Analyses, comments and opinion pieces in various Chinese media
In December 2021, I was invited to become a regular contributor of opinion pieces to China Daily. It has more than 52 million clicks
1065 – TFF Peace Pulse # 2 – We need an all-European debate about Europe’s future
These TFF Peace Pulses will only be published here a few times. You will also not find them on YouTube and Vimeo because both
1064 – Allies’ security myth: NATO is not making Europe safer
I am very happy to tell you that Danish-Chinese professor Li Xing – who has been at Aalborg University for many years, but is
1062 – The first of the new TFF Peace Pulse – #1 “WWIII? Just Doubt It”
In contrast to most, we’ll bring alternatives, solutions, hope and strategies for a better future. Times are dangerous, yes, but that only intensifies the
1061 – Don’t despair! The Western Empire is going down, and that opens great opportunities for a better world…
I was recently invited to have a good, long talk about the world – and, of course, about peace too – with Boris Malagurski on his Weight
1052 – Ordinary people want peace: Can citizen diplomacy build a safer future for everyone?
Jan Oberg February 20, 2026 What a thrill to be interviewed by former British diplomat Ian Proud! Don’t waste a minute: acquaint yourself with him here
1051 – Et nyt perspektiv og en plan for et afmilitariseret Arktis til det fælles bedste – og hvorfor dét er rationelt
I. Fire principper for en ny arktisk vision Arktis fremstilles ofte som en kold arena for rivalisering — et sted, hvor stormagter tester hinandens
1047 – How to stop the Trump regime before we militarise ourselves to bankruptcy
I was delighted to be on London-based Anthony Fatseas’s WTFinance Channel on YouTube a couple of days ago. And below a nice little story
1039 – Recent media conversations in the non-Western world
Mostly concerning Greenland, Europe’s irreparable crisis, Trump’s MAGAlomanic Empire and world order change and alternatives – only during the first couple of weeks of
1038 – Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now – Part 1 & 2/5
This is the first and second of five TFF-created idea portfolios designed to curb the global reach of the United States and, in both
1035 – Neither the US and its allies nor any other state has a right to intervene in the domestic affairs of other nations.
With a focus on possible war on Iran, TFF Associates argue that the US must – and can – be stopped. It doesn’t have
1027 – En langtidsplan for fred: Breines, Sachs og Øberg
Antikrigs-Initiativet (AKI) og Internasjonal Kvinneliga for Fred og Frihet, IKFF, i Bergen havde arrangeret en flot daglang konference den 29. november 2025 med temaet
1025 – TFF Portfolio for true peace in Ukraine: UNITE trust, DREAM prosperity and other constructive components.
Peace will not result from any “peace” plan circulated to date. Neither will it emerge from warfare – as the elites of NATO, EU, Russia,
1009 – “If You Want Peace, Be Creative and Focus on The Future.”
August 21, 2025 People’s criticism without offering any solutions and their focus on the past and present, but almost never on the future, are
What to do pro-peace – and with Eutopia thinking
February 17, 2025 So happy again to be on a show at Pascal’s Neutrality Studies and meet Ulrike Guérot. I’m advancing the idea –
Points for the better – future – world
Keynote speech delivered on October 3, 2024, at the Global Changes Centre’s conference in Skopje, Macedonia. Despite the video’s title, this is not mainly
Why does the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence stand stronger today?
Panel discussion on CGTN’s Dialogue with Xu Qinduo July 4, 2024 Of course, you have heard nothing about these globally important Five Principles in
TFF – Den Transnationale Stiftelse for Freds- og Fremtidsforsknings udtalelse om folkedrabet i Gaza
TFF Associates Lund, Sverige – 17. december 2023 Linket til den engelsk-sprogede udtalelse på TFF’s hjemmeside. Mens den brutale nedslagtning i Gaza udfolder sig
❗Towards a new peace and security thinking for the multi-polar, cooperative and peaceful world
A major peace publishing event across cultures: The cover story of the esteemed “China Investment” Magazine’s July 2023 edition. And now also an opinion
Featured Business: A very personal portrait conversation of 1 h & 50 min
Get to know a few things you did not know about Jan Oberg. This is extraordinary: Some serious people contact you and say: “We
The 2022 NATO Nobel Human Rights Prize – Updated
The Nobel Committee should include a member of the US or another NATO country – alternatively, it should be transferred to State Department or
Why are we moving away from dialogue & diplomacy?
I recently had the joy and honour to speak with the newly established Perspective South which does stories, narratives and perspectives from developing countries
Oberg in Global Times: “China should propose a new global, more civilian, security and peace system”
China’s prestigious “Global Times” interviews Jan Oberg and several topical themes are touched upon. Among them, he comments on China’s new higher military expenditures
Ukraine crisis: Time for some peace diplomacy, visions of a better future
I am happy to inform you about my latest column in China’s leading Global Times – with the title above. Read it here and
Nuclear weapons abolition requires more than the five nuclear-weapon states’ recent joint statement
Jan Oberg Written on January 7, 2022, as Op-Ed for China Daily * One description of the contemporary world is more accurate and ominous
STOP this Cold War on China !
Humanity faces huge challenges to its survival – climate change, development of a sustainable post-capitalism-development, militarism and nuclear weapons abolition, poverty eradication, democratising democracy,
It’s time leading climate activists address militarism as a major problem
Greta Thunberg has an impressive following – on Instagram alone, over 11 million. A post in which she just holds her now classical sign
The Global Conversion Campaign – Statement from The Transnational Foundation
On December 10 – which marks both the Nobel Peace Prize and Human Rights Day – the Transnational Foundation launched a campaign – perhaps
Keynote speech for academic peace research in Iran
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
The Corona as an opportunity: Reboot humanity and change security thinking and policies
August 27, 2020 What change toward a New Necessary Normal will have to look like I thought my readers here might be interested in
A typical PressInfo from The Transnational Foundation
We send out TFF PressInfo – alerts about new posts on The Transnational – once or twice a week – or when something urgently
“The New World Rises In The East And…”
17. maj 2020 I dag holder Det Nødvendige Seminarium, DNS, i Tvind sin årlige fred og retfærdigheds-konference. Som et par gange før bad de
What if? Talks on migration. A series of video essays
3. marts 2020 Hvad vil der ske hvis al ind- og udvandring blev givet fri – worldwide? I posten med den overskrift skrev jeg
A happier, less violent 2020
December 30, 2019 Each and every problem humanity faces is rooted in violence. Why do so many continue believing in violence, the most counter-productive,
Iran’s foreign minister is right about weapons preventing peace
August 22, 2019 Dr. Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, yesterday spoke at SIPRI – the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. (At the moment of
TFF’s Transnational Peace Affairs – A new magazine
August 21, 2019 I have long wanted to produce something like a magazine – a daily, diverse drumbeat – that is also easy and
The future of U.S.-Europe relations
“The Debate” with Jim Walsh, MIT and Jan Oberg, TFF Lund, Sweden – May 30, 2017 Last night “The Debate” on PressTV was devoted
Safe zones in Syria – very problematic
Commenting on PressTV after President Erdogan’s and Putin’s meeting on May 3, 2017
Iran on nuclear deal and nuclear-free Middle East
I had the pleasure and honour to comment on the Iranian defence minister’s views on the nuclear deal, on a nuclear-free Middle East, terrorism
Syria – two perspectives illustrated
“The Debate” of April 16, 2017 on Iran’s PressTV between Richard Millett and myself is important to me. I think it will be for
The US/NATO confrontation with Russia is dangerous
TFF LiveApril 12, 2017 The secretaries of state, Tillerson and Lavrov meet today. We seem to enter a stage of what must appropriately be
The Meaninglessness of War: Aleppo
Here my 6th photo series from Aleppo – hashtag #keepfocusonaleppo.
Lund, Sweden – March 24, 2017
Can the almost total destruction of Eastern Aleppo
“Vittnesrapport från Aleppo, en annorlunda konfliktanalys och vägar till fred i Syrien”
Videoinspelning av Jan Öbergs föredrag i Stockholm februari 2017 Inspelningen är uppdelad i två delar: Del 1: Vittnesrapport från Aleppo60 min. Del 2: Debatt
Keep focus on Aleppo and global dimensions of Syria
TFF PressInfo # 405 Lund, Sweden – February 24, 2017Failed conflict analysis To analyse a conflict is as necessary as the diagnosis for
On the Syria ceasefire talks in Astana
There are strong reasons to be sceptical; there has been no interest in peaceful solutions to Syria’s problems since the violence broke out in 2011.
As we move into the new year – 2017
The old years went – in as little a time as it takes to turn around and see who is tapping you on your shoulder.
Thanks for the friends’ and followers’ boom
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
