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Tom Weber Born in 1950 in Melbourne. Degrees in Law and Criminology. PhD.in Social Sciences, La Trobe University 1991. Co-ordinates the Peace Studies Area at La Trobe University in Melbourne and teaches in the Politics Department. Weber’s main publications are: On the Salt March: The Historiography of Gandhi’s March to Dandi, New Delhi, HarperCollins (1997); Gandhi’s Peace Army: The Shanti Sena and Unarmed Peacekeeping, New York, Syracuse University Press (1996). Conflict Resolution and Gandhian Ethics, New Delhi; Gandhi Peace Foundation (1991). Hugging the Trees: The Story of the Chipko Movement New Delhi; Viking (1988, published as a Penguin paperback in 1989). With Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, he is working on a book on grassroots initiatives in unarmed peacekeeping titled “ Nonviolent Intervention Across Borders: A Recurrent Vision,” the Matsunaga Institute for Peace, Honolulu 2000. Tom Weber joined the foundation as adviser in 1996. Address Department of Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and...

Kai Frithjof Brand-Jakobsen Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen is founder and Director of the Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) and Co-Director of TRANSCEND, and is on the Executive Board of the TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU) where he is Course Director for the courses Peacebuilding and Empowerment and War to Peace Transitions. He has worked in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Russia, South Eastern Europe, North America, Colombia, Somalia, Cambodia, Aceh-Indonesia and the Middle East at the invitation of governments, inter-governmental organisations, UN agencies, and local organisations and communities. He has written and published widely, and is author of The Struggle Continues: The Political Economy of Globalisation and People’s Struggles for Peace (Pluto, forthcoming), co-author, together with Johan Galtung and Carl Jacobsen, of Searching for Peace: The Road to TRANSCEND (Pluto, 2000 & 2002) and Editor of the TRANSCEND book series published together with Pluto Press, Constructive Peace Studies: Peace...

Articles by Richard Falk The most recent on top Richard Falk, January 15, 2012 Healing wounds: Seeking closure for the 1915 Armenian massacres Richard Falk, January 6, 2012 Remembering the best and the worst of 2011 Richard Falk, December 12, 2011 Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal: Bush and Blair are guilty Richard Falk, November 29, 2011 On (im)balance and credibility in America: Israel/Palestine Richard Falk, November 23, 2011 Poetic reflections on two occupation Richard Falk, November 24, 2011 Language, law and truth On how presidental candidates endorse torture but calls it something else Richard Falk, November 17, 2011 Turkey’s brilliant statecraft: The achievements of Ahmet Davutoglu Richard Falk, November 13, 2011 Criminalizing diplomacy: Fanning the flames of the Iran war option Richard Falk and others, November 10, 2011 Occupy Movement: Two texts in solidarit Richard Falk, November 9, 2011 Global revolution after Tahrir Square Richard Falk, November 9, 2011 Rejecting...

Articles by Sören Sommelius The most recent on top Sören Sommelius, August 30, 2011 En fallen hjälte. Recension av Tariq Ali’s svidande kritik av Obama Sören Sommelius, 2:e augusti 2011 Photo exhibition "Between War and Peace" at Oberg PhotoGraphics in Lund, Sweden. To visit: Call +46 (0)738 52 52 00 Ends August 14. Sören Sommelius, 29:e mars 2011 Svenskt flyg har inte i Libyenkriget att göra! Sören Sommelius 13 februari 2011 Fox News och Aljazeeras bevakning av Egypten Sören Sommelius, 11/2 Idag är vi alla egyptier! Sören Sommelius, January 15, 2011 Från King Jr. till WikiLeaks på 82-års dagen Kultur-Sörens blogg Lever skrivande, på HD:s kultursida, i böcker och i min dagbok. Ser världen som text. Och bild, fotar. Nyfiken, bloggen en utmaning. Är mot krig och dumhet. För icke-våld. Misstror enkla sanningar. Sören Sommelius recenserar – 13. december 2008 Vägen till kaos – USA:s politiska haveri i Afghanistan, Pakistan...

Maj Britt Theorin Born 1932. Former member of the European Parliament – Chairperson of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities; deputy member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence Policy. Ms. Theorin has devoted her political life to disarmament, social justice and the advancement of women. She has been Chairperson of the World Women Parliamentarians 1985-86 and President of Parliamentarians for Global Action since 1995. She chaired the Swedish Disarmament Commission 1982-91 and serves also today as Chairperson of the International Peace Bureau. She chaired the UN’s Commission of Experts on Nuclear Weapons 1989-90 and the UN’s Expert Committee on the Reallocation of Military Spending to the Environment 1990-91. She chaired the UN’s Commission of Experts on Equality and the Agenda for Peace 1994 and was a member of the Canberrra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons 1995-96. She holds an honorary doctor’s degree at...

Articles by Jørgen Johansen The most recent on top New Reader/Textbook in peace Peace and Conflict Studies Edited by Charles Webel and TFF Associate Jorgen Johansen Theories, methodologies and approaches to understanding peace and transforming conflict. Published on December 14, 2011 Jørgen Johansen, Tormod Otter Johansson, Majken Jul Sørensen, August 29, 2011 Politisk satir begränsas av Stiftelsen för Internetinfrastruktur Jørgen Johansen, May 16, 2011 Supporting revolutions – the role of non-violent change there and elsewhere Jørgen Johansen, 28 mars, 2011 Vilket krig är på gång? Jørgen Johansen, July 28, 2010 (re-published from 2005) Peace Research needs to re-orient Jorgen Johansen, April 16, 2010 Hitler and the challenge of non-violence Could Hitler have been defeated somehow if non-violent resistance had been more systematically mobilised? An "eternal" and highly interesting discussion. See also Brian Martin, The Nazis and Nonviolence Jørgen Johansen, 4. april 2010 Taler om international ikkevoldelig styrke til Sri Lanka...

Jake Lynch Jake Lynch’s book, Peace Journalism, is published by Hawthorn Press. He is a BBC television news anchor and reporter, and Director of Reporting the World, which the Observer newspaper called, ‘the nearest thing we have to a journalism think-tank’. He is an experienced international reporter in newspapers and television. He was the Independent’s Sydney correspondent in 1998-9 and covered the Nato briefings for Sky News throughout the Kosovo crisis. Publications include: – Refereed chapters in several books including Democratising Global Media (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) – Numerous articles for peer-reviewed journals including the British Journalism Review and Social Alternatives – Think-tank reports The Peace Journalism Option (1998); What Are Journalists For? (1999); Reporting the World – a practical checklist for the ethical reporting of conflicts in the 21st century (2002) and the TRANSCEND manual, Peace Journalism – What is it? How to do it? – Peace Journalism video...

Articles by Chaiwat Satha-Anand The most recent on top Chaiwat Satha-Anand, September 14, 2010 Understanding the threats of Quran burning Chaiwat Satha-Anand, May 31, 2010 The violence effect and reconciliation future Chaiwat Satha-Anand, April 14, 2010 Courting nonviolent confrontation in a Thai house divided – What can be done? Background written before the April clashes. Chaiwat Satha-Anand, July 2, 2009 The power of words: Understanding Obama’s speech in Cairo An originally conceived analysis of what Obama does with words… Chaiwat Satha-Anand, December 4, 2008 The crisis in Thailand Conflict, nonviolence, prognosis and solutions Chaiwat Satha-Anand, August 4, 2008 Ants, birds, infants and humans: Notes on Islam and non-killing politics Nonkilling politics, legitimized by Islamic teachings, could be seen as the alternative remaking of politics for Muslims in the fast changing public sphere. Chaiwat Satha-Anand, March 4, 2008 October 6, 1976 and the case of collective amnesia? Chaiwat Satha-Anand, October 4,...

Articles by Chaiwat Satha-Anand The most recent on top Chaiwat Satha-Anand, September 14, 2010 Understanding the threats of Quran burning Chaiwat Satha-Anand, May 31, 2010 The violence effect and reconciliation future Chaiwat Satha-Anand, April 14, 2010 Courting nonviolent confrontation in a Thai house divided – What can be done? Background written before the April clashes. Chaiwat Satha-Anand, July 2, 2009 The power of words: Understanding Obama’s speech in Cairo An originally conceived analysis of what Obama does with words… Chaiwat Satha-Anand, December 4, 2008 The crisis in Thailand Conflict, nonviolence, prognosis and solutions Chaiwat Satha-Anand, August 4, 2008 Ants, birds, infants and humans: Notes on Islam and non-killing politics Nonkilling politics, legitimized by Islamic teachings, could be seen as the alternative remaking of politics for Muslims in the fast changing public sphere. Chaiwat Satha-Anand, March 4, 2008 October 6, 1976 and the case of collective amnesia? Chaiwat Satha-Anand, October 4,...

Articles by Jann Oberg The most recent on top – See also Oberg’s columns in Nordic languages here and Kalejdoskop articles in Nordic languages. 2011 Jan Oberg, October 7, 2011 The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize – positive and negative aspects Jan Oberg, September 3, 2011 Libya – What Should Have Been Done? A 3-part status with predictions after the first 6 months of yet another failed conflict-management. Please help spread it because the media will most likely ignore it. Part I – Prologue: What We Should Have Learned By Now Part II – What Should Have Been Done Before the NATO/US Decision to Bomb? Part III Status 6 Months Later and Some – Hopefully Wrong – Predictions Jan Oberg, June 13, 2011 NATO at the crossroads after Gates’ speech Comments to Associated Press Jan Oberg, April 28, 2011 Conversation about the situation in Libya and other Middle East – on...

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