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JOHAN GALTUNG – Professor of peace studies (at universities including Columbia/NewYork, Oslo, Berlin, Belgrade, Paris, Santiago de Chile, BuenosAires, Cairo, Sichuan, Ritsumeikan/Japan, Princeton, Hawai, Tromsoe, Bern, Alicante/ Spain), mathematician, sociologist, political scientist and the founder of the discipline of peace studies. Founder of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (1959) and Journal of Peace Research (1964), founder and rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University (2000), the world's first online Peace Studies University, of the TRANSCEND University Press (2008), founder and director of TRANSCEND International, a global non-profit network for Peace, Development and the Environment, founded in 1993, with over 500 members in more than 70 countries around the world. He has mediated in over 100 conflicts between states, nations, religions, civilizations, communities, and persons since 1957. His contributions to peace theory and practice include conceptualization of peace-building, conflict mediation, reconciliation, nonviolence, theory of structural violence, theorizing about negative vs. positive peace, peace education and peace journalism. Author or co-author of more than 1600 articles and over 160 books on peace and related issues, including Peace By Peaceful Means (1996), Macrohistory and Macrohistorians (with Sohail Inayatullah, 1997), Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means (1998), Johan uten land (autobiography, 2000), Transcend & Transform: An Introduction to Conflict Work (2004, in 25 languages), 50 Years – 100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives (2008), Democracy – Peace – Development (with Paul Scott, 2008), 50 Years – 25 Intellectual Landscapes Explored (2008), Globalizing God (with Graeme MacQueen, 2008), The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What (2009), Peace Business (with Jack Santa Barbara and Fred Dubee, 2009), A Theory of Conflict (2010), A Theory of Development (2010),Reporting Conflict: NewDirections in Peace Journalism (with PO INT OF V IEW

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