{"id":180621,"date":"2021-03-15T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=180621"},"modified":"2021-03-08T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T09:51:04","slug":"q-if-conflict-is-an-inherent-aspect-of-life-how-do-we-know-when-weve-achieved-positive-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/03\/q-if-conflict-is-an-inherent-aspect-of-life-how-do-we-know-when-weve-achieved-positive-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: &#8220;If conflict is an inherent aspect of life, how do we know when we\u2019ve achieved positive peace?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A: \u201c<\/strong><em>Conflict<\/em> does not mean <em>violence. <\/em>It means<em> incompatible goals <\/em>that <em>may<\/em> <em>lead<\/em> to violence. <em>Conflict solution<\/em>=<em>making incompatible goals compatible;\u00a0<\/em>it may avoid violence and lead to positive, cooperative peace for mutual and added benefits to all parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExample:\u00a0A Ukrainian federation\u00a0with\u00a0Ukrainians ruling majority Ukrainian population, and Russians govern majority Russian parts\u2014if possible with two presidents: the Roman Empire\u00a0<em>biconsular solution<\/em>.\u00a0 Ukrainians or Russians ruling the whole territory constitutes <em>Structural Violence<\/em> that may, and does, lead to <em>Direct Violence<\/em>.\u00a0History stores huge amounts of conflicts, solutions and violence.\u00a0 A wise person once said: \u201c<em>Who fails to learn from history is doomed to relive it.<\/em>&#8221; (Maybe not quite; could be worse).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>__________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/johan-galtung.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-158535 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/johan-galtung-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><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","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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":158535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2255],"class_list":["post-180621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorable-quotes","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180621","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=180621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}