A peaceful world can often look like an impossible dream. Especially lately. We may feel overwhelmed, helpless, and powerless when we read news about what
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Positive Peace, what is it?
Peace has been a condition of survival for humans throughout time. In times of war, it is not possible to achieve the levels of cooperation
Johan Galtung – The Father of Peace Studies
Johan Galtung born in Oslo on October 24, 1930, is a Norwegian sociologist and mathematician. In 1959 he founded the Oslo Peace Research Institute (PRIO)
Characterising the Notion of Positive Peace
Just as ‘peace education’ was born in the 1920s as a reaction to the destruction and death caused during the First World War, in turn
An overview of global peace and unrest during the Covid-19 pandemic
The 15th edition of the annual Global Peace Index report, the world’s leading measure of this study, revealed that in 2021 the average level of
Global peace index: best and worst scores
What makes a country peaceful? What threatens its peacefulness? After last week’s insight on the Global Peace Index and how it works, this week we
Financial Implications of War and Peace in The Middle East
The geopolitical scenario of the Middle East has undergone significant rearrangements since the end of the 20th century. The Gulf War, the aggression against Iraq
Negative peace… Positive peace…
The smoke is clearing, the fires have been put out. There are no guns firing in the background, no bombs that loudly explode somewhere near.
Positive peace and the rise of populism in Europe
Political scientist and professor Peter Taggart have lately said that populism is “one of the most widely used but poorly understood political concepts of our
Peace for the people
“Professor Johan Galtung […] explained that the concept of peace can be categorized into two types: negative and positive. Negative peace is a simple absence