A peaceful world can often look like an impossible dream. Especially lately. We may feel overwhelmed, helpless, and powerless when we read news about what is happening in the world. However, every day there are people that reject these feelings and actions. They decide to take actual steps towards peace and do something tangible to help heal the world. Johan Galtung is one of these people. Johan Galtung is a Norwegian sociologist and mathematician, born in Oslo in 1930, son of a doctor and a nurse. He is known to be the father of peace studies, having founded the Peace
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Johan Galtung – The Father of Peace Studies
Johan Galtung born in Oslo on October 24, 1930, is a Norwegian sociologist and mathematician. In 1959 he founded the Oslo Peace Research Institute (PRIO) followed with the Journal of Peace Research in 1964. Being one of the fathers of peace research/studies international institutions often turn to him for technical advice on conflict mediation due to his works accumulating in around 160 books and more than 1600 academic articles. Since the start of his career in 1957, he has personally mediated in more than 150 conflicts between states, nations, religions, civilisations, communities, and individuals. In addition, he has received more
The Father of Peace Studies
In 1930, an individual born in Oslo, Norway, would go on to lead the academic field of peace and conflict studies, writing over 160 books and publishing 1,600 articles. His name is John Gualtung and is renowned as the ‘Father of Peace Studies’. During the midst of the Cold War on the year the Vietnam War started in 1958, Gualtung founded the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). This was the first peace institute in the world and remains as Norway’s only leading research facility in the field of international peace studies. Most recent publications produced by the PRIO include Putin’s war
John Galtung and his work
“Peace appeals to the hearts – studies to the brain. Both are needed, indeed indispensable. But equally indispensable is a valid link between brain and heart.” Johan Galtung (Oslo, 1930) is a sociologist and is widely considered the founder of Peace Studies, being the first one to launch it as a field of inquiry. Holding both a PhD in Mathematics and one in Sociology, his family heavily influenced his academic path. Especially his father – a multi-faceted professional with a background at the Military Academy, a degree in Medicine and a wide knowledge of Political Economy – and his mother who