{"id":255599,"date":"2024-02-26T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=255599"},"modified":"2024-02-24T04:34:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T04:34:18","slug":"the-peace-trinity-in-memory-of-prof-johan-galtung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/02\/the-peace-trinity-in-memory-of-prof-johan-galtung\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peace Trinity (In Memory of Prof. Johan Galtung)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pic-johan-galtung-BW-e1662179931258.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-206845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pic-johan-galtung-BW-204x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Trinity holds sway on the Earth,<br \/>\nOf examples there\u2019s no dearth.<br \/>\nFather, Son and Holy Ghost,<br \/>\nAnitya, Duhkha, Anatman course,<br \/>\nBrahma, Vishnu and Shiva here<br \/>\nAre Generator, Operator and Destroyer.<br \/>\nDivine threes induce political trios<br \/>\nMarx, Engels and Lenin ethos.<br \/>\nPolitical threesomes beget economic tri<br \/>\nWhere everything\u2019s measured three by;<br \/>\nClassic PDC to Contemporary LPG,<br \/>\nThe story of Northern Domination Trilogy.<br \/>\nPeace too has a trinity<br \/>\nThat may go into eternity.<br \/>\nThree G\u2019s have no faulting:<br \/>\nGod, Gandhi and Galtung.<br \/>\nGenerator, Operator and Destroyer, GOD,<br \/>\nThat\u2019s Conflict, life and future goad.<br \/>\nPeace we need and not pieces,<br \/>\nProgress as Nature pleases.<br \/>\nEnd never Justifies the means,<br \/>\nTruth never comes from evil deeds.<br \/>\nEye for an Eye makes no sense,<br \/>\nAs all of it will become nonsense.<br \/>\nAll these Gandhian dictums<br \/>\nInspire Galtungian theorems:<br \/>\nPeace from peaceful means,<br \/>\nWith DPT peaceworker builds.<br \/>\nTranscend conflict by all means,<br \/>\nDialogue and negotiate all needs.<br \/>\nPeace does not befall on you<br \/>\nSeek for it and strive for it,<br \/>\nStand to gain from all of it<br \/>\nOf the three G-formula<br \/>\nGOD, Gandhi and Galtung:<br \/>\nGo, Get, Grow!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>PDC:<\/strong> Production, Distribution, Consumption<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>LPG:<\/strong> Liberalization, Privatization, Globalization<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>DPT:<\/strong> Diagnosis, Prognosis, Therapy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>_________________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sp-udayakumar-kudankulam-e1545648300336.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-51588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sp-udayakumar-kudankulam-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>S.P. Udayakumar, Ph.D. &#8211; Tamil Nadu, India (<\/em><a href=\"mailto:spudayakumar@gmail.com\"><em>spudayakumar@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><em>):<\/em><br \/>\n<em>* SACCER-South Asian Community Center for Education and Research (promoting life-long, life-wide and life-deep education)<\/em><em><br \/>\n* <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Network<\/em><\/a><em>, South Asia Convener (TSA) (For Rethinking South Asia)<\/em><em><br \/>\n* People&#8217;s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)<br \/>\n* National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements (NAAM) (For a Nuclear-Free India that has No Deals, No Mines, No Reactors, No Dumps, and No Bombs)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity holds sway on the Earth,<br \/>\nOf examples there\u2019s no dearth.<br \/>\nFather, Son and Holy Ghost,<br \/>\nAnitya, Duhkha, Anatman course,<br \/>\nBrahma, Vishnu and Shiva here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":51588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[809,1142,868],"class_list":["post-255599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-johan-galtung","tag-obituary","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255599","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=255599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255603,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255599\/revisions\/255603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}