April 3, 2026 Hade nyligen det verkliga nöjet att få besök av Dissidentklubben/Podden i Sverige. Kerstin Ekström gjorde en intervju på över 60 minuter där vi kommer långt omkring och där jag också talar lite om vad fredsforskning är och hur underbart det är att ägna sig åt något så viktigt som fred – positiv […]
Jan Öberg, TFF direktör 19:e mars 2026 Det talas ofta om att Sverige befinner sig i det allvarligaste säkerhetspolitiska läget sedan andra världskriget. Det kan mycket väl stämma. Men det är också sant att den hotbild som nu dominerar svensk politik är så naiv, snäv och NATO-militärt fixerad att den sannolikt gör oss mindre säkra, […]
Jan Oberg TFF director February 28, 2026 Today, USrael attacked Iran, for the second time within just one year. Today also marks the 40th Anniversary of the murder of Swedish PM Olof Palme (1927-1986). In the video below, Palme condemns the US bombings of Hanoi, Vietnam, at Xmas 1972. He paid a price for it. […]
PART 2 — Diplomacy, Law and Nonviolent Power By Jan ObergTFF co-founder and director January 26, 2026 This is the second of four TFF-created idea portfolios designed to curb the global reach of the United States and, in both the short and long term, help catalyse a worldwide nonviolent resistance to what many observers describe […]
August 12, 2025 Professor Zhang Weiwei is a highly respected Chinese intellectual and professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. He is the director of its China Institute and also runs a series of conversations with many different people around the world. Here is what came out of their meetings there and in Skopje, Macedonia in […]
Jan Oberg April 10, 2025 Today is 9 April. It marks the 80th Anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Denmark. Denmark’s Radio reports today on how the country’s war museums have become ‘attractions’ where people queue to get in and go on guided tours, and ticket sales are booming. Of course, it never occurs to anyone […]
Jan Oberg January 15, 2025 Five years ago, Trump wanted to buy Greenland, got Danish PM Mette Fredriksen’s response that it was ‘absurd’ and then cancelled his visit and scolded her to the point where all the trousers in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were shaking. Shortly afterwards – as a plaster on his wounds? […]
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 […]
The agreement has much more serious consequences for Sweden than the people have been told – and it’s a binding agreement that shall be debated in parliament ex-post in violation of normal democratic procedures. We publish it in English to alert an international audience to the DCS’s extremely problematic character and warn other countries not […]
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 […]