Janina Soentgen
@pieceofpeace
Active 12 years, 2 months ago-
Naakow Grant-Hayford started the forum topic BASIC NEED 3/4: FREEDOM in the group
Anything Galtung 12 years, 9 months agoFreedom to choose what to do with one’s own life.
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Naakow Grant-Hayford started the forum topic POWER 4/4: INTELLECTUAL & CULTURAL in the group
International Relations, Politics, Conflict, War & Peace, R2P, Human Rights 12 years, 9 months agoPertaining to:
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2- Science & Knowledge
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Naakow Grant-Hayford started the forum topic POWER 3/4: ECONOMIC in the group
International Relations, Politics, Conflict, War & Peace, R2P, Human Rights 12 years, 9 months agoPertaining to Economic Faultlines
1- Banking: Finance Economy vs. Real Economy
2- Equality: Income; Living Standards; Rich vs. Poor; Economic Human Rights
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Naakow Grant-Hayford started the forum topic POWER 2/4: POLITICAL & DECISIONMAKING in the group
International Relations, Politics, Conflict, War & Peace, R2P, Human Rights 12 years, 9 months agoPoltics – Polity – Policy
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Naakow Grant-Hayford started the forum topic POWER 1/4: MILITARY & SECURITY in the group
International Relations, Politics, Conflict, War & Peace, R2P, Human Rights 12 years, 9 months agoCoercive & Martial Narratives and “Solutions”
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Naakow Grant-Hayford replied to the forum topic MILITARY & SECURITY POWER in the group
International Relations, Politics, Conflict, War & Peace, R2P, Human Rights 12 years, 9 months agoThe nuclear market: “the most profitable nuclear sales prospect is not overseas reactors, where profit margins can be negative. Instead, it’s supplying nuclear fuel to run the U.S.’s 104 power reactors, the […]
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Naakow Grant-Hayford started the forum topic EGYPT WATCH in the group
International Relations, Politics, Conflict, War & Peace, R2P, Human Rights 12 years, 9 months agoPost-Tahrir-world
Regarding thee Elections: “By the time the actual first results came through last week (NGH: End of November 2011), the Brothers had racked up 40 percent of the vote – in Cairo and […]
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Naakow Grant-Hayford replied to the forum topic MILITARY & SECURITY POWER in the group
International Relations, Politics, Conflict, War & Peace, R2P, Human Rights 12 years, 9 months ago“Since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact two decades ago we have lived in a supposedly “unipolar” world. Yet somehow it doesn’t seem like that, does it? ” (…) To assume that Western technology in and of […]
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OSIRIS replied to the forum topic DIAGNOSIS PROGNOSIS THERAPY – a methodology for encompassig conflict analysis in the group
Anything Galtung 12 years, 9 months agoWhat on earth are you people talking about? Seriously. How does this talk about endogenous internal narratives explain what is going on right now between Iran and the EU? Or regarding the Syrian Government vs. […]
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Federica Riccadonna replied to the forum topic DIAGNOSIS PROGNOSIS THERAPY – a methodology for encompassig conflict analysis in the group
Anything Galtung 12 years, 9 months agoAs you said, this concept is not so easy to understand.
The difficulty is to see the conflict formation in its general context, which is not only inner (emotional), but it has also an outer aspect […]
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Do you mind explaining to me what this internal dimension of conflicts mean in real life? For example in Syria where people are dying right now?
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Dear Osiris, an internal dimension of conflict could be the ATTITUDE of a person of reacting in a violent manner.
For example, in front of the same situation, people act in different ways and this is due to different internal attitude (for different reasons, too long to explore here). In Syria people are fighting for some rights..some are dying in…[Read more]
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OSIRIS replied to the forum topic IRAN WATCH in the group
International Relations, Politics, Conflict, War & Peace, R2P, Human Rights 12 years, 10 months ago[…]
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Naakow Grant-Hayford replied to the forum topic EYE ON IRAN – WHY WAR WON'T WORK in the group
International Relations, Politics, Conflict, War & Peace, R2P, Human Rights 12 years, 10 months ago
IRAN-WATCH: Iranian Exports in crude oil per diem: 2,2 billion in 2010. Income: $ 71,6 Billion = 50% of Iran’s income
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OSIRIS posted an update in the group
International Relations: Conflict, War & Peace 12 years, 10 months ago
This analysis is lackluster and revelatory at the same time. What is wrong with these people always egging us on to war??? -
Monserrat Gonzalez posted an update in the group
Anything Galtung 12 years, 10 months agoWarm greetings everyone from Mexico City, I have a question and hopefully someone can help me, I´m interested in taking the online courses that start on May, do you know if I only have to pay the fee? Or is there anything else I have to do or send?
My best
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Dear Monserrat,
Do you mean the courses that start in March??
Please have a look at the website http://www.transcend.org/tpu/#courses
You can also write an email to: tpu@transcend.org
or contact directly, Karoline Weber, TPU Executive Secretary: weber@transcend.org-
Hi Erika, yes I mean those, I already wrote to those emails but no answer, but thanks, hopefully soon I can get some news from them!!
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Please be sure you will receive accurate information as soon as possible
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I have never studied Galtung’s concept of structural Violence. Can you explain it to me? Everybody in here seems to know what it is about. How does it apply to what is going on in Syria and Iran for example?
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Naakow Grant-Hayford posted an update in the group
Anything Galtung 12 years, 10 months agoStructural Violence. Dear Mrs. Gonzalez, please let us know which aspect of it you are working on and with 🙂 Sounds exciting.
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Dear Mrs. Gonzales, your research is on “how external development aid agents and agencies reproduce structural and cultural violence in the Huichol indigenous community”. Are you speaking about governmental agencies which reproduce internal policies or also international NGOs?I read some books about how humanitarian aid agencies can influence this…[Read more]
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Dear Federica, I´m working on international and national NGO´s, but I´m also taking a look at national programs and policies (as they provide funding and the enabling space for NGO´s action), so please let me know the titles, I really appreciate it, thanks
Regards
Monserrat-
Hi Mrs. Gonzales!!
Well, Here is the author: Linda Polman, I read The Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong with Humanitarian Aid. She makes hard critiques but I think that can broaden our horizons.
Another is Mary Anderson.here the link.. http://www.berghof-handbook.net/documents/…/anderson_handbook.pdf .
In this bibliography you find other two books…[Read more]-
Dear Federica, thank you very much, I´m sure they will be very helpful
best regards
Monserrat
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Naakow Grant-Hayford started the forum topic DIAGNOSIS PROGNOSIS THERAPY – a methodology for encompassig conflict analysis in the group
Anything Galtung 12 years, 12 months agoAbout the Peace by Peaceful Conflict Transformation: TRANSCEND method. It seems, that it isn’t all tooo selfexplanatory and that it is not easy to understand what the difference between outer and inner narrative […]
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Yes, I do not understand this at all.
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