Johan Galtung

For example, what Johan Galtung, the founder of the Peace Research Institute-Oslo, termed structural violence, which refers to structures and mechanisms that prevent access to basic human needs, is also highly prevalent in Central America. In Guatemala, the threat of physical violence in the form of ...

Their homelessness is a textbook example of structural violence; Johan Galtung wrote a seminal paper on this subject in 1969. For some, homelessness is a long-term problem. For others, it's a few days or weeks couch-surfing or sleeping in a car. Either way, homeless people are not the “other.” In San ...

While conflict theories and resolution processes advanced dramatically during the second half of the 20th century, particularly thanks to the important work of several key scholars such as Professor Johan Galtung – see 'Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means (the Transcend Method)' – significant gaps ...

The race towards establishing a representative democracy often comes at the cost of meaningful participation, further entrenching exclusionary patterns that are the hallmark of what Johan Galtung referred to as structural violence, and which ultimately leads to direct violence. In order to remedy the ...

A sociologist who predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union and 9/11 attacks warns that American global power will collapse under Donald Trump. Johan Galtung, a Norwegian professor at the University of Hawaii and Transcend Peace University, first predicted in 2000 that the “U.S. empire” would wither ...

He said, “An authority on solution to the conflicts in the world, Johan Galtung recently spoke to me from his home, the Port City, Alicante, Spain and explained that the dialogue is the only mechanism to find solution to the Kashmir dispute.” “He was mercifully responding to my query as to what should be ...

... including two Emeritus Professors of Oxford University, Barbara Harriss-White and Barbara Harrell-Bond, Princeton University Professor Richard Falk, MIT Professor and linguist Noam Chomsky, Columbia Professor Gayatri Spivak, eminent peace scholar Johan Galtung, Queen Mary University of London ...

In the 1990s, the Norwegian sociologist and mathematician Johan Galtung formally named this phenomenon "culltural violence." This is understood today to be a sum of social norms, practices, and beliefs that promote violence as an adequate means of resolving conflicts, in place of the traditional ...

Meanwhile over 80 scholars, activists and public intellectuals including Gayatri Spivak, Noam Chomsky, Johan Galtung, Gregory Stanton, and Barbara Harrel-Bond have publicly sent a letter of concern to the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, Louise Richardson, an expert on terrorism, regarding Oxford ...

The Jefferson School recently hosted the NewGen Peace Builders program, which introduced local high school students to conflict resolution techniques developed by Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung. According to Galtung, effective “peace building” requires changes in attitude to promote empathy, ...

... of Oxford in the United Kingdom; Barbara Harriss-White, a professor emeritus at the University of Oxford; Ritu Dewan, vice president of the Indian Society of Labour Economics; Prof Gregory Stanton, founding chairman of Genocide Watch in the US; Johan Galtung, founder of Peace Studies; Youk Chhang, ...

Sociologist Johan Galtung, who accurately predicted in 1980 that the Soviet Union would fall within 10 years, forecast in 2000 that the U.S. empire would similarly collapse within 25 years. Before this collapse, Galtung said, the U.S. would go through a period of reactionary fascism, which he described more ...