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“You can reload your rifle, and that moment you’re reloading it, that’s peace.”— Bob Dylan1 Columbia Daily Spectator Summary Frantz Fanon’s psychoanalytic endorsement of violence and Mohandas Gandhi’s…
Henrik Urdal | PRIO – TRANSCEND Media Service 15 May 2019 – The Second World War had a lasting effect on me. Especially because my beloved father was imprisoned…
January 2014 – Some 50 years ago I had been puzzled so much by two problems in connection with foreign news that I decided to do some research…
A conflict analysis is a nonnegotiable first step when preparing a conflict transformation and peacebuilding intervention. Understanding violence is part and parcel of this initial assessment. Johan Galtung’s Triangle is…
Here is a Table with fifteen faiths organized according to mono-poly-pan-atheism; some might find the table somewhat controversial: Table 1. Figures of thought, faiths, and beliefs of true believers…
If you’re looking for a treatise on the joys of love-making between consenting, autonomous adults, read no further. In fact, what follows quite the inverse, revealing an ongoing…
On Sunday evening, 9 June 2019, a Peul militia attacked a Dogon village in central Mali, killing over 100 people, wounding others, and then burning down the village.…
Sous le coup de minuit, la Commission électorale nationale indépendante (CENI) a donné le go pour la campagne de l’élection des Gouverneurs et Vice-Gouverneurs de provinces prévue pour…
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service Do you know anyone who genuinely loves their job, greeting each new work day with focused energy and joyful anticipation? Do you…
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service 25 Jan 2019 – Today at 2 p.m. the members of the constitutional Court sworn in the fifth President of the Democratic…
9 December was the 70th anniversary of the 1948 Genocide Convention. The Convention was written in the light of the events of the Second World War, then…
Tara Copp The White House late Tuesday signed a memo allowing troops stationed at the border to engage in some law enforcement roles and use lethal force, if…
Under a midday blazing sun in Kampala, we are driving hesitantly over the newly paved roads of Nsambya and Katwe suburb. A pedestrian signals us to stop and…
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service “Keshagesh means Greedy Guts. It’s what you call a little puppy who eats his own food and then wants everybody else’s.” –Buffy…
In a 26 June 2018 address to the United Nations Security Council, Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General, reviewed the conflict situations in the Middle East – its profound divisions,…
ANGOLA has destroyed more than 14 000 landmines planted in the country during its 27-year civil war. The mines are a deadly remnant of the civil war, one…
As Such, It Is a State Duty Switzerland Recognized In memoriam: Nathalie, Solange, Lambert, Donatella, René, Francis, so many others… The best prevention of suicide is to be…
The violence pandemic continues, unabated, particularly in the USA. We read about bad incidents in other big countries like China, India and Russia but not massive school and…
On February 29, 2004, the constitutional government of Haiti was overthrown, bringing Haiti’s ten-year experience with democracy to a brutal end. Orchestrated by the United States, France and…
Missing Conflict Literacy The example is Robert Malley “10 Conflicts to Watch in 2018“, in Foreign Policy (USA) 2 Jan 2018: 1- North Korea, 2- US-Saudi-Iran rivalry, 3-…
What does Johan Galtung think about Racism? It is very different from what Morgenbladetpublished after his lecture on Racism and Antisemitism. The journalist was not capable of distinguishing…
This article by Ernest Wamba Dia Wamba originally appeared in Philosophy and Social Action XI (3) 1985, and has been edited for clarity. Discussions about democracy in Africa,…
The relentless attacks on democracy in Haiti continue as Haitians, who have lived under United Nations MINUSTAH military occupation since the 2004coup d’etat against popularly elected president Jean-Bertrand…
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service Human beings are social creatures whose survival depends on cooperation and mutual support. Only in an atmosphere of perceived scarcity, threats and…
A lot is happening. As in “Trump’s First Hundred Days of War Crimes” (CouterPunch 19 May 2017), breaking international law as if it did not exist, killing in…