{"id":24272,"date":"2012-12-31T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=24272"},"modified":"2016-02-20T12:39:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T12:39:20","slug":"to-friends-all-over-happy-new-year-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/12\/to-friends-all-over-happy-new-year-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"To Friends All Over: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/happy-holidays.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24383\" src=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/happy-holidays.jpg\" alt=\"happy holidays\" width=\"291\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With more of our new formula, front page of <i>A Theory of Peace<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0EQUITY x HARMONY<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PEACE = &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0TRAUMA x CONFLICT<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">developed in &#8220;Peace&#8221;, Int, Enc, of the Social Sciences, PM, ATOP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Permit me a little report on where we are in TRANSCEND; reporting an incredibly challenging fall term.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>Transcend Peace Service<\/i>: Mediation at the micro-meso-macro-mega levels for all four formula tasks: equity-harmony-conciliation-resolution.\u00a0 The focus has been on Afghanistan, Iran, Israel-Arab states, Syria. Fernando Montiel, Tats Arai, Cesar Villanueva, Emma Leslie do terrific jobs, to mention some, and, indeed, the SABONA team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>Transcend Peace University<\/i>:\u00a0 A very successful experiment with a new way of running Advanced Theory of Conflict (and Peace), with a focus on six modules of current politics and SKYPE to come closer to onsite.\u00a0 Erika is an incredibly competent administrator of the complexities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>Transcend University Press: Reconciliation, Peace Mathematics (PM<\/i>) and <i>Peace Economics<\/i> (PE) published 2012, <i>A Theory of Peace<\/i> (ATOP) coming; selling well outside Europe and in Spanish (Fernando!)&#8211;but let us see England end January; Atlantic College and U. of Liverpool.\u00a0 After all, the language matters.\u00a0 Dieter steers it very competently, indeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>Transcend Media Service<\/i>: More used than ever, also by journalists. Antonio has all the concrete data (since start in 2008):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8,648 posts<\/li>\n<li>1,913 comments by readers<\/li>\n<li>2,000 subscribers to the TMS Weekly Digest<\/li>\n<li>4,500 followers to Facebook&#8217;s Pages (Johan Galtung and TRANSCEND)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Last 30 days:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Visitors:<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>15886<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Unique visitors:<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>14888<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Page views:<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>25133 (\u00d8 2.3)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Max. page views in one visit:<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>119<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Total time spent:<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>414h 14m 57s<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>Transcend Research Institute<\/i>: A home has been found in the Galtung- Institut, Basel Germany, also for the huge Hexagon Project, with Gerd Junne as a very important contributor.\u00a0 Naakow, the director, is very entrepreneurial and innovative intellectually at the same time, with Erika, Benno, Karoline and more; also working on our economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Add to that the prizes for showing the road to (not yet) peace, and you sense what I am aiming at: TRANSCEND works, functions.\u00a0 There is the Johan-Dietrich nucleus, and we will be there for a long time; but decreasingly indispensable.\u00a0 We see university courses using &#8220;the Hawai&#8217;i model&#8221; (used by EPU and WPA) all over, mediation more or less using the Transcend approach; dispersed, decentralized, as ought to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So you will pardon me a sense of &#8220;mission accomplished&#8221;, even if those words were abused by somebody unmentionable.\u00a0 I see the end of my books and too much travel; not of mediation and TPU by SKYPE, nor editorials and research.\u00a0 But there is also a life outside TRANSCEND and you will increasingly also find me there, with my beloved Fumi, my always transcending companion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">New Year 2012\/13\u00a0 <i>Much love<\/i>,\u00a0 Johan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><i>Johan Galtung<\/i><\/strong>: <b>FALL 2012: 15 CHALLENGES; 15 TMS EDITORIALS<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">08\/19: <i>Grimstad, UiA: Hamsun, Ibsen, Verden og Vi: Deres utopier<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In tiny Grimstad Ibsen worked in a pharmacy and Hamsun had his farm, the two greatest Norwegian authors both had world view and utopias; a great challenge to bridge peace and art spaces to make them visible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">08\/31: <i>Kongsvinger: SABONA: Barnehave, skole, arbeidsliv<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sabona=Transcend in daily life: teachers and children 8-12 learning to handle bullying; kindergarten teachers and children 2-4 to share toys, to wait for their turn, to use words not fists; couples to relate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">09\/05: <i>Charlotte NC: Democratic National Convention US Peace Policy<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On the margin of the DNC a forum for what US peace policy might look like and what stands in the way, including an analysis of the huge Muslim diaspora in the world in general, and USA-Europe in particular.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">09\/20-26; 11\/7-3: <i>Puebla, Mexico DF ComNaPaz; Tucum\u00e1n, Buenos Aires<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mediation makes great progress: a National Commission for Peace is proposed to reduce inequality and fight the drug-violence industries; proposals for Malvinas, Cuba normalization, drug legalization and OAS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">10\/01: <i>UNHRC Social Forum: People-Centered Dev&#8217;t and Globalization<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Opening the UN Forum with 3 points: lifting the bottom up with a focus on the most needy in the poorest communities; not touching the rich, have them join; using six, not only one, models of development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">10\/03: <i>Istanbul: Turkey-Cyprus, -Kurds-, -Armenia, -Syria: What?<\/i>Equality for Greece-Turkey in Cyprus and EU; human rights-autonomies for Kurds in 4 countries making a Kurdistan; Turks-Kurds apologizing-compensating to Armenians; non-territorial federalism for Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">10-04: <i>Istanbul: Balkan Wars at 100; And Good Neighborhood?<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 1912-13 wars created a fragmented Balkans that can be overcome by giving &#8220;Balkanization&#8221; the positive connotation of building a region with a Commission for cooperation, reconciliation, and resolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">10\/04-06: <i>Rhodos, Civ Dia: The Hexagon USA-EU-Russia-China-India-OIC<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">NGO cooperation between the Dialogue Forum and Transcend on training in peace politics and dialogues in Russia as a possible region?\u00a0 What can\u00a0 the 6 poles in the Hexagon learn from each other positively?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">10\/07-08: <i>New York, Russell Tribunal on Palestine: On Sociocide<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The case of sociocide&#8211;killing materially-structurally-culturally&#8211;not people and nature&#8211;was made for the jury for Israel vs Palestine; including the possibility of Israeli committing sui-sociocide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">10\/18:<i>Valencia, Foro Mundial Mediaci\u00f3n: 50 a\u00f1os de experiencias<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Opening the World Mediation Forum with 50 years negative and positive experiences from micro to mega on equity-harmony-trauma-conflict, with pointers forward to what is missing: a mediation-solution culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">10\/23: <i>Norrk\u00f6ping, ESF: Cold War Discourse Switch, and Middle East?<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">From &#8220;free world&#8221; vs &#8220;anti-imperialism&#8221; to &#8220;nuclear disarmament <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> human rights&#8221; united movements and ended the Cold War; for West\/Islam and Israel\/Palestine how to depolarize discourses constructively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">11\/16-17: <i>Virginia Tech: Symposium on Reconciliation and Resolution<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The massive killing horrors beg for conflict resolution and trauma reconciliation for the USA as a whole.\u00a0 Keynotes and workshops dealt with this in detail; as underdog revolts with a mental dimension.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">12\/7-9: <i>Basel TPU: West\/Islam-Africa-GIPSI-Americas-SABONA-West Asia<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The last of six modules in a 12 weeks Transcend Peace University experimental course online <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> onsite, with SKYPE between resource persons and participants, and six collective solution-oriented papers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">12\/12: <i>Basel Galtung-Institut: Wider den Anti-Semitismus<\/i>: we need academic, and speech, freedom for constructive discourses to fight anti-Semitism, to explain, to prevent and to learn, also for Israel-Palestine and nazism-Hitler-WWII; not discourse control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">12\/17: <i>Frankfurt am Main: Structural Violence and the Handicapped<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How does the hierarchy-polyarchy-equiarchy-anarchy structural violence and peace typology relate to a typology of handicaps and wellness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permit me a little report on where we are in TRANSCEND. 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