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
1076 – Militarist Absurd Theatre with Dead Horse Punditry? No. There Are Only Alternatives
Jan ObergTFF director ☮️ When this morning, August 19, 2026, I saw the above new US Trump map, I came to think of Frank
1072 – Research quality and quantity: Some aspects of doing social science today
A written interview with China Social Science Today, which is published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Here is the Chinese version of May
1071 – Advisor to the Arete Youth Academy
A couple of months ago, I was invited to join the new Arete Youth Academy, AYA, as an advisor. I felt happy and honoured
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
1063 – TFF at 40: Four Decades of Publishing Peace – Or from 1,200 to 1,6 million…
These two articles are part of the series “TFF at 40″ and they invite you to learn about the probably unique history of Four
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
1033 – TFF – The Transnational Foundation, turns 40
On this occasion – unique in the history of Nordic academia in general and peace and future research in particular – we look back
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
Jan Oberg on Russia’s and China’s national TV
Every few days, I was on TV in Russia and China – Russia TV1 and China’s CCTV – the latter as part of a
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
TFF invited to highest-level peace conference in Beijing
June 25, 2024 Much to our surprise – and a great honour – TFF, through Jan Oberg, has been invited to attend and speak
Johan Galtung 1930-2024
My dear friend over 50 years and one of my two peace research mentors died this morning. He was 93. He was, beyond any
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
California Radio: NATO expansion, Ukraine and Sweden/Finland joining NATO
I was happy to be on Heroes and Patriots on March 2, 2023 – an online radio program in northern California focusing on national
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
SIPRI – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – is now SIMSI
SIPRI – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – no longer works with peace in any sense of the word. SIPRI is now SIMSI –
“Goodbye Peace. Worldmoires Into A Peaceful Future”
Welcome to my worldmoires – a word I have invented for the occasion. It means writing about my life in the perspective of global
Podcast – Oberg, peace and the media
The Global Press Coalition for Peace, GPCP, in Washington kindly turned to me and asked me to speak with them for a longer podcast.
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
💐 Ny bog om Johan Galtung til 90 års dagen
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
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
Det danske fredsakademi siger sandheden forud for Hiroshima og Nagasaki 75
22. juli 2020 Mens Danmark har mængder af velfinancierede institutter for militære studier samt et forsvarsakademi har det hverken et institut for fredsforskning eller
Fredsforskningen ved Lunds Universitet nedlagt i 1989: Hvorfor og hvordan?
Og hvordan jeg har levet lykkeligt lige siden Omend det er meget lille, er det et stykke nordisk akademisk historie, som fortjener at blive
A great soul’s 150th birthday
By TFF & Jan Oberg Herunder en typisk meddelelse fra Den Transnationale Stiftelse for Freds- og Fremtidsforskning, TFF. Vi kalder dem TFF PressInfo og
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
Peace illiteracy
And why I am switching balances from the most noble and important – but momentarily meaningless – job to something more rewarding… February 1,
“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
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
SIPRI – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – turns 50: Time for a name change?
My congratulations to the institute at 50, a background – including my own working there as an intern many years ago – a bit
Olof Palme – murdered today 29 years
Olof Palme – murdered today 29 years ago • Wikipedia A politician who willed a better society, to whom politics was a calling –
TFF PressInfo # 309: Learn conflict and peace in 20 minutes
Just out! TFF PressInfo # 309Learn conflict and peace in 20 minutes11.000 people around the world just got it in their mailbox. If you
If one could say so I would: “I’m Pope!”
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
P1 Debat gør det igen
P1 Debat: Hvad nytter krigen (den gør altså nytte)– gør det igen – som om det var en oprigtig holdning til fred – og
TFF PressInfo! Let it wing into your e-mail inbox
Get TFF PressInfoLet it wing into you e-mail inbox!A rapidly growing peace politics e-mail service. It’s topical, for peace, and well-researched and sometimes provocative.
► ► Bosnia today and Yugoslavia then
Voting has begun in Bosnia in an election dominated by nationalist rhetoric and a stagnant economy. A good 2000 pages by three scholars who
☮ ☮ TFF PressInfo 283: Nobel’s Peace Prize is not a human rights prize
☮ ☮ TFF PressInfo 283: Nobel’s Peace Prize is not a human rights prize The Nobel Committee again ignores Alfred Nobel’s words and spirit.
► ► New TFF PressInfo 281: Instead of bombing IS (Part A)
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
☮ ☮ World Peace Day on Sunday! ♫♥
☮ ☮ World Peace Day on Sunday! ♫♥ This is the incredible peace symphony by Beethoven that PLAY FOR RIGHTS performs in the Bern
Six Steps Short of War to Beat ISIS – the speech Obama should have held!
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
☮ ☮ New TFF PressInfo 277 – After all this, what?
☮ ☮ New TFF PressInfo 277 – After all this, what?Messages to NATO – After Yugoslavia? After the fall of the US Empire? After
“YUGOSLAVIA – WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE ?”
► A major event in peace and conflict research & policy studies • Three authors with 130+ man years of experience with Yugoslavia •
CNNs journalistic peace versus informed peace!
With this headline CNN conveys the idea that peace = when direct violence stops (for a while). This is the classical journalist perspective, not
Hvor har vores krige virket?
Omfattende interview med RÆSON per 1. august 2014: Om situationen i Gaza, om mægling og fred, om Irak, krigen mod terror, Ukrain, en ny
☮ ☮ Where Is The Passion for Peace? Yes,
☮ ☮ Where Is The Passion for Peace? Yes, indeed – where is that passion? Today those of us who struggle for the UN
It’s doable: Peace Israel-Palestine
By Jan Oberg This one has just been published as TFF PressInfo here. I argue that we need to focus on the violence on
