Jan Oberg February 19, 2026 What a thrill to be interviewed by former British diplomat Ian Proud! Don’t waste a minute: acquaint yourself with him here on his homepage, which he elegantly calls “Proud Diplomat.” Notice also his book, A Misfit In Moscow. Ian is, of course, also on Substack, where he calls himself The Peace Monger, and recently he set up his own PeaceMonger Channel on YouTube. For once, I was not interviewed as if I were a military geopolitical expert, where I normally have to twist the whole thing in the direction of peace. No, we both had a focus on peace – why it has been disappeared by research, politics and the media, but also what can be done to shape a more peaceful future for us all. One idea we came up with was that of connecting people through citizens diplomacy – in an era where...
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As an African peace researcher i realize the challenges of discerning best ways of circumventing Western machinations against sustainable peace in Africa. Even some of the greatest think tanks in the Western world (this is the world that African scholars are familiar with), one unfortunately discovers are not purveyors of the truth but national and racial interest. Given Western world dominance of internet based sources of information, it is a herculean task to find oasis of truth such as offered by Transcend.