{"id":154806,"date":"2020-03-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=154806"},"modified":"2020-03-21T02:15:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T02:15:53","slug":"an-offer-and-an-appeal-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/03\/an-offer-and-an-appeal-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"An Offer and an Appeal to You…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We all have interesting and varied sources of information and analysis. One of the most exciting and insightful that I use and enjoy is TRANSCEND<\/em>, founded by Professor Johann Galtung, the \u201cFather of Peace Studies\u201d and leader of a multi-national group of distinguished academics and activists working for peace in all its forms. The articles analyse world affairs from a multitude of different approaches. The Editor is Brazilian\/Portuguese. Many of the contributors are American or European, but many others are from India, Pakistan, Middle East, Africa, Latin America \u2026 I would like to offer this information source to you and your students.<\/p>\n

A University Education should challenge students to seek out ideas and to discover new sources. When I was teaching undergraduates, I would arrange groups of my students to study the media output on different continents (sometimes in different languages) and present in class the different perspectives of (say) the Latin American and Middle Eastern press, or the French and Indian press, on topical world affairs.\u00a0 Students would present a dossier of regional articles selected by themselves, and be graded on short summaries written about the themes they had chosen. TRANSCEND Media Service<\/em> does some of this preparatory work for your students: they can find many unexpected analyses and varying points of view in a single website.<\/p>\n

— Robin Edward Poulton ChONM, ChROSC, UNSM, MBIM, MA (Hons St A), MSc (Oxon), PhD (Paris), <\/em>
\nChevalier de l’Ordre national du Mali<\/em>
\nCitoyen d’honneur de la Ville de S\u00e9gou<\/em>
\nDocteur en Sciences sociales du d\u00e9veloppement<\/em>
\nMember of TRANSCEND Peace Network<\/em>
\nManaging Partner, EPES Mandala Consulting<\/em>
\nSenior Fellow, UNIDIR Geneva (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research)<\/em>
\nMember of the African Studies Association (ASA) and WARA (West African Studies Ass\u2019n)<\/em>
\nMember, Royal Society for Asian Affairs<\/em>
\nGuest professor, European Peace University (Austria) 2002-2008<\/em>
\nAdjunct Professor, University of Richmond 2001-2007<\/em>
\nVisiting Professor in International Studies 2002-2004 and 2012-2016 at VCU <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TRANSCEND Media Service <\/em>is 100% reader-supported.<\/h3>\n

Please Make Your Contribution Today<\/h2>\n

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We all have interesting and varied sources of information and analysis. One of the most exciting and insightful that I use and enjoy is TRANSCEND Media Service, founded by Professor Johann Galtung, the \u201cFather of Peace Studies\u201d and leader of a multi-national group of distinguished academics and activists working for peace in all its forms. The articles analyse world affairs from a multitude of different approaches. I would like to offer this information source to you and your students. A University Education should challenge students to seek out ideas and to discover new sources. TMS does some of this preparatory work for your students: they can find many unexpected analyses and varying points of view in a single website.
\n— Robin Edward Poulton ChONM, ChROSC, UNSM, MBIM, MA (Hons St A), MSc (Oxon), PhD (Paris)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":116624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154806","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=154806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}