including a Right Livelihood Award (also known as Alternative Nobel Peace Prize), Johan Galtung remains committed to the study and promotion of peace.<\/p>\n

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Johan Galtung receives Doctor Honoris Causa – Madrid 27 Jan 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2008 he founded and writes a weekly editorial for the pioneering TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS<\/a> website, which features Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism.<\/p>\n

He is founder (in 2000) and rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University<\/a>, the world\u2019s first online Peace Studies University. He also founded in 1993 TRANSCEND International,<\/a> a global nonprofit network for Peace, Development and the Environment, with over 500 members in more than 70 countries around the world. As a testimony to his legacy, peace studies are now taught and researched at universities across the globe and contribute to peacemaking efforts in conflicts around the world. In 2008, he founded the TRANSCEND University Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Johan Galtung has conducted a great deal of research in many fields and made original contributions not only to peace studies but also, among others, human rights, basic needs, development strategies, a world economy that sustains life, macro-history, theory of civilizations, federalism, globalization, theory of discourse, social pathologies, deep culture, peace and religions, social science methodology, sociology, ecology, future studies.<\/p>\n

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Abdul Ghaffar Khan International Peace-Builder Award from Brookings Institution to Prof. Johan Galtung<\/p><\/div>\n

He is author or co-author of more than 1600 articles and over 160 books on peace and related issues, including Peace By Peaceful Means<\/em> (1996), Macrohistory and Macrohistorians <\/em>(with Sohail Inayatullah, 1997), Conflict Transformation By Peaceful Means<\/em> (1998), Johan uten land<\/em> (autobiography, 2000), Transcend & Transform: An Introduction to Conflict Work<\/em> (2004, in 25 languages), 50 Years \u2013 100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives<\/em> (2008), Democracy \u2013 Peace \u2013 Development<\/em> (with Paul Scott, 2008), 50 Years \u2013 25 Intellectual Landscapes Explored <\/em>(2008), Globalizing God <\/em>(with Graeme MacQueen, 2008), The Fall of the US Empire \u2013 And Then What<\/em> (2009), Peace Business (with Jack Santa Barbara and Fred Dubee, 2009), A Theory of Conflict<\/em> (2010), A Theory of Development<\/em> (2010), Reporting Conflict: New Directions in Peace Journalism<\/em> (with Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick, 2010), Korea: The Twisting Roads to Unification<\/em> (with Jae-Bong Lee, 2011), Reconciliation<\/em> (with Joanna Santa Barbara and Diane Perlman, 2012), Peace Mathematics<\/em> (with Dietrich Fischer, 2012), Peace Economics<\/em> (2012), A Theory of Civilization<\/em> (forthcoming 2013), and A Theory of Peace<\/em> (forthcoming 2013).<\/p>\n

Johan Galtung\u00a0has published, so far, 1670\u00a0articles\u00a0and book\u00a0chapters, over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a>, and 170 books on peace and related issues, of which 41 have been translated into 35 languages, for a total of 135 book translations.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CHECK ALSO: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johan_Galtung<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Antonio Carlos da Silva Rosa, born 1946, is founder-editor of the pioneering Peace Journalism website, <\/em>TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS<\/a> (from 2008), an assistant to Prof. Johan Galtung, Secretary of the International Board of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, and recipient of the <\/em>Psychologists for Social Responsibility\u2019s<\/em><\/strong> 2017 Anthony J. Marsella Prize<\/a> for the Psychology of Peace and Social Justice<\/em>.<\/em><\/strong> He completed the required coursework for a Ph.D. in Political Science-Peace Studies (1994), has a Masters in Political Science-International Relations (1990), and a B.A. in Communication (1988) from the University of Hawai\u2019i<\/a>. Originally from Brazil, he lives presently in Porto, Portugal. Antonio was educated in the USA where he lived for 20 years; in Europe-India since 1994. <\/em>Books: <\/strong><\/em>Peace Journalism: 80 Galtung Editorials on War and Peace<\/a> (editor)<\/em> – Cobertura de Conflitos: Jornalismo para a Paz<\/a> (from Johan Galtung, translation to Portuguese)<\/em> – Transcender e Transformar: Uma Introdu\u00e7\u00e3o ao Trabalho de Conflitos<\/a> (from Johan Galtung, translation to Portuguese). <\/em>TMS articles by Antonio HERE<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi\u2019s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne N\u00e6ss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}