Opinión Invitada
Friends all over: Happy New Year 2013!
Johan Galtung
With more of our new formula, front page of A
Theory of Peace:
EQUITY X HARMONY
PEACE = -----------------
TRAUMA X CONFLICT
developed in "Peace", Int, Enc, of the
Social Sciences, PM, ATOP.
Permit me a little report on where we are in
TRANSCEND; more on the next page reporting an incredibly challenging fall term.
Transcend Peace Service: Mediation at the micro-meso-macro-mega levels for all four formula
tasks: equity-harmony-conciliation-resolution.
The focus has been on Afghanistan ,
Iran , Israel-Arab states, Syria
Transcend Peace University: A very successful experiment
with a new way of running Advanced Theory of Conflict (and Peace), with a focus
on six modules of current politics and SKYPE to come closer to onsite. Erika is an incredibly competent administrator
of the complexities.
Transcend University Press: Reconciliation, Peace Mathematics (PM) and Peace
Economics (PE) published 2012, A Theory of Peace (ATOP) coming;
selling well outside Europe and in Spanish (Fernando!)--but let us see England end
January; Atlantic College and U. of Liverpool . After all, the language matters. Dieter steers it very competently, indeed.
Transcend Media Service: More used than ever, also by journalists. Antonio has all the concrete
data.
Transcend Research Institute: A home has been found in the Galtung- Institut, Basel Germany
Add
to that the prizes for showing the road to (not yet) peace, and you sense what
I am aiming at: TRANSCEND works, functions.
There is the Johan-Dietrich nucleus, and we will be there for a long
time; but decreasingly indispensable. We
see university courses using "the Hawai'i
So
you will pardon me a sense of "mission accomplished", even if those
words were abused by somebody unmentionable.
I see the end of my books and too much travel; not of mediation and TPU
by SKYPE, nor editorials and research.
But there is also a life outside TRANSCEND and you will increasingly
also find me there, with my beloved Fumi, my always transcending
companion. New Year 2012/13 Much love, Johan Galtung
JOHAN GALTUNG: FALL 2012: 15 CHALLENGES; 15 TMS
EDITORIALS
08/19: Grimstad,
UiA: Hamsun, Ibsen, Verden og Vi: Deres utopier
In tiny Grimstad Ibsen worked in a pharmacy and Hamsun
had his farm, the two greatest Norwegian authors both had world view and
utopias; a great challenge to bridge peace and art spaces to make them visible.
08/31: Kongsvinger:
SABONA: Barnehave, skole, arbeidsliv
Sabona=Transcend in daily life: teachers and children
8-12 learning to handle bullying; kindergarten teachers and children 2-4 to
share toys, to wait for their turn, to use words not fists; couples to relate.
09/05: Charlotte NC: Democratic National Convention US
On the margin of the DNC a forum for what US
09/20-26; 11/7-3: Puebla ,
Mexico DF ComNaPaz; Tucumán,
Buenos Aires
Mediation makes great progress: a National Commission
for Peace is proposed to reduce inequality and fight the drug-violence
industries; proposals for Malvinas ,
Cuba
10/01: UNHRC
Social Forum: People-Centered Dev't and Globalization
Opening the UN Forum with 3 points: lifting the bottom
up with a focus on the most needy in the poorest communities; not touching the
rich, have them join; using six, not only one, models of development.
10/03: Istanbul : Turkey-Cyprus, -Kurds-, -Armenia , -Syria Cyprus and
EU; human rights-autonomies for Kurds in 4 countries making a Kurdistan;
Turks-Kurds apologizing-compensating to Armenians; non-territorial federalism
for Syria
10-04: Istanbul
The 1912-13 wars created a fragmented Balkans that can
be overcome by giving "Balkanization" the positive connotation of
building a region with a Commission for cooperation, reconciliation, and
resolution.
10/04-06: Rhodos, Civ Dia: The Hexagon
USA-EU-Russia-China-India-OIC
NGO cooperation between the Dialogue Forum and
Transcend on training in peace politics and dialogues in Russia
10/07-08: New York ,
Russell Tribunal on Palestine
The case of sociocide--killing
materially-structurally-culturally--not people and nature--was made for the
jury for Israel vs Palestine
10/18: Valencia
Opening the World Mediation Forum with 50 years
negative and positive experiences from micro to mega on equity-harmony-trauma-conflict,
with pointers forward to what is missing: a mediation-solution culture.
10/23: Norrköping,
ESF: Cold War Discourse Switch, and Middle East ?
From "free world" vs
"anti-imperialism" to "nuclear disarmament and human
rights" united movements and ended the Cold War; for West/Islam and
Israel/Palestine how to depolarize discourses constructively.
11/16-17: Virginia Tech: Symposium on
Reconciliation and Resolution
The massive killing horrors beg for conflict
resolution and trauma reconciliation for the USA
12/7-9: Basel TPU:
West/Islam-Africa-GIPSI-Americas-SABONA-West Asia
The last of six modules in a 12 weeks Transcend Peace University
12/12: Basel
12/17: Frankfurt
am Main : Structural Violence and the
Handicapped
How does the hierarchy-polyarchy-equiarchy-anarchy
structural violence and peace typology relate to a typology of handicaps and
wellness?
Johan Galtung.
Fundador de los Estudios científicos
sobre la Paz. Director de Transcend: A Peace and Development Network y Rector
de la Transcend Peace University. Fundador del International Peace Research
Institute de Noruega. Profesor Investigador sobre Conflicto y Paz en la
Universidad de Oslo de 1969 a 1977. Mediador en conflictos internacionales (Sri
Lanka, Afganistán, Ecuador, etc.). Ganador del Premio Nobel Alternativo de la
Paz en 1987 y el Premio Gandhi en 1993. Autor de más de 50 libros y más de
1,000 artículos publicados.
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