27 Facts About Johan Galtung

Johan Vincent Galtung was a Norwegian sociologist and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies.

Johan Galtung was the main founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo in 1959 and was its first director until 1970.

Johan Galtung established the Journal of Peace Research in 1964.

Johan Galtung resigned his Oslo professorship in 1977 and thereafter held professorships at several other universities; from 1993 to 2000 he taught as Distinguished Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Hawaii.

Johan Galtung was the Tun Mahathir Professor of Global Peace at the International Islamic University Malaysia until 2015.

The Johan Galtung name has its origins in Hordaland, where his paternal grandfather was born.

Johan Galtung experienced World War II in German-occupied Norway, and as a 12-year-old saw his father arrested by the Nazis.

Johan Galtung died in Stabekk Helsehus og Hospice, Baerum, Norway, on 17 February 2024, at the age of 93.

In 1959, Johan Galtung returned to Oslo, where he founded the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

In 1964, Johan Galtung led PRIO to establish the first academic journal devoted to Peace Studies: the Journal of Peace Research.

Johan Galtung was the director general of the International University Centre in Dubrovnik and helped to found and lead the World Future Studies Federation.

Johan Galtung was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Jacklyn Cock's 1989 paper in the Review of African Political Economy applied Johan Galtung's theory of structural violence, analysing the role of militarized society under the apartheid regime of South Africa in the development of patriarchal values that is a form of structural violence against women.

Johan Galtung defines cultural violence as ideas, consciousness, language, art, or science that can be used to legitimize or enable direct violence or structural violence.

Johan Galtung expanded on the concept of cultural violence in a 1990 paper published in the Journal of Peace Research.

Johan Galtung has discussed various forms of violence, including structural and cultural violence, in his extensive body of work.

Johan Galtung has been critical of Zionism, particularly in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has linked it to broader themes of structural violence.

Johan Galtung has framed Zionism within his broader theories of structural and cultural violence, suggesting that the establishment and actions of the state of Israel have contributed to ongoing conflict and suffering in the region.

In terms of reinforcing factors, Johan Galtung identifies six key areas:.

Johan Galtung uses very broad definitions of violence, conflict and peace, and applies the terms of mean both direct and indirect, negative and positive, and violence in which one cannot distinguish actors or victims, which serves to limit the direct application of the model itself.

Johan Galtung uses a positivist approach, in that he assumes that every rational tenet of the theory can be verified, serving to reject social processes beyond relationships and actions.

In Johan Galtung's view, addressing the root causes of violence requires peacebuilding which goes beyond ending direct violence to end structural violence and cultural violence.

Johan Galtung has held several significant positions in international research councils and has been an advisor to several international organisations.

Johan Galtung stated that the US is a "killer country" guilty of "neo-fascist state terrorism" and compared the US to Nazi Germany for bombing Kosovo during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

Johan Galtung recommended that people should read The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated antisemitic text purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global domination.

In defending his claims that Jews control American media companies, Johan Galtung cited an article published by National Vanguard, a neo-Nazi organization.

Johan Galtung has published more than a thousand articles and over a hundred books.