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Johan Galtung is a distinguished Norwegian scholar, founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies and of TRANSCEND International (www.transcend.org), a conflict resolution network.

Hugo Chavez: A History Maker

A genius makes us think, and act, differently, thereby making history. Chávez was one. Thank you Hugo–may you not rest in peace.…

March 17, 20131 CommentRead More

The U.S. Cliff, Swamp, Quagmire

In the swamp of problems there are bubbles waiting to burst: finance versus real economy, printed money versus real value, debt service versus people service. With sounds of a sucking…

January 9, 2013Comments OffRead More

Iran: An Attack Will Be Disastrous for the Region and the Whole World

Israel can attain a lasting security only through peace with its neighbors, like in a Middle East community of Israel with its five Arab neighbors, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and…

September 5, 201212 CommentsRead More

Afghan and German Deep Cultures at War

Ladies and Gentlemen, This lecture is dedicated to your hero and my personal good friend, Wolf Graf von Baudissin, who coined the term “innere Führung,” or inner steering. My talk…

October 12, 2011Comments OffRead More

Libya: We Have Been Here Before

TRANSCEND Media Service — At the time of writing, what BBC and NATO call the Final Chapter is being written in the Libya-Gaddafi tragedy. Like the final chapter for Yugoslavia-Milosevic,…

August 30, 20112 CommentsRead More

Norway the Victim, Norway the Perpetrator

TRANSCEND Media Service — Anders Breivik was driven by a calling to save Christianity, catholic essentially, from a European civil war with Islam. The message said: Islam enters Europe on…

August 3, 2011Comments OffRead More

The Muslim Community and its Right Place

Transcend Media Service — Pre-Islamic Arabia lived for a long time under various forms of asabiya, which meant chauvinism to the Arab race, to the tribe, or to a clan…

July 20, 20112 CommentsRead More

Aging, Not Overpopulation…

TRANSCEND Media Service, June 13 – Aging, not overpopulation, will be the dominant tendency of the twenty-first century demography, writes Gérard François Dumont in Le Monde Diplomatique in June 2011.…

June 15, 20112 CommentsRead More

What Happened to the Western Left?

Transcend Media Service — The 41st St. Gallen Symposium, an academic version of the Davos World Economic Forum, took place recently (May 12–13, 2011). It was organized by the students…

May 18, 2011Comments OffRead More

Middle East and North Africa: Revolution and Counter-Revolution

Transcend Media Service — Chandra Muzaffar, in his superb JUST Commentary for March 2011, argues for Gaddafi to step down, and adds that if he does, he may be remembered…

April 19, 20119 CommentsRead More

Libya: The War is On

Washington, March 28, 2011 (Transcend Media Service) — A physician who heals only friends, not foes, is no physician, but a party to a war. An organization that protects only…

March 31, 20114 CommentsRead More

Think Cosmically, Act Globally, Eat Locally

TRANSCEND Media Service, Feb. 21 – The above title is the slogan advocated by two University of California Santa Cruz professors, the astrophysicist Joel R. Primack, and his wife, the…

February 22, 20111 CommentRead More

World History Unfolding – What Next?

TRANSCEND Media Service — And then it happened: Mubarak out. Enormous cheers in Tahrir square; Egypt is Free! A historical deed, triggered by Tunisia, carried by a million heroes. Leaderless…

February 14, 20112 CommentsRead More

World History Unfolding

And it happens, right there, for our eyes. The pattern, above all a product of the US-Israel alliance (inspired by Jesaiah 2:1-5), is unraveling. The pattern was always the same, by…

February 1, 20119 CommentsRead More