Look at the conflict, not the violence: How to achieve an enduring peace in Gaza

Look at the conflict, not the violence: How to achieve an enduring peace in Gaza

Jan Oberg at China’s global television network CGTN – “The Point” with Liu Xin Originally broadcast on November 23, 2023 Go to the video too, and see the very positive comments there. People around the world are most receptive to thoughts on peace when they get a chance to listen to them – which they […]

Israel-Palestine: What Peace Looks Like – A 2008 Perspective

Israel-Palestine: What Peace Looks Like – A 2008 Perspective

Johan Galtung, TFF Associate This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 22 Sep 2008. October 27, 2023 Israel and Palestine met for peace this weekend or, rather, so did positive parts of their civil societies, under the good auspices not of Italy’s government but of the Regione Toscana, in Pisa, where a […]

The myth of Israel’s ‘self defence’

The myth of Israel’s ‘self defence’

David Hearst October 26, 2023 TFF Associate professor Farhang Jahanpour in Oxford writes: “Anyone who wants to learn the truth about what is going on in Gaza and Israel should watch this short video which not only deals with the carnage in Gaza but also puts forward a solution to the conflict. David Hearst is […]

SPAR – Silk Peace Art Road – New TFF cooperative project

SPAR – Silk Peace Art Road – New TFF cooperative project

“Mops And More” © Jan Oberg 2023 Jan Oberg October 20, 2023 I assume that most readers here know me as a peace and conflict researcher and as co-founder and director of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, TFF. However, since 2009, I’ve also worked as an art photographer, done projects, and arranged […]

NATO/EU heading for another kakistocratic politico-moral disaster

NATO/EU heading for another kakistocratic politico-moral disaster

Palestinians search the rubble of destroyed buildings following an Israeli strike, as battles between Israel and the Hamas movement continue for the sixth consecutive day in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 12, 2023.© Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images Jan Oberg October 12, 2023 This is the text of TFF […]

RT’s “Worlds Apart” with Jan Oberg

RT’s “Worlds Apart” with Jan Oberg

A discussion with Oksana Boyko about violence and war where the focus is on principles, ideas, concepts and ways of thinking. A delightful exchange of views that would be difficult, if not impossible, to have in similar leading media in the NATO/EU countries. For once, actually, the focus is on how to think about peace… […]

Support Julian Assange before it’s too late

Support Julian Assange before it’s too late

Deeply moving and concise statement by Yanis Varoufakis October 8, 2023 The Nobel “Peace” Committee should have rewarded Julian Assange for his long service in fighting wars – by revealing how they are master-minded and fought with no connection to official explanations and narratives. It would then also have done something for the freedom of […]

The U.S. Cold War Against China Is Self-Destructive

The U.S. Cold War Against China Is Self-Destructive

Jan Oberg Originally published by Global Times, Beijing, on September 5, 2023 September 28, 2023 A couple of years ago, The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, TFF, in Sweden, of which I am the director, published ”Behind The Smokescreen. An Analysis of the West’s Destructive China Cold War Agenda And Why It Must […]

Has China changed in the last few years? Some travel observations

Has China changed in the last few years? Some travel observations

© Jan Oberg “Biking Mom in Xian” Collage – 2023 Thore Vestby TFF Board member September 27, 2023 Certainly, China has evolved continually and progressively, step by step. My expectations were high when I visited this autumn, my first trip post-pandemic. Between 2015 and 2020, I had visited this vast country almost 20 times. Each […]

The U.S. destruction of Nord Stream Anniversary

The U.S. destruction of Nord Stream Anniversary

The destruction of Nord Stream – Anniversary on September 26.
Keep demanding that objective investigations are made so we can get the truth about this single biggest piece of economic warfare since 1945 in Europe.