{"id":179495,"date":"2021-02-22T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=179495"},"modified":"2021-02-17T07:52:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T07:52:27","slug":"to-me-peace-is-something-we-create-and-often-in-new-ways-not-to-be-frozen-into-a-handbook-of-law-although-the-law-could-also-be-useful-as-one-guide-among-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/02\/to-me-peace-is-something-we-create-and-often-in-new-ways-not-to-be-frozen-into-a-handbook-of-law-although-the-law-could-also-be-useful-as-one-guide-among-many\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTo me, peace is something we create and often in new ways, not to be frozen into a handbook of law&#8211;although the law could also be useful as one guide among many.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND International<\/a><em> and rector of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tpu\/\" >TRANSCEND Peace University<\/a><em>. <\/em><em>He was awarded among others the 1987 Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize.<\/em> <em>Galtung\u00a0has mediated in\u00a0over 150 conflicts in more than 150 countries, and written more than 170 books on peace and related issues<\/em>,<em> 96 as the sole author. More than 40 have been translated to other languages, including <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=1\" >50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives<\/a><em> published by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/\" >TRANSCEND University Press<\/a><em>. His book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=46\" >Transcend and Transform<\/a>, <em>was translated to 25 languages<\/em>.<em> He has published more than 1700 articles\u00a0and book\u00a0chapters and over 500 Editorials for <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/\" >TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a>.<em> More<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/galtung\/\" > information about Prof. Galtung<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/galtung\/#publications\" >all of his publications<\/a> can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/galtung\/\" >transcend.org\/galtung<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/johan-galtung.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-151669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/johan-galtung-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/johan-galtung-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/johan-galtung.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of TRANSCEND International and rector of TRANSCEND Peace University. He was awarded among others the 1987 Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize. Galtung\u00a0has mediated in\u00a0over 150 conflicts in more than 150 countries, and written more than 170 books on peace and related issues, 96 as the sole author. More than 40 have been translated to other languages, including 50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives published by TRANSCEND University Press. His book, Transcend and Transform, was translated to 25 languages. He has published more than 1,700 articles\u00a0and book\u00a0chapters and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":151669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[809,2255],"class_list":["post-179495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorable-quotes","tag-johan-galtung","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179495","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=179495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}