Baggrunden for bogen er forfatterens systematiske bestræbelse på at tilvejebringe et teoretisk grundlag for fredsforskning, konfliktforskning og fredsaktioner. Bogen er organiseret i 4 dele: 1)Fredsteori. 2)Konfliktteori. 3)Udviklingsteori. 4)Civilisationsteori. Bogen afsluttes …
"Johan Galtung, one of the founders of modern peace studies, describes his reason for writing this book as a 'systematic effort to give a theoretical foundation for peace research, peace education, and peace action'. As such, it provides a stimulating and wide-ranging panorama o…
Johan Galtung, one of the founders of modern peace studies, provides a wide-ranging panorama of the ideas, theories and assumptions on which the study of peace is based. The book is organized in four parts, each examining the one of the four major theoretical approaches to peace.
Johan Galtung, one of the founders of modern peace studies, describes his reason for writing this book as a 'systematic effort to give a theoretical foundation for peace research, peace education, and peace action'. As such, it provides a stimulating and wide-ranging panorama of…
Johan Galtung, one of the founders of modern peace studies, describes his reason for writing this book as a 'systematic effort to give a theoretical foundation for peace research, peace education, and peace action'. As such, it provides a stimulating and wide-ranging panorama of…
The human race has often put a high value on struggle, strife, turmoil, and excitement. Peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps dull ideal or as some random element over which we have no control. However, the desperate necessities of the nuclear age have forc…
This 1978 book offers a number of reasonable and easily attainable policies directed toward the goal of a stable peace in the nuclear age. His recommendations include the removal of national boundaries from political agendas, the encouragement of reciprocal acts of good will bet…
