He has mediated in over 150 conflicts between states, nations, religions, civilizations, communities, and persons since 1957. He has taught thousands of individuals and motivated them to dedicate their lives to the promotion of peace and the satisfaction of basic human needs. He has served as a professor for peace studies at universities all over the world, including Columbia (New York), Oslo, Berlin, Belgrade, Paris, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Sichuan, Ritsumeikan (Japan), Princeton, Hawai’i, Tromsoe, Bern, Alicante (Spain), Islamic University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, and dozens of others on all continents. He has helped found dozens of other peace centers around the world since. He founded the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (1959), the world’s first academic research center focused on peace studies, as well as the influential Journal of Peace Research (1964). He is a mathematician (his first Ph.D.), a sociologist, political scientist and the founder of the academic disciplines of Peace and Conflict Studies. Johan Vincent Galtung, dr, dr hc mult, a professor of peace studies, was born in Oslo, Norway on the same day that the UN would come to existence 15 years later. Johan Galtung receives Doctor Honoris Causa Madrid. Today he has contributed more than 170 books over 1500 papers, articles and book chapters and more than 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service on peace and conflict studies, mediation, and related issues.
In jail he wrote, with Arne Næss, his first book: Gandhi’s Political Ethics. At 24, he was jailed for 6 months as a Conscientious Objector in Norway. (October 18, 2021) - On October 24, the ‘Father of Peace Studies,’ Johan Galtung, celebrates his 91st birthday. T he ‘Father of Peace Studies,’ on His 91 st BirthdayĪntonio C.
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