Johan Galtung

Every religion contains, in varying degrees, elements of the soft and the hard. For the sake of world peace, dialogue within religions…

— Johan Galtung

The new book by Nafeez Ahmed, based on very extensive and deep research, is by far the best on the 9/11 syndrome.…

— Johan Galtung

By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

— Johan Galtung

Peace appeals to the hearts; studies to the brain. Both are needed, indeed indispensable. But equally indispensable is a valid link between…

— Johan Galtung

One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big…

— Johan Galtung

“The main focus of the TRANSCEND method3 is not to merely identify who is guilty and punish those, the traditional legal approach,…

— Johan Galtung

“The killed are dead, the bereaved are traumatized. The trauma may be converted to hatred that may be converted into revenge addiction.”

— Johan Galtung

“that the time is always ripe, that the place is here and the time is now.”

— Johan Galtung

“Gandhian economic boycott, however, combined refusal to buy English textiles with the collection of funds for the merchants precisely not to confuse…

— Johan Galtung

As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of war also…

— Johan Galtung

Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity...

— Johan Galtung

The topdog may win the game of force. But not the moral issue - and when that dawns upon him and his…

— Johan Galtung

Marshall took nonviolence a step further - beyond Gandhi.

— Johan Galtung

“Peace is something you make with your adversaries, not with your friends.”

— Johan Galtung