“Liberating the United Nations: Realism with Hope”

“Liberating the United Nations: Realism with Hope”

Review of this new book by TFF Associates Richard Falk and Hans von Sponeck John Burley August 21, 2024 Contemporary reports of the birth of the United Nations in June 1945 in San Francisco warmly welcomed the news of its establishment and congratulated the United States for conceiving and delivering the new international organisation. President […]

Religions: There Is Gentle Wisdom In Them All

Religions: There Is Gentle Wisdom In Them All

Easter Island Rapa Nui Johan Galtung July 11, 2024 “Best wishes for the Season,” we easily write and read these days. So let us reflect on religare, reconnect between that out there and that in here, in us, for globalizing truths. A few years ago, these unpublished lines for the Season were written in the […]

TFF Associate Chaiwat Satha-Anand has died at 69

TFF Associate Chaiwat Satha-Anand has died at 69

Jan Oberg July 7, 2024 TFF Associate, Professor Chaiwat Satha-Anand has died at 69: Professor of nonviolence who opened path to peace in Thailand Noblest and kindest among – and for – humanity. TFF Associate since 1991 and a dear friend of Christina and me since before that, a great scholar of nonviolence, a mediator […]

Address by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Conference Marking the 70th Anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence

Address by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Conference Marking the 70th Anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence

Photo © Jan Oberg 2024 July 5, 2024 Please find below a link to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s remarkable speech on the highly significant event for future world peace. TFF’s Jan Oberg was invited to attend the conference (and took the above photo from a long distance in the Great Hall of the People). When […]

Service in Dissent: Joint Statement of U.S. Government Officials Who Have Resigned over U.S. policy towards Gaza, Palestine, and Israel

Service in Dissent: Joint Statement of U.S. Government Officials Who Have Resigned over U.S. policy towards Gaza, Palestine, and Israel

July 4, 2024 “Each of us has had our own experience of the cascading failures of process, leadership, and decision-making that have characterized this Administration’s intransigent response to this continuing calamity. Taken together, these paint a picture of an overlapping and systemic set of problems in this Administration’s policy approach, and a series of warnings […]

Why does the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence stand stronger today?

Why does the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence stand stronger today?

Panel discussion on CGTN’s Dialogue with Xu Qinduo July 4, 2024 Of course, you have heard nothing about these globally important Five Principles in the Western mainstream press – whereas it will fill you with NATO propaganda around July 9-11, 2024, when the alliance celebrates its 75th Anniversary. TFF’s director, Jan Oberg, was honoured to […]

SIPRI – “The independent source on global security” – supports NATO with mainly NATO countries’ funding

SIPRI – “The independent source on global security” – supports NATO with mainly NATO countries’ funding

The world famous Swedish-based flagship institute stopped doing peace research long ago. To be honest, it ought to change its name. Below is a proposal. Jan Oberg April 23, 2024 When NATO turned 75, the director of SIPRI – formally, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – Dan Smith wrote this diplomatic wishy-washy essay about the […]

How we can avoid war in Europe and stand for peace

How we can avoid war in Europe and stand for peace

Jan Oberg March 19, 2024 I was very pleased to be re-invited very quickly to “Through the Eyes of…” run by Ania K, whose YouTube channel has more than 100,000 subscribers. Please watch our conversation here and also run through the many – 99% appreciative – comments. There is no doubt that people want to […]

Pacifism Today: A Dialogue about Alternatives to War in Ukraine

Pacifism Today: A Dialogue about Alternatives to War in Ukraine

Majken Jul Sørensen March 11, 2024 Dedication To all the brave people who refuse to participate in war, in Ukraine, Russia and everywhere else. “War is a crime against humanity. I am therefore determined not to support any kind of war, and to strive for the removal of all causes of war” The pacifist declaration […]

A regional strategy for sustainable peace for Israel & Palestine: [1]-[2]-[6]-[20]

A regional strategy for sustainable peace for Israel & Palestine: [1]-[2]-[6]-[20]

Cole Keister on Unsplash Johan Galtung (1930-2024) February 20, 2024 IntroJohan Galtung published a comprehensive peace plan for the Middle East as early as 1971 – in the Journal of Peace Research (JPR). However, today SAGE Publications seems not ashamed to charge you £ 29 to download single articles. So here is a 2015 short […]

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