Concluding Remarks, Colloque, Université Catholique Lyon, 5-6 Feb 2016 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 10 December 1948–the two Conventions of 16 November 1966 are…
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To Antonio, editor of TMS, and to Prof. Johan Galtung: Thanks for posting my YEAR OF HOPE 2016 Poem. I hope it will soon become a…
To navigate these difficult conceptual waters we need some rules. Here are three suggestions (the violence can be direct–as sometimes prescribed by the Abrahamic religions–or structural…
Jondal-Hardanger-Norway Let us have a look, and see what can be done. [1] Economies. NYSE is falling; China is consuming, with problems; the West blames China,…
The state system emerged in the 17th century, with institutions for force. One was for internal and one for external use: the national police and the…
Alfaz, Spain Democracy is rule–decision-making–by the consent of the people, the demos. There is a very good argument: the people will suffer the consequences. Hence rule…
Baher Kamal, in –And All of a Sudden Syria!: “The “big five” /the UN veto powers/ have just agreed /Res 2254 of 18-12-2015/–time to end the…
According to UNESCO, wars start in the minds of men. Well, something–like unsolved conflicts and unconciled traumas–passes minds on the way to war. But UNESCO got…
Thanks dear Oxford students for the Xmas gift, challenging the cult of Cecil Rhodes–colonialist, classist, racist. He was also an Aryan supremacist, like Hitler but for…
From very high up three major countries-states stand out clearly: China, the most populous; Russia, the largest; USA, the most military. With three leaders, Xi, Putin,…
In that eco-system humanity has since industrialization upset balances and now suffers the consequences, trying to tackle them. COP21, the UN 195 States conference in Paris,…
The process has now gone full circle, from Sykes-Picot Agreement negotiated from 1915 to 16 May 1916, about control of the Ottoman Empire, when beaten, to…
Short answer: No. The Paris event triggered war journalism; no peace journalism was observed. To doubt that anti-IS violence will work is not peace journalism, only…
Atlanta, Georgia, USA The atrocity in Paris seems to trigger the word “terrorism” with a higher frequency than ever, in the media, from the politicians. Doing…
Answer: Nowhere, because Europe does not exist. On the axis of five stages of positive peace, the process came to a standstill at stage 3. They…
We have war and peace, theory and practice. And deeper down cultures of war and peace, notions of what the world is or could be. The…
L’Alfàs del Pi, Alicante, Spain Our focus is on transactions: I give something to you, you give something to me. The double flow of which lo…
Keynote, 13th Session World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” – Rhodes, Greece, 9 Oct 2015 The strength of this forum is its civilization focus; let us…
The Oregon community college was “the 45th school shooting this year in America; the 142nd school shooting since the Newton massacre in 2012”, Matthew Albracht–Peace Alliance–who…
Bogotá, 30 Sep 2015 The accords were signed a week ago with still much work to do this coming half a year. 23 March 2016 is…
The young US Republic, unwilling to share the Atlantic Seaboard with London, emerged victoriously in 1812 with a strong army centered in the South. Manifest Destiny…