{"id":255979,"date":"2024-03-11T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=255979"},"modified":"2024-02-28T04:42:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T04:42:35","slug":"johan-galtung-father-of-peace-and-conflict-studies-dies-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/03\/johan-galtung-father-of-peace-and-conflict-studies-dies-at-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Johan Galtung, &#8220;Father of Peace and Conflict Studies,&#8221; Dies at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"summary\">\n<p><em>17 Feb 2024 &#8211; <\/em>Norwegian sociologist and mathematician, Galtung is a principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies and author of many (170+) books, including <em>The Fall of the US Empire\u2014And Then What?<\/em> and <em>Peace Mathematics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/appearances\/johan_galtung?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&amp;utm_campaign=bb2e684940-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_fa2346a853-bb2e684940-190272849\" >Click to Watch Videos by Democracy NOW! throughout the Years<\/a><\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/johan-galtung-fossati.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-255411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/johan-galtung-fossati-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND International<\/em><\/a><em> and rector of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tpu\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Peace University<\/em><\/a><em>. 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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=1\" ><em>50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives<\/em><\/a><em> published by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND University Press<\/em><\/a><em>. His book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=46\" ><em>Transcend and Transform<\/em><\/a><em>, was translated to 25 languages. He has published more than 1700 articles\u00a0and book\u00a0chapters and over 500 Editorials for <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/em><\/a><em>. More<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/galtung\/\" ><em> information about Prof. Galtung<\/em><\/a><em> and <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/galtung\/#publications\" ><em>all of his publications<\/em><\/a><em> can be found at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/galtung\/\" ><em>transcend.org\/galtung<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/em>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to Watch Videos by Democracy NOW! throughout the Years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[900,260,809,1142],"class_list":["post-255979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-biography","tag-history","tag-johan-galtung","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255979","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=255979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255984,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255979\/revisions\/255984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}