{"id":204935,"date":"2022-02-14T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=204935"},"modified":"2022-02-10T09:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T09:48:44","slug":"can-peace-be-researched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/02\/can-peace-be-researched\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Peace Be Researched?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revisiting a 55-Year-Old TV Program<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

13 Dec 2021 – <\/em>I was reminded recently that a 55-year-old TV program about PRIO and peace research is currently available on the website of NRK, Norway\u2019s public radio and TV company. You can access it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Johan Galtung in the TV programme from 1966.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The two-part program was broadcast on 18 and 25 October 1966. NRK does not have any information about when it was shot, but papers in PRIO\u2019s old files indicate that it was probably earlier in the fall, while a long sequence from an inter-nation simulation exercise was recorded in the spring the same year [1].<\/p>\n

The program is moderated by Mette Janson<\/a> with extensive narration by PRIO\u2019s founder and then director, Johan Galtung<\/a>.<\/span> It provides a broad and informative overview of PRIO\u2019s research agenda in the early years. Except for a short interview in English with Malvern Lumsden<\/a>, it\u2019s all in Norwegian, of course.<\/p>\n

A number of participants are named in the program, but many are not, and NRK has no additional names on file. I have been able to identify most of them (see footnote 1). And in case you wonder, I appear anonymously as the editor of World Times<\/em> in the simulation sequence at 21:40 into the second part.<\/p>\n

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