Featured Speaker: Professor Johan Galtung
Johan Galtung is a world renowned Professor of Peace Studies, leading advocate in non-violent solutions in resolving conflicts and international mediator. Born in Oslo, Norway in 1930, Galtung completed doctorates in Mathematics and Sociology. In 1959, he founded the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo and consequently he founded the Journal of Peace Research in 1964. He is also the founder of TRANSCEND: A Peace and Development Network and TRANSCEND Peace University.
His recent publications include Pax Pacifica: The Pacific Hemisphere and Peace Studies (2005), Transcend and Transform (2004), Peace by Peaceful Means (1996) and Choose Peace (1995). He has also collaborated on many other publications and has published his autobiography entitled Johan without Land in 2000.
He has been the winner of many prestigious awards such as the Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Peace Prize) in 1987, the 2000 Norwegian Literary Prize and the 2006 Augsburg Golden Book of Peace. Through his public work and numerous awards, he has been given the nickname of the “Father of Peace Studies.”
He has held numerous professorates at leading international universities such as the United Nations University in Geneva, Columbia University and Princeton University. He has been the recipient of nine honorary doctorates (emeritus) and four honorary professorships from universities around the globe. He also serves as Distinguished Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Hawaii and Distinguished Visiting Professor at John Perkins University.
Recent book publications:
Transcend and Transform: An Introduction to Conflict Work, London 2004.
The Way is the Goal: Gandhi Today, Ahmedabad 1992/98, 224 pp.
Global Glasnost (with Rick Vincent), New Jersey 1992, 271 pp.
Buddhism: A Quest for Unity and Peace Colombo 1993, 138 pp.
Eurotopia: Die Zukunft eines Kontinents Wien 1993, 179 pp.
Nach dem kalten Krieg: Jesus oder Barabbas Zürich 1993, 160 pp.
Human Rights In Another Key Cambridge: Polity, 1994, 184 pp.
Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1994; Milano: CreaCommercio 1997; Oslo: Humanist, 1997; Lisboa: Inst Piaget, 1998; Istanbul: Metis 2000.
Taiwa: Heiwaeno Sentaku (Dialogue: Choose Peace, with Daisaku Ikeda) Tokyo, Mainichi, 1995, 376 pp.; London: Pluto, 1995; Milano: Crea-Commercio 1996; Seoul: Shin Young, 1997; Bangkok: Kled Thai, 1997
Investigaciones teóricas Madrid: Tecnos; Gil Albert, 1995, 464pp.
Peace By Peaceful Means London: SAGE, 1996, 280 pp. Opladen: Leske &Burkhardt, Milano: Esperia, 2000; Seoul: 2002; Gernika: 2003.
Deep-Rooted U.S. Pathologies, Fairfax: ICAR, GMU, 1996, 52pp.
Macrohistory and Macrohistorians, with Sohail Inayatullah,
Westport CT, London, 1997: Praeger, 1997), 274 pp.
Der Preis der Modernisierung, Wien, ProMedia, 1997, 215 pp.
Conflict Transformation By Peaceful Means, Geneva: UN 1998, 37pp.
Die andere Globalisierung, Münster: Agenda Verlag, 1998, 254pp.
3R: Reconstruccion, Resolucion, Reconciliacion, Gernika, 1998
Nippon wa Kikika(Is Japan in A Crisis?, with Ikuro Anzai) Kyoto:1999 Die Zukunft der Menschenrechte, Frankfurt: CAMPUS/EXPO 2000,248pp.
Searching for Peace(with CG, K Jacobsen): London: Pluto, 2000, 2002.
Conflict Transformation By Peaceful Means, Geneva: UN 2000, 189pp.
Johan uten land (autobiography), Oslo: Ascheoug, 2000, 432pp.
Rethinking Conflict: The Cultural Approach, Strasb'g: CoE 2002 69pp.
Les mondes pour la paix, Caen: Mémorial, 2003, 44pp.
Democracy Works: People, Experts and the Future (with Håkan Wiberg, eds): FUTURES, Special Issue, March 2003, 89 pp.
Både-Og: En innföring i konfliktarbeid, Oslo: Kagge, 2003, 234pp.
En flyveappelsin forteller (with Andreas Galtung) Oslo: Kagge, 2003
Irak-krigens förste fase, Oslo: TRANSCEND, 2003, 47pp.
Ways of Thinking About Peace Creation from Conflict toReconciliation Kyoto/YWCA Ho'o pono pono group Tokyo: Iwanami-Shoten, 2003, 54 pp.
Grasping Peace for the 21st Century, Johan Galtung's Theory of Peace Akifumi Fujita, ed, Kyoto: Horitsu-bunkasha 2003, 220 pp.
USA Glasnost (with Rick Vincent), New Jersey 2003, 273 pp.
Holder of:
Right Livelihood Award (aka Alternative Nobel Peace Prize), 1987
Bajaj International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values, 1993
Norwegian Literary Prize Brage, 2000
Dr honoris causa, University of Tampere, 1975, peace studies
Dr honoris causa, University of Cluj, 1976, future studies
Dr honoris causa, Uppsala University, 1987, social sciences
Dr honoris causa, Soka University, Tokyo, 1990, peace/buddhism
Dr honoris causa, Universität Osnabrück, 1995, peace studies
Dr honoris causa, Università di Torino, 1998, sociology of law
Dr honoris causa, FernUniversität Hagen, 2000, philosophy
Dr honoris causa, Universidad de Alicante, 2002, sociology
Profesor honorario, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, 1981
Honorarprofessor, Freie Universität Berlin, 1984-1993
Honorary professor, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 1986
Honorarprofessor, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Witten, 1993
* Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.
