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. Fernando Montiel, Tats
Arai, Cesar Villanueva, Emma Leslie do terrific jobs, to mention some, and,
indeed, the SABONA team.
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, also for the huge Hexagon Project, with Gerd Junne as a very
important contributor. Naakow, the director, is very entrepreneurial and
innovative intellectually at the same time, with Erika, Benno, Karoline and
more; also working on our economy.
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 model"
(used by EPU and WPA) all over, mediation more or less using the Transcend
approach; dispersed, decentralized, as ought to be.
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 Peace Policy
On the margin of the DNC a forum for what US peace
policy might look like and what stands in the way, including an analysis of the
huge Muslim diaspora in the world in general, and USA-Europe in particular.
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 normalization, drug
legalization and OAS.
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: What? Equality for Greece-Turkey in 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: Balkan Wars at 100; And Good
Neighborhood?
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 as a possible
region? What can the 6 poles in the Hexagon learn from each other positively?
10/07-08: New York, Russell Tribunal on
Palestine: On Sociocide
The case of sociocide--killing
materially-structurally-culturally--not people and nature--was made for the
jury for Israel vs Palestine; including the possibility of Israeli committing
sui-sociocide.
10/18: Valencia, Foro Mundial Mediación: 50 años de experiencias
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 as a whole. Keynotes and
workshops dealt with this in detail; as underdog revolts with a mental
dimension.
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 experimental course online and onsite, with SKYPE
between resource persons and participants, and six collective solution-oriented
papers.
12/12: Basel Galtung-Institut: Wider den Anti-Semitismus:
we need academic, and speech, freedom for constructive discourses to fight
anti-Semitism, to explain, to prevent and to learn, also for Israel-Palestine
and nazism-Hitler-WWII; not discourse control.
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.
