This is the first ever anthology of key articles by Johan Galtung, widely regarded as the founder of the academic discipline of peace studies. It covers such concepts as direct, structural and cultural violence; theories of conflict, development, civilization and peace; peaceful conflict transformat[...]

'Impressive and moving, and very saddening as well ...A particular pleasure to read something not only sensible but even hopeful on methods of moving towards some decent outcome under what appears to be almost hopeless situations.' Noam Chomsky 'Fascinating! This highly condensed and powerful over[...]

Johan Galtung, one of the founders of modern peace studies, provides a wide-ranging panorama of the ideas, theories and assumptions on which the study of peace is based. The book is organized in four parts, each examining the one of the four major theoretical approaches to peace. The first part cove[...]

This is a practical handbook to conflict resolution, that shows how to overcome conflicts at all levels - from personal domestic conflicts, to issue-based struggles about race, class and gender, and finally to major international conflicts between nation states or international divides along economi[...]

In conflict theory there is a mainstream Narrative I: Problem: there are evil forces out there waiting for their time When time comes their evil is articulated as violence Remedy: be strong enough to deter evil and crush it if needed If strong enough there is a gift: security. This book ch[...]

Boken redogör för grunderna för sociala rörelser som en samhällsförändrande kraft. Det handlar om människor som går samman och utför ett ideellt arbete för förbättrade villkor på olika områden.

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