Peaceful Conflict Transformation – Study with Johan Galtung

24th February 2016

Peaceful Conflict Transformation – Study with Johan Galtung

This week marks the beginning of the Galtung-Institut’s Peaceful Conflict Transformation course for professional conflict literacy. It is conducted as a TRANSCEND Peace University course (See ACT) in cooperation with Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (See PACS6922).

As you’ve made it thus far: let the games begin! Please start right away with this first video lecture on Solution Indicative Conflict Analysis as taught by Prof. Galtung:

In addition to the video, participants have 2 pivotal documents on the underlying epistemology and approach (DPT) to „Peaceful Conflict Transformation“ ready for download in our Digital Class Room.

Epistemological Reflections underlying Solution Indicative Conflict Analysis
Diagnosis – Prognosis – Therapy: The general approach:

Feel free to print them out once you get them. Participants enrolled in Prof. Galtung’s course are asked to read and study them as companions to Prof. Galtung’s lecture on “Breaking The Cycle of Violence” above. Once through, please post your viewing and reading responses in our digital interface at your earliest convenience. In the keynote video above and the 2 papers attached, Prof. Johan Galtung expounds the core tenements of his approach to solution-indicative sociology for conflict transformation – hence his hashtag #SolveTheUnderlyingConflict.

How long should your reading and viewing response be?
As short, as you think is required to make your point. As long, as you deem required. What matters to us in this course is for us to get acquainted with your reflections on the approach Prof. Galtung will be imparting to you during this course. Feel free to include all poignant questions to Prof. Galtung on epistemology, theory, methodology and praxeology of Conflict Transformation. Prof. Galtung will answer them all. Keil Eggers and I will assist you in getting to the bottom of the material shared.

We hope you enjoy studying Peace Studies with the man who in 1959 founded and headed the first faculty of Peace Studies ever to be opened at a University and has kept going and going all the way – and continues to this day – including this very course. As a colleague of his, I can only confirm to you all: This will be one insightful ride.

We shall remain available for detailed questions throughout.

Thanks for the enthusiastic responses so far, hopefully this term is a success without too many technical problems.

Naakow Grant-Hayford