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Johan Galtung
Johan Vincent Galtung was a Norwegian sociologist and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. He was the main founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 1959 and was its first director until 1970. He also established the Journal of Peace Research in 1964.
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science · Norwegian sociologist and peace scholar (1930–2024) · mathematician · political scientist · sociologist · university teacher · writer · also Johan Galtung, Galtung
Born 24 October 1930 · Died 17 February 2024 · Q326830
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2024· 4 entries
rabble: Johan Galtung and Aaron Bushnell dedicated their lives to protesting war
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Died 2024-02-17.
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The University of Pisa journal Scienza e Pace dedicated a special issue to his life, work and intellectual legacy
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (2017).
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2016· 1 entry
Galtung revised forward his theory of American global power decline, citing Trump's deportation policy and critical views of NATO would accelerate it
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2014· 1 entry
Was appointed the first Tun Mahathir Professor of Global Peace at the International Islamic University Malaysia
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2012· 2 entries
Al Jazeera English: Johan Galtung
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That structural violence has been the key influence in the nature and distribution of extreme suffering in India, driven by the Indian state in its alleged corruption, overly bureaucratic standards of governance used to
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Erik Bye's Memorial Prize (2011).
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2010· 1 entry
Democracy Now: Johan Galtung on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mideast Peace Talks, and Why Obama Is Losing His Base
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2005· 1 entry
Steven Wright made the case for Peacekeeping efforts to be regarded as violence due to increasing use of techniques such as pre-interrogation treatment, and the use of non-lethal weapons such as tear gas for crowd disper
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2004· 1 entry
Galtung predicted that the US empire will "decline and fall" by 2020
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Alicante (2002).
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Prices of the Norwegian Association of Sociology (2001).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Brage Prize for non-fiction (2000).
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Jamnalal Bajaj Award (1993).
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Co-founded TRANSCEND: A Peace Development Environment Network
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1990· 1 entry
Some of the most notable of which are listed below
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Humanist Prize (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Right Livelihood Award (1987).
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1977· 1 entry
And thereafter held professorships at several other universities; from 1993 to 2000 he taught as Distinguished Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi
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1973· 1 entry
Galtung criticised the "structural fascism" of the US and other Western countries that make war to secure materials and markets, stating: "Such an economic system is called capitalism, and when it's spread in this way to
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1972· 1 entry
For "break[ing] free of imperialism's iron grip"
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1969· 2 entries
Was appointed to the world's first chair in peace and conflict studies, at the University of Oslo
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Left PRIO for a position as professor of peace and conflict research at the University of Oslo, a position he held until 1978
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1964· 1 entry
Galtung led PRIO to establish the first academic journal devoted to Peace Studies: the Journal of Peace Research
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1959· 1 entry
Galtung returned to Oslo, where he founded the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
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1956· 1 entry
And criticized his description in 1974 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov as "persecuted elite personages"
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1930· 1 entry
Born 1930-10-24.
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1899· 1 entry
By Jane Addams (in her 1907 book she switched to calling it 'newer ideals of peace' but continued to contrast them to the term negative peace), and in 1963 in the letter from a Birmingham jail by Martin Luther King Jr
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