{"id":86004,"date":"2017-01-30T12:01:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=86004"},"modified":"2018-10-13T11:30:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T10:30:40","slug":"glenn-d-paige-28-jun-1929-22-jan-2017-a-giant-for-peace-leaves-behind-an-indelible-mark-in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/01\/glenn-d-paige-28-jun-1929-22-jan-2017-a-giant-for-peace-leaves-behind-an-indelible-mark-in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn D. Paige (28 Jun 1929 \u2013 22 Jan 2017): A Giant for Peace Leaves Behind an Indelible Mark – In Memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prof. Glenn Paige<\/p><\/div>\n

Dear Glenn, dear Glenda–there is so much to remember, to praise.<\/p>\n

His transformation from praising a killing society, USA, in the Korean War to invoking a non-killing society did not come easily. To revoke his own book on the Korea War decision, and the prize received for that book, has few equals. He compared a decision taken far away with what happened on the ground in what became his beloved Korea.\u00a0 Very scientific, theory with data, and found the theory totally wrong. He generalized from what he had learnt, to a non-killing society<\/em>, finding one kind of killing leading to the other.\u00a0 And built the second part of his life around the negation of the first part, at all levels, in UN organizations as resolutions as an NGO, personally.<\/p>\n

Of course he and I had very many dialogues about that, both of us respecting fully the position of the other.\u00a0 He stood for what I call “negative peace”; in favor of positive peace, but let us start here.\u00a0 That perspective had been missing, he filled a gap, seeing killing as something that could be reduced, eliminated, between persons, groups, states, states and individuals–the death penalty!–groups and states–revolutions, coups–inter-state, inter-regions.<\/p>\n

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Prof Glenn D Paige Recipient, Jamnalal Bajaj Awards 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

A heroic position in the world’s most violent society, adding the violences from suicide via partner to general homicide, against groups defined by gender, generation, race, class, nation, inside, outside, the countless wars, and the war on nature. Yin\/Yang Hawai’i and the university accommodated Glenn while at the same time becoming ever more militarized. Glenn stood like a lighthouse in those dark waters.<\/p>\n

That light will continue shining. Highly competent academically, at home in East Asian cultures, he was also source of learning.<\/p>\n

Dear Glenn, long will you live in your many friends and others, and your ideas will gain strength and enrich humanity. Thanks, Glenn.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Durland Paige<\/em> was an American political scientist, member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>, Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Hawai\u2018i<\/a>, and Chair of the Governing Council of the Center for Global Nonkilling<\/a>. Paige was known for developing the concept of nonkilling, his studies on political leadership, and the study of international politics from the decision-making perspective with a case study of President Harry S. Truman’s decision to involve the United States in the Korean War<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a> and rector of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU<\/a>. Prof. Galtung <\/em>has published 1670\u00a0articles\u00a0and book\u00a0chapters, over 450 Editorials for <\/em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a>, and 167 books on peace and related issues<\/em>, of which 41 have been translated into 35 languages, for a total of 135 book translations<\/em>, including \u2018<\/em>50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives<\/a>,\u2019 published by the <\/em>TRANSCEND University Press-TUP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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