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
MoreI’m happy to announce that from December 2021, I serve as a monthly contributor of opinion pieces to China Daily. It has more than
MoreGet to know a few things you did not know about Jan Oberg. This is extraordinary: Some serious people contact you and say: “We
MoreThe Nobel Committee should include a member of the US or another NATO country – alternatively, it should be transferred to State Department or
MoreI recently had the joy and honour to speak with the newly established Perspective South which does stories, narratives and perspectives from developing countries
MoreOberg 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
MoreI am happy to inform you about my latest column in China’s leading Global Times – with the title above. Read it here and
MoreJan Oberg Written on January 7, 2022, as Op-Ed for China Daily * One description of the contemporary world is more accurate and ominous
MoreHumanity faces huge challenges to its survival – climate change, development of a sustainable post-capitalism-development, militarism and nuclear weapons abolition, poverty eradication, democratising democracy,
MoreGreta Thunberg has an impressive following – on Instagram alone, over 11 million. A post in which she just holds her now classical sign
MoreOn December 10 – which marks both the Nobel Peace Prize and Human Rights Day – the Transnational Foundation launched a campaign – perhaps
MoreNovember 23 and 24, 2020, marked an important event in the international academic/university history of peace and conflict research. The reason is that the
MoreAugust 27, 2020 What change toward a New Necessary Normal will have to look like I thought my readers here might be interested in
MoreWe send out TFF PressInfo – alerts about new posts on The Transnational – once or twice a week – or when something urgently
More17. maj 2020 I dag holder Det Nødvendige Seminarium, DNS, i Tvind sin årlige fred og retfærdigheds-konference. Som et par gange før bad de
More3. marts 2020 Hvad vil der ske hvis al ind- og udvandring blev givet fri – worldwide? I posten med den overskrift skrev jeg
MoreDecember 30, 2019 Each and every problem humanity faces is rooted in violence. Why do so many continue believing in violence, the most counter-productive,
MoreAugust 22, 2019 Dr. Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, yesterday spoke at SIPRI – the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. (At the moment of
MoreAugust 21, 2019 I have long wanted to produce something like a magazine – a daily, diverse drumbeat – that is also easy and
More“The Debate” with Jim Walsh, MIT and Jan Oberg, TFF Lund, Sweden – May 30, 2017 Last night “The Debate” on PressTV was devoted
MoreCommenting on PressTV after President Erdogan’s and Putin’s meeting on May 3, 2017
MoreJust a thought…
MoreI 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
More“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
MoreTFF LiveApril 12, 2017 The secretaries of state, Tillerson and Lavrov meet today. We seem to enter a stage of what must appropriately be
MoreHere my 6th photo series from Aleppo – hashtag #keepfocusonaleppo. Lund, Sweden – March 24, 2017 Can the almost total destruction of Eastern Aleppo
MoreVideoinspelning av Jan Öbergs föredrag i Stockholm februari 2017 Inspelningen är uppdelad i två delar: Del 1: Vittnesrapport från Aleppo60 min. Del 2: Debatt
MoreTFF PressInfo # 405 Lund, Sweden – February 24, 2017Failed conflict analysis To analyse a conflict is as necessary as the diagnosis for
MoreThere 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.
MoreThe old years went – in as little a time as it takes to turn around and see who is tapping you on your shoulder.
MoreDuring the last two weeks I have received almost 800 friend requests on Facebook and about 1000 new followers. It’s overwhelming and warms my
MoreHere a few comments on Erdogan’s recent attack on the West for supplying arms to the Kurds. Funny that Turkey’s president should accuse someone
MoreMy congratulations to the institute at 50, a background – including my own working there as an intern many years ago – a bit
MoreOctober 26, 2016 Yet another example of how tension build up in this New Cold War situation – instead of doing what we did
MoreLast night I had the opportunity to discuss nuclear weapons with an experienced, high-ranking security analyst who has been both a military, a scholar,
MoreCommenting on PressTv on July 22, 2016 after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean. But how much did the media cover that in comparison
MoreIn an open letter – hardly mentioned by the Western mainstream press, a group of high-level and rather “Realpolitik” US diplomats, scholars, military and politicians urge
MoreThe West leaves, a multi-polar world comes Jan Øberg – Video lecture – Part 1/3
MoreCommenting on NATO S-G Jens Stoltenberg’s wish for dialogue with Russia – a bit odd after all the other provocative initiatives he has spearheaded
MoreThis is TFF PressInfo # 321. It’s about the lack of wisdom and compassion of the Western leaders who are staying away from today’s
MoreMy deeply concerned wake-up call to YOU! Please share and spread further!NATO’s military leader is like a man given a scalpel to perform surgery
MoreDer findes bedre argumenter imod end for. De officielle argumenter holder i hvert fald ikke. Og i det hele taget handler en informeret debat
MoreIt’s our wars, stupid!A short interview on Russia Today about Europe’s woefully inadequate understanding of why refugees come here.Towards a solution: Deal with conflicts
MoreSyriens præsident: De farligste IS-ledere i vores region er fra Skandinavien Det er nok en tanke værd dét al-Assad hér siger. I foråret 2013
MoreIran says nuclear deal depends on lifting of sanctions | Reuters This is a timely reminder to those who believe the Iran nuclear deal
MoreStubb and Tuomioja rush to reassure after Russian statement: “Nothing to worry about” | yle.fi To old-fashioned politics, security is still predominantly about weapons,
MoreJeg anbefaler på det varmeste Carsten Bagge Laustsens “Terror”, udgivet i serien Tænkepauser fra Aarhus Universitet (60 sider).Den er kyndig, klog og meget velskrevet,
MoreIsrael’s defence minister Moshe Ya’alon writes in Washington Post under the headline “Current Iran framework will make war more likely”When I wrote my comment
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