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Tag Archives: Johan Galtung
Ending Violence, Exploitation, Ecological Destruction and War: Creating a Culture of Peace
By Robert J. Burrowes The date 11 November is well known and commemorated in many parts of the world because it marks the Armistice ending World War I – ‘the Great War’ – in 1918. In the evocative words used … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Environment, Philosophy, police state, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, war
Tagged cultural violence, culture, Direct violence, Ecological violence, Education, Exploitation, Institutional violence, invisible violence, Johan Galtung, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Parenting, Peace, Philosophy, police state, psychological violence, psychology, society, Sociology, Structural Violence, war
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Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts
By Robert J. Burrowes While conflict theories and resolution processes advanced dramatically during the second half of the 20th century, particularly thanks to the important work of several key scholars such as Professor Johan Galtung – see ‘Conflict Transformation by … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, culture, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Conflict Resolution, Conflict Theory, Gandhi, Global Economy, Global Elite, Hatred, Israel, Johan Galtung, Myanmar, Nisteling, Nonviolence, Palestine, Philosophy, psychology, Terror, war
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Why War? Building on the legacy of Einstein, Freud and Gandhi
By Robert J. Burrowes In 1932, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein conducted a correspondence subsequently published under the title ‘Why War?’ See ‘Why War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature’. In many ways, this dialogue … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, conditioning, consciousness, culture, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality, war
Tagged Albert Einstein, Johan Galtung, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Nonviolence, Philosophy, psychology, Satyagraha, Sigmund Freud, society, Sociology, Violence, Why War?
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