{"id":316445,"date":"2026-05-25T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=316445"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:14:36","slug":"lena-petrova-explores-peace-in-contrast-to-the-omnipresent-military-geopolitical-commenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/05\/lena-petrova-explores-peace-in-contrast-to-the-omnipresent-military-geopolitical-commenting\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Petrova Explores Peace&#8211;in Contrast to the Omnipresent Military Geopolitical Commenting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>18 May 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lena Petrova of <em><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@lenapetrova\" >World Affairs In Context<\/a><\/strong><\/em> with more than half a million subscribers on <em>YouTube<\/em> wanted to explore what a peace researcher like me has to say about, among other things, the <em>First<\/em> and the <em>Second Cold Wars<\/em>\u00a0and why ethics has disappeared from politics, enabling violence to be so accepted.\u00a0I am personally very happy about this conversation, which also yielded an amazing number of very appreciative comments on <em>YouTube<\/em>. No doubt, people are longing for alternatives, including peace perspectives. &#8212; Jan Oberg<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr. Jan Oberg: The REAL Reason U.S. Hegemony Is Collapsing\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5gBFlajY3eE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Jan Oberg, Ph.D. is director of the independent <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/\" >Transnational Foundation for Peace &amp; Future Research-TF<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/\" >F<\/a><em> in Sweden and a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><em>. CV: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/jan-oberg\" ><em>https:\/\/transnational.live\/jan-oberg<\/em><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/\" ><em>https:\/\/transnational.live<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 May 2026 &#8211; Lena Petrova of World Affairs In Context wanted to explore what a peace researcher like me has to say about the Cold Wars and why ethics has disappeared from politics, enabling violence to be so accepted.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[813,1061,1778,725,877,2433,99,2200],"class_list":["post-316445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-cold-war","tag-cold-war-ii","tag-conflict-analysis","tag-culture-of-violence","tag-peace-research","tag-peacebuilding","tag-structural-violence","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316445","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=316445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316448,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316445\/revisions\/316448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}