In December 2021, I was invited to become a regular contributor of opinion pieces to China Daily. It has more than 52 million clicks
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My dear friend over 50 years and one of my two peace research mentors died this morning. He was 93. He was, beyond any
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Get to know a few things you did not know about Jan Oberg. This is extraordinary: Some serious people contact you and say: “We
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I was happy to be on Heroes and Patriots on March 2, 2023 – an online radio program in northern California focusing on national
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The Nobel Committee should include a member of the US or another NATO country – alternatively, it should be transferred to State Department or
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SIPRI – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – no longer works with peace in any sense of the word. SIPRI is now SIMSI –
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Welcome to my worldmoires – a word I have invented for the occasion. It means writing about my life in the perspective of global
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The Global Press Coalition for Peace, GPCP, in Washington kindly turned to me and asked me to speak with them for a longer podcast.
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November 23 and 24, 2020, marked an important event in the international academic/university history of peace and conflict research. The reason is that the
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23.oktober 2020 Den norske arkitekt og fredsforkæmper, Susanne Urban har forfattet en righoldig bog, som netop er udkommet for at markere at en af
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We send out TFF PressInfo – alerts about new posts on The Transnational – once or twice a week – or when something urgently
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22. juli 2020 Mens Danmark har mængder af velfinancierede institutter for militære studier samt et forsvarsakademi har det hverken et institut for fredsforskning eller
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Og hvordan jeg har levet lykkeligt lige siden Omend det er meget lille, er det et stykke nordisk akademisk historie, som fortjener at blive
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By TFF & Jan Oberg Herunder en typisk meddelelse fra Den Transnationale Stiftelse for Freds- og Fremtidsforskning, TFF. Vi kalder dem TFF PressInfo og
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August 21, 2019 I have long wanted to produce something like a magazine – a daily, diverse drumbeat – that is also easy and
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And why I am switching balances from the most noble and important – but momentarily meaningless – job to something more rewarding… February 1,
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Videoinspelning av Jan Öbergs föredrag i Stockholm februari 2017 Inspelningen är uppdelad i två delar: Del 1: Vittnesrapport från Aleppo60 min. Del 2: Debatt
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During the last two weeks I have received almost 800 friend requests on Facebook and about 1000 new followers. It’s overwhelming and warms my
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My congratulations to the institute at 50, a background – including my own working there as an intern many years ago – a bit
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Olof Palme – murdered today 29 years ago • Wikipedia A politician who willed a better society, to whom politics was a calling –
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Just out! TFF PressInfo # 309Learn conflict and peace in 20 minutes11.000 people around the world just got it in their mailbox. If you
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After Paris attacks, Pope Francis speaks out against insulting religions: “You can’t kill in the name of a religion. That is an aberration.” And
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P1 Debat: Hvad nytter krigen (den gør altså nytte)– gør det igen – som om det var en oprigtig holdning til fred – og
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Voting has begun in Bosnia in an election dominated by nationalist rhetoric and a stagnant economy. A good 2000 pages by three scholars who
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☮ ☮ TFF PressInfo 283: Nobel’s Peace Prize is not a human rights prize The Nobel Committee again ignores Alfred Nobel’s words and spirit.
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TFF PressInfo 281: Instead of bombing IS (Part A) – Please SHARE It’s easy to be pro-war. It is easy to be anti-war. But
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☮ ☮ World Peace Day on Sunday! ♫♥ This is the incredible peace symphony by Beethoven that PLAY FOR RIGHTS performs in the Bern
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Six Steps Short of War to Beat ISISBy eminent researcher Phyllis Bennis The speech President Obama ought to have held…based on brilliant intellectual points
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☮ ☮ New TFF PressInfo 277 – After all this, what?Messages to NATO – After Yugoslavia? After the fall of the US Empire? After
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► A major event in peace and conflict research & policy studies • Three authors with 130+ man years of experience with Yugoslavia •
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With this headline CNN conveys the idea that peace = when direct violence stops (for a while). This is the classical journalist perspective, not
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Omfattende interview med RÆSON per 1. august 2014: Om situationen i Gaza, om mægling og fred, om Irak, krigen mod terror, Ukrain, en ny
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☮ ☮ Where Is The Passion for Peace? Yes, indeed – where is that passion? Today those of us who struggle for the UN
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By Jan Oberg This one has just been published as TFF PressInfo here. I argue that we need to focus on the violence on
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☮ ☮ Mahatma Gandhi On Palestine, Written In 1938 Since my student years, Gandhi has been one of my inspirations, perhaps the basic one.
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Håkan Wiberg was one of my mentors in peace studies and a friend over almost 40 years – and dearly missed today. He was an Associate
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