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TFF turns 30 – Part 1 “How it all began – and why?”

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The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research turns 30 on September 12, 2015.Here a good two minutes with my dear wife, Christina, and myself on that decision in 1985.

International affairs, Media criticism, Nonviolence, Peace, Peace research

CNNs journalistic peace versus informed peace!

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CNN headline, August 1, 2014 With this headline CNN conveys the idea that peace = when direct violence stops (for a while). This is the classical journalist perspective, not even a minimum definition and makes peace a rest category in between wars and other violence. Deeply unhelpful! A peace professional would call that peace illiteracy. Here [...]