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A 7 page paper which examines Johan Galtung,
his views concerning violence and peace, and his contributions to understanding violence
and peace. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
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seriously look to the future in terms of seeing how we can end violence and find peace. That is the mission of Johan Galtung, a famous academic spokesman and professor
of peace. His works touch on perhaps all aspects of violence and he proposes intriguing and perhaps innovative ways of understanding how we could perhaps achieve a peaceful world. The
following paper examines who Johan Galtung is and what his work entails. The paper then discusses his work towards structural violence. Johan Galtung "Johan Galtung was born to
Norwegian parents in 1930. He has had an international academic career spanning 40 years, five continents, a dozen major positions and over 30 Visiting Professorships, 70 books and more than
1,000 published monographs" (Johan Galtung (1987) - Honorary Award, 2003). Initially he was intending to be a mathematician but then turned to the study of social sciences. "Galtung published his
influential Theory and Methods of Social Research (Allen & Unwin) in 1967. Eight years earlier he had set up the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, the first institute of
its kind to mark a mark in the academic world, and was its Director for 10 years" (Johan Galtung (1987) - Honorary Award, 2003). He also founded the "Journal
of Peace Research at the University of Oslo from 1969-77, during which period he also helped to found the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, as a meeting place for East
and West, and was for four years its first Director General. Senior university positions followed in succeeding years, interspersed with consultancies to the whole range of UN agencies: UNESCO, UNCTAD,
WHO, ILO, FAO, UNU, UNEP, UNIDO, UNDP, UNITAR and UNRISD" (Johan Galtung (1987) - Honorary Award, 2003). Clearly his work and his titles and involvement are impressive and as such
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