Health and Development in Norway (2018)

The manuscript of this book was completed during the summer of 1986, but for various reasons was never published. During the fall of 2017 the authors met in Spain to discuss the possibility [...]

50 Years - 100 Peace & Conflict Perspectives (2008)

Fifty years ago, in 1958, Galtung was for the first time in a mediation situation. The conflict was between black and white over desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Since [...]

Democracy - Peace - Development (2008)

This book, jointly offered by Johan V. Galtung and Paul D. Scott, explores the ideas and ideals of democracy as they relate to peace and development. Part II examines the triad [...]

50 Years - 25 Intellectual Landscapes Explored (2008)

Fifty years ago, in 1958, Galtung gave the first course in Conflict and Peace Studies at Columbia University, New York. But the decision to develop peace studies was taken in 1951 [...]

Globalizing God - Religion, Spirituality and Peace (2008)

This book, jointly authored by Johan Galtung and Graeme MacQueen, explores how religion, and specific religions, relate to spirituality - an inner sense of something beyond our selves - and peace, [...]

The Fall of the US Empire - And Then What? (2009)

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Successors, Regionalization or Globalization? US Fascism or US Blossoming?

This book explores the why, how, when and where of the present decline and fall of the US Empire, based on a [...]

Peace Business - Humans and Nature Above Markets and Capital (2009)

This book explores how business can be run so as to serve peace, by reducing direct, structural and cultural violence and by meeting basic needs of all humans, building equitable relations [...]

A Theory Of Conflict (2010)

In conflict theory there is a mainstream narrative I:

• Problem: there are evil forces out there waiting for their time
• When time comes their evil is articulated as violence
• Remedy: be strong [...]

A Theory Of Development (2010)

In mainstream development theory there is a narrative:

• Problem: The difference & deficits in what MDCs have and LDCs have not
• Direct violence arises out of envy as the MDCs advance further
• Remedy: The [...]

A Theory Of Civilization - Overcoming Cultural Violence (2014)

In civilization theory there is a mainstream narrative:

• Problem: There are culturally advanced and backward classes-regions
• The advanced will advance further and the backward remain backward
• Remedy: Backward [...]

A Theory Of Peace - Building Direct-Structural-Cultural Peace (2012)

In peace theory there is a mainstream narrative:

• Problem: There are dangerous and unruly classes and countries
• If let loose life becomes brutish, nasty and short for all
• Remedy: Economic-military-political-cultural rule by rules
• If vertical [...]

Archetypes of War and Peace (2011)

RECONCILIATION: Clearing the Past, Building a Future (2012)

This book is directed to those who carry out reconciliations, or assist others to do so. It is a manual for practitioners, and an examination of theory in reconciliation. It will [...]

Deep Culture, Deep Structure, Deep Nature (2017)

Three Pillars of Peace Theory and Peace Practice

by Johan Galtung

There is a level of understanding below the empirical our senses have encountered, the factually existing, knowledge. It could be repressed knowledge we [...]

Peace Economics - From a Killing to a Living Economy (2012)

The Quest for Peace in Islamic Tradition (2013)

by Abbas Aroua, with a foreword by Johan Galtung

This contribution from an insider Muslim author provides peace workers with a few resources from Islamic tradition that could be used when addressing [...]

Peace Mathematics (2012)

The South Shaping the Global Future (2014)

This monograph offers a broad overview of six decades of a long and continuing South-North development encounter in the United Nations. It is intended especially for the young and students in [...]

Abolishing War - Criminalizing War, Removing War Causes, Removing War as Institution (2015)

Johan Galtung with Erika Degortes, Irene Galtung, Malvin Gattinger and Naakow Grant-Hayford

This book, inspired by Tun Mahathir Mohamad – Malaysia’s fourth Prime Minister – and his work on Criminalizing War and [...]

The Art of Peace (2017)

Global Peace Studies 101: Theory and Practice

Peace is not only absence of violence and threat if violence, negative peace, but the parties being good to each other, positive peace. Part [...]

Launching Peace Studies - The First Prio Years (2010)

Strategies Findings Implications

How did peace research as a comprehensive program start back in 1959, in Oslo? In this book Johan Galtung tells the story of what happened the first 12 years [...]

Hva var det du prøvde å få til? (2010)

Med et forord av Ketil Bjørnstad

Tilegnet Arne Haugestad og Ingjald Ørbeck Sørheim

I denne dialogen er fokus på det Arne Treholt gjorde til [...]

Peace Plays (2010)

Johan Galtung, Vithal Rajan, S.P. Udayakumar

Peace studies are usually presented as essays, in social science, political or philosophical-ethical discourses. This book is an experiment with drama as peace discourse, by authors versed [...]

Global Leadership and Global Systemic Issues (2011)

South, North and the United Nations in a 21st Century World

by Boutros Boutros Ghali & Branislav Gosovic

This analysis of «global leadership» delves into the question of who should be in the vanguard [...]

Peace Journalism - 80 Galtung Editorials on War and Peace (2010)

Antonio C.S. Rosa, Editor

Since early 2008 TRANSCEND has been running a media service--managed by Antonio Carlos Rosa--promoting a solution-oriented peace journalism. In the preface Rosa tells the story of this [...]

Stories to Inspire You (2013)

This is a collection of short stories with lessons for life, assembled by Dietrich Fischer and illustrated by Altynay Baihodjoeva.

We typically hear news about war and violence, human failures and folly, accidents and [...]

SABONA - Searching for the Good Solutions - Learning Solving Conflicts (2011)

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Many see conflicts as being caused by difficult parties, persons, countries, violent in action and speech. To see them as carriers of an important message is [...]

KOREA - The Twisting Roads to Unification

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Hardliners in North and South Korea dream of "unification by absorption", as it happened in Vietnam (by military victory of the North) or in Germany (by [...]

Clash of Civilizations? Solving Underlying Conflicts (2015)

This book, based on five lectures at the International Islamic University Malaysia explores clashes of and in civilizations where Islam is involved. A basic point is that civilization as defined [...]

Songs Without Borders (Audio CD)

Transcend and Transform (2004)

An Introduction to Conflict Work

by Johan Galtung

TRANSCEND AND TRANSFORM is about how to overcome conflicts at different levels, with 40 concrete examples based on the author's four decades of experience as [...]

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