Broad curriculum vitae

Well, what to include and what not?

This is a broad curriculum vitae. It mentions various dimensions of Johan’s lifework for peace by peaceful means – theory, concepts, practice, projects, postions, prizes, etc.

Biography

Transcend’s Short biography.

Johan Galtung & Dietrich Fischer
Johan Galtung, Pioneer of Peace Research.
Springer Nature Links, 2013

Wikipedia – with some correct facts, except the political, ill-intentioned accusation that Johan was “antisemitic.” True, he was somewhat careless about a source he referred to, but he has visited Israel countless times, and already in 1971 produced what is probably still the most comprehensive and innovative peace plan for the region. Read it here.

In 2006, he published his memoires called “Johan Uten Land” – Johan Without A Country” which contains lots of material about his life and work.

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Founder

TRANSCEND (with his wife, Fumiko Nishimura Galtung)
A Network for Peace, Development and Environment in 1993
More about it here.

PRIO
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo 1959 (which long ago moved away from Johan’s goals in particular and peace research in general).

JPR
Journal of Peace Research, 1964.

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Contributed substantially to the founding of:

IPRA – The International Peace Research Association.

WFSF – The World Future Studies Federation.

TFF – The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research, Sweden.

The Hardanger Academy, Norway.

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14 academic fields in which Johan – often together with fellow researchers – made important, sometimes path-breaking, contributions

Sociology
Peace and conflict research
Future research
Media and news analysis
Social science methodology
Philosophy of science
World order studies – e.g. World Order Models Project (WOMP)
Alternative defence and security
Peace education
GPID – Goals Processes and Indicators of Development – UNESCO and here.
Macro history – e.g. here covering 3000 years and here.
Peace journalism
UN conflict-resolution training method – the Transcend Method
Conflict-resolution methods and training in schools – the Sabona method.

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On-the-ground conflict analyses and mediation

TRANSCEND-Galtung Track Record on Conflict Solution/Mediation: 1958-2018.
The 35 cases reported are mainly from the 100 in the 2008 book 50 Years: 100 Conflict and Peace Perspectives; after that about 100 new perspectives-visions have been produced.

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Chairs and professorships

First professor of peace studies, Oslo University, 1969.

Various teaching and research project positions, not just guestb lectures, at Oslo University, Columbia University, and universities in Berlin, Belgrade, Dubrovnik, the UN University in Tokyo, in Paris, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Sichuan, Ritsumeikan, Princeton, Hawaii, Bern, Alicante, Witten-Herdecke, Kuala Lumpur and Basel.

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Prizes, awards and honorary doctoral degrees

Dr honoris causa, University of Tampere, 1975, peace studies.

The alternative Rosenkjær Prize, Copenhagen.

Dr honoris causa, University of Cluj, 1976, future studies.

Profesor honorario, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, 1981.

Honorarprofessor, Freie Universität Berlin, 1984-1993.

Honorary professor, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 1986.

Right Livelihood Award (aka Alternative Nobel Peace Prize), 1987.

Dr honoris causa, Uppsala University, 1987, social sciences.

First recipient of the Humanist Prize of the Norwegian Humanist Association, 1988.

Dr honoris causa, Soka University, Tokyo, 1990, peace/buddhism.

Jamnalal Bajaj International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values, 1993.

Distinguished professor of peace studies, University of Hawaii, 1993.

Honorarprofessor, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Witten, 1993.

Dr honoris causa, Universität Osnabrück, 1995, peace studies.

Dr honoris causa, Universite di Torino, 1998, sociology of law.

Norwegian Literary Prize Brage, 2000.

Dr honoris causa, FernUniversität Hagen, 2000, philosophy.

First Morton Deutsch Conflict Resolution Award, 2001.

Honorary Prize of the Norwegian Sociological Association, 2001.

Dr honoris causa, Universidad de Alicante, 2002, sociology.

Premio Hidalgo, Madrid, 2005.

John Perkins University distinguished visiting professor, 2005.

Augsburg Golden Book of Peace, 2006.

Dr honoris causa, Uhniversidad Autonoma de Puebla, 2006, law.

Honorary member of the Green Party, 2009.

Erik Bye Memorial Prize, 2011.

Dr honoris causa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2017, political science.

Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

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