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This homepage contains everything about TFF, its policies, philosophy, programs etc since 1986.

TFF PressInfos & Highlights

May 3, 2017
Safe - or de-escalation - zones in Syria: Very problematic!


Jan Oberg comments on Putin's and Erdogan's proposal



May 1, 2017
Workers of the world, unite for peace! - Jan Oberg on TFF Live

TFF Live on Facebook




April 25, 2017
PressTV's "The Debate" about Syria, the media coverage and international law. Illustrating two perspectives


The Debate - Brutal Bloodshed with Jan Oberg and Richard Millett by presstv



April 8, 2017
The U.S. attack on al-Shayrat airfield. By Richard Falk
TFF PressInfo # 413 - subscribe to it and get the next ones



NEW Since February 2017
TFF Live on Facebook
Follow the pointed comments and educationals - direct broadcast and videos



March 30, 2017
The US general in Europe is dishonest and beyond the rational. By Jan Oberg
Oberg's comments on Sputnik, Soundcloud and article



March 28, 2017
How the UN should respond in the age of global dissent. By Hans von Sponeck, Richard Falk and Denis Halliday
Two TFF Associates, all three UN veterans expression their deep concern but also ways out to save the UN



March 28, 2017
Defending the UN against Trump's erasing the UN. By Richard Falk
TFF PressInfo # 411 - subscribe to it and get the next ones



March 24, 2017
The Meaninglessness Of War. Aleppo. Photo story by Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo # 410 - subscribe to it and get the next ones



March 22, 2017
America's woes and Europe's responsibilities. By Farhang Jahanpour
TFF PressInfo # 409 - subscribe to it and get the next ones



March 3, 2017
"Vittnesrapport från Aleppo, en annorlunda konfliktanalys och vägar till fred i Syrien" -





February 16, 2017
Discussing NATO, Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, Yugoslavia, Syria and the - outdated philosophy NATO is based on - with former U.S. assistant Secretary of Defence, Lawrence Korb





February 5, 2017
School in an Aleppo factory. By Jan Oberg
TFF Photo Story - subscribe to it and get the next ones



January-February 2017
TFF in Syria - Damascus and Aleppo when it fell/was liberated
Most of what Jan Oberg has reported and most of the debate it has caused is, until further, to be found at three places: On TFF's blog, on Facebook and on Exposure (photo stories) - all of them being seen by thousands per day.


January 27, 2017
Comment on Syria ceasefire talks in Astana. By Jan Oberg
Sceptic - wrong approach to peace. But let's hope



January 26, 2017
US Congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard (D) visits Syria. By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo # 399 - subscribe to it and get the next ones



January 25, 2017
Trump's pre-Fascism and progressive populist opportunities. By Richard Falk
TFF PressInfo # 402 - subscribe to it and get the next ones



January 21, 2017
Faces of Aleppo. Just of of 4,5 years of occupation hell. By Jan Oberg
TFF Photo Story - subscribe to it and get the next ones



January 20, 2017
From Obama to Trump. Commenting on the inauguration with David Swanson
Iran's international PressTV - subscribe to it and get the next ones



January 18, 2017
Don't touch the nuclear with Iran, Trump!






January 17, 2017
Jan Oberg speaks at length about the need for a new way of thinking when we handle international conflicts. With US-based Naskah Zada






January 16, 2017
Jan Oberg comments positively on the EU's commitment to the nuclear deal with Iran






January 13, 2017
Syria and Aleppo: Old news media falling. By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo # 398 - subscribe to it and get the next ones





January 5, 2017
Jan Oberg's advocates a new peacebuilding process in Ukraine, warns against arming the OSCE police and argues that the Cold war will change with Trump






December 29, 2016
TFF Photo Story: The humans in liberated Aleppo. By Jan Oberg
TFF Photo Story - subscribe to it and get the next ones



December 28, 2016
TFF Photo Story: The destruction of Eastern Aleppo. By Jan Oberg
TFF Photo Story - subscribe to it and get the next ones



December 18, 2016
TFF PressInfo: Syria's destruction: When everybody think power and no one thinks peace. By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 397



December 12, 2016
Will terrorists return to Europe? And what can be done?
Jan Oberg comments and advocates a new peace policy



November 6, 2016
Jan Oberg's comments on Erdogan's accusation against the West. Correct but he is ot the right man. Imagine instead a Middle East without weapons





November 2, 2016
TFF PressInfo: Just how grey are the White Helmets and their backers? By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 392



October 27, 2016
TFF PressInfo: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, at 50: Now change name to SIMSI - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 391



October 26, 2016
Jan Oberg's comments on games being played by Russia and NATO





October 26, 2016
TFF PressInfo: Ten articles on the New Cold War - By TFF Associates
TFF PressInfo 390



October 17, 2016
Jan Oberg about Syria and how to change the Russia-NATO discourse




October 15, 2016
Predicting that the Lausanne meeting about Syria would fail - By Jan Oberg





September 28, 2016
US Security analyst Lawrence Korb & peace researcher Jan Oberg in debate about U.S. nuclear policies and the No-First Use idea





September 24, 2016
Europe's ongoing failure handling refugees. Interview by PressTV of Jan Oberg
It is a predictable fiasco...



September 18, 2016
Jan Oberg's comments on why the US installs new sanction against Iran even though Iran has fulfilled its promises





September 10, 2016
TFF PressInfo: The War On Terror - A predictable fiasco - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 388



September 4, 2016
Jan Oberg's comments on Chomsky's assertion that Saudi Arabia supports terrorism and the West knows. Oberg criticises the War On Terror and argues that arms trade to hotspots should be criminalised



August 29, 2016
New TFF PressInfo: How did Western Europe cope with a much stronger Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact? - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 386

July 27, 2016
TFF PressInfo # 384 - The Clinton's celebrated - but likely disastrous for the world - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 384

July 26, 2016
TFF PressInfo # 385 - Turkey's Coup - Another example of the West's disintegration - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 385

July 22, 2016
Jan Oberg's comments on the so-called refugee crisis and what the EU should have done and can still do.



Jan Oberg comments on the attack in Nice and generally on the War on Terror
Iranian PressTV, July 19, 2016

Jan Oberg comments on Turkey's coup and NATO
Russia Today, July 16, 2016

July 8, 2016
TFF PressInfo # 383 - Fearology and militarism - But the real enemy is us - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 383

June 28, 2016
TFF PressInfo # 382 - Cheating Moscow - NATO's dangerous expansion - By Jonathan Power
TFF PressInfo 382

June 29, 2016
TFF PressInfo # 381 - Much stronger than during the First Cold War. Why is NATO so irrational? - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 381

June 25, 2016
TFF PressInfo # 380 - Brex'it. So Be'it! And now what? - By Johan Galtung
TFF PressInfo 380

June 24, 2016
TFF PressInfo # 379 - The Brexit Shock - Now all is up in the air! - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 379

June 15, 2016
Jan Oberg in discussion about the New Cold War
"The Heat" on CCTV America lead by Anand Naidoo

June 13, 2016
TFF PressInfo # 378 - A New Cold War Between Russia and the West? - By Jonathan Power
TFF PressInfo 378

June 10, 2016
Jan Oberg's comments on the slow US implementation of the nuclear deal with Iran



June 9, 2016
TFF PressInfo # 377 - Intro to a series: The New Cold War - By Farhang Jahanpour
TFF PressInfo 377

May 30, 2016
TFF PressInfo # 376 - North and South Korea: Can be solved if...! - By Johan Galtung
TFF PressInfo 376

May 26, 2016
TFF PressInfo # 375 - Close Calls: We were closer to nuclear destruction than we knew (2) - By Gunnar Westberg
TFF PressInfo 375

May 26, 2016
TFF PressInfo # 374 - Close Calls: We were closer to nuclear destruction than we knew (1) - By Gunnar Westberg
TFF PressInfo 374

May 25, 2016
TFF PressInfo # 373 - What Obama should do in Hiroshima tomorrow - By Jonathan Power
TFF PressInfo 373

Jan Oberg comments on the Nordic countries' summit in Washington
On Russia Today

April 29, 2016
TFF PressInfo # 372 - Drop the Just War theory and abolish nuclear weapons - By Mairead Maguire
TFF PressInfo 372

April 4, 2016
Jan Oberg's comments on NATO's 67th Anniversary: Perhaps the West cannot live without enemies?



March 30
TFF PressInfo # 369 - A Sunni-Salafist-Zionist Coalition changing the Middle East? - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 369

March 29, 2016
Jan Oberg's comments on the Merkel selfie, lack of EU refugee management and answers what to do if there are terrorists coming among the refugees



March 28, 2016
Jan Oberg's comments on the EU, the Pope, refugees and the weakening of the US Empire



March 18, 2016
Jan Oberg's comments on the EU/Turkey deal



March 17, 2016
Jan Oberg's comments on the Russian withdrawal from Syria - before and after President Putin's speech



March 16, 2016
Will the EU become a criminal Union tomorrow? - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 367

March 15, 2016
Russian withdrawal from Syria: Could it be the beginning of the end? - By Farhang Jahanpour
TFF PressInfo 366

March 4, 2016
Denmark to attack in Syria, too! - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 365

February 25, 2016
Can we give meaning to the destruction of Syria? - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 363

February 24, 2016
Iran's elections and the nuclear deal - By Farhang Jahanpour
TFF PressInfo 362

February 12, 2016
The real news about Nobel's peace prize is here - and it is not Trump - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 361

February 9, 2015
Jan Oberg's comments to NATO's Secretary-General's press conference and NATO's 2015 Report




Jan Oberg's comments on Sweden's army chief saying that Sweden could be at war in a few years




Four articles on Denmark and Sweden and their refugee policies - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 357-360

The deeper reason Syria negotiations are doomed - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 355

Jan Oberg's comments on US Vice-President Joe Biden's confused statement about a political solution with ISIS and a military solution in Syria




Open Letter: Political responsibility in the Nuclear Age - By Richard Falk, David Krieger and Robert Laney
TFF PressInfo 354

TFF launches new online magazine - "Transnational Affairs"
TFF PressInfo 353

Jan Oberg's comments on sanctions on Iran being lifted, on new sanctions imposed and on the decine of the U.S. January 17, 2016




Jan Oberg's comments on Sweden's and Denmark's border control. January 8, 2016




Jan Oberg's comments on the European Union's bizarre refugee policy - and the cases of Denmark and Sweden. December 16, 2015




Jan Oberg's comments on what civilisation means and on why Iran was anyhow not likely to want to go nuclear. On the IAEA report. December 16, 2015




Over 30,000 nuclear workers in the US have died from their work the last 70 years. One more reason to abolish nuclear weapons! Comments on PressTV by Jan Oberg on December 13, 2015




The Nobel Foundation taken to court on the peace prize
TFF PressInfo 351

On NATO's invitation to Montenegro to join the alliance - By Jan Oberg - Comment by Jan Oberg on December 2, 2015




The West will lose to ISIS - too - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 350

Why more bombings and killing is not a constructive response to the shooting down of the Russian plane and to Paris. Do a diagnosis and broaden the response politically - or we'll all be worse off. - Comment on Russia Today by Jan Oberg on November 17, 2015




Burundi's crisis and the world's inability to prevent violence - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 349

After 70 years the UN falls short, and yet... - By Richard Falk
TFF PressInfo 348

The world beyond global disorder - By Johan Galtung
TFF PressInfo 347

Ten articles on the nuclear treaty with Iran - By Farhang Jahanpour
TFF PressInfo 346

The Nobel Peace Prize and Lawsuit - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 345

Can nuclear war be avoided? By Gunnar Westberg
TFF PressInfo 343




Please support our 30th Anniversary Campaign

Our 30 years with peace - And what happened to world peace? Part I and II
TFF PressInfo 342

The largest NATO exercise since the Cold War. What a waste of money when much better methods are available - Comment on Russia Today by Jan Oberg





The iron fist inside the velvet glove by Jonathan Power
TFF PressInfo 342

Greek debt and West-Russia-China-Japan by Johan Galtung
TFF PressInfo 335

TFF turns 30 - Part 2. Jan Oberg on why peace research is about finding solutions.

TFF at 30 - Part 2 Why peace research is about finding solutions from TFF Video Channel on Vimeo.

TFF director Jan Oberg comments on U.S. lawmaker as warmaker - on Iran - August 16, 2015




TFF turns 30 - Part 1. With founders Christina Spannar & Jan Oberg

TFF at 30 - Part 1: How it all began from TFF Video Channel on Vimeo.

"Peace, research and social innovation" - By Jan Oberg




Getting Russia right - By Jonathan Power
TFF PressInfo 334

Look at nuclear weapons in new ways! - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 333

How a weaker Iran got the hegemon to lift the sanctions - By Gareth Porter
TFF PressInfo 331

Nuclear deal is great but hard work ahead - By Farhang Jahanpour
TFF PressInfo 330

Nuclear deal is a victory for civilisation! - By Jan Oberg
Comment to Iran's PressTV

Congratulations and thank you, Iran! - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 329

TFF director Jan Oberg commenting on the nuclear deal with Iran, July 14, 2015




TFF director Jan Oberg commenting on US Secretary of the Airforce, Deborah James' advocacy of higher NATO spending, July 9, 2015




TFF director Jan Oberg commenting on John Kerry's statement about the negotiations with Iran on July 5, 2015




TFF director Jan Oberg commenting on the nuclear talks with Iran on June 29, 2015






With another approach we would have a deal with Iran today - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 328

TFF director Jan Oberg commenting on the nuclear talks with Iran on June 26, 2015



Burundi heading for catastrophe with the world's eyes wide shut - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 327

Outrageous attempts to kill the Iran deal - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 326

TFF director Jan Oberg commenting on US/NATO's build-up in Eastern Europe, June 15, 2015




TFF director Jan Oberg commenting on the situation in Burundi on June 5, 2015



Breaking the promise to Russia - By Jonathan Power
TFF PressInfo 325

The friends of nukes are losing! - By Gunnar Westberg
TFF PressInfo 324

TFF director Jan Oberg commenting on Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland's visit to Kiev and Washington's slightly more reconciliatory tone, May 16, 2015




Burundi: Plan genuine humanitarian intervention now! - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 322

Today's V-Day as a lost opprtunity for peace-making - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 321

Burundi: Denying or hoping won't do - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 320

TFF director Jan Oberg commenting on the military build-up in Europe, on militarism and lack of democracy in security politics, May 6, 2015



Burundi: Early warning and violence-prevention - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 319

Behind every refugee stands an arms trader - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 318

Yemen: The mainstream coverage is grossly misleading - on analyses by Farhang Jahanpour, Stephen Zunes and Gareth Porter on the war on Yemen
TFF PressInfo 317

Iran nuclear deal: They have done it! - By Farhang Jahanpour
TFF PressInfo 316

The Iran nuclear deal
TFF director Jan Oberg commenting on the Iran nuclear deal in Lausanne, April 3, 2015



Happy Norooz - peace in the new year? - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 315

From preventing to making peace in Ukraine - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 314

Ignore the 47 irresponsible US Republican senators - By Farhang Jahanpour and Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 313

Netanyahu's insulting, dangerous and divisive speech. Wrong in detail and wrong in substance - By Farhang Jahanpour
TFF PressInfo 312

Nobel Peace Prize Watch launched - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 311




TFF director Jan Oberg comments on the negotiations about Iran's nuclear technology.



Gareth Porter, one of the world's most respected investigative journalists, joins TFF as Associate

Terrorism - Small Dot In A Larger Picture - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 310



Learn Conflict And Peace In 20 Minutes - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 309




TFF director Jan Oberg comments on political propaganda: Ukraine, media deception and democracy

The Minsk Agreement - A fragile 2nd step - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 308

This is no time to ship lethal arms to Ukraine - By Jonathan Power
TFF PressInfo 307

Islam is not the problem - but keep your own house in order - By Jonathan Power
TFF PressInfo 306

A theory of China - By Johan Galtung
TFF PressInfo 305

The wisdom of expression - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 304

Visit Iran in 2015 and see it for yourself - By Jan Oberg and Farhang Jahanpour.
TFF PressInfo 303

Interview with "Iran Review" - and a word about intellectual freedom - By Jan Oberg.
TFF PressInfo 302

Open Letter to Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum - By Kamran Mofid.
TFF PressInfo 301

"We are all Charlie" - but is that story so simple? - By Jan Oberg.
TFF PressInfo 300

2014 no good - May all good forces unite in 2015 - By Johan Galtung.
TFF PressInfo 299

Solving the Ukraine crisis now - By Jonathan Power.
TFF PressInfo 298

Misleading the world on Iran's nuclear "bomb" - By Jonathan Power.
TFF PressInfo 297

The dead end of the post-Oslo diplomacy: What next? - By Richard Falk.
TFF PressInfo 296

Change the Iran policy now - By Jan Oberg.
TFF PressInfo 294

Brisbane - A show of Western weakness - By Jan Oberg.
TFF PressInfo 292

Coping with the loss of a close enemy - Predicting the new Cold War 24 years ago - By Jan Oberg. Reprint from April 1990
TFF PressInfo 291

Why and how to understand ISIS - Collection of 12 TFF analyses
TFF PressInfo 290

Why Russia is growing tough - By Jonathan Power
TFF PressInfo 289

Where it all went wrong and lessons never learnt By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 288

Views on recognising Palestine and on how to understand ISIS - Collection of 6 TFF analyses
TFF PressInfo 287

Sweden's submergency - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 286

What submarine in Sweden? - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 285

U.S. nuclear policy is taking the wrong road - By David Krieger
TFF PressInfo 284

Nobel's Peace Prize is not a human rights prize - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 283

Instead of bombing IS - Part B: Concrete proposals - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 282

Instead of bombing IS - Part A: Some principles - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 281

Danish F-16 to fight ISIS: Danish government more loyal with the US than with its own citizens. By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 280

Hot Russian-US discussion in Moscow - By Jonathan Power
TFF PressInfo 279

The War On Terror is a - predictable - fiasco - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 278

After all this, what? By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 277

Ceasefire in Ukraine: Now withdrawal by Russia, the UN in and NATO out - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo 276



September 2, 2014:
TFF proudly presents a blog of 2000+ pages of analyses, debate articles, statements and reports about Yugoslavia's dissolution and the conflict mis-management that accompanied it: "Yugoslavia - What Should Have Been Done?"
The three authors are Johan Galtung, H�kan Wiberg and Jan Oberg who have worked 130+ manyears with and in that country. Everything they wrote is included and published as it was originally - for anyone to see whose analyses and predictions stood the test of time.
Go to the blog here


All Danish MPs now turn humanitarian aid into a military mission for Iraq - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo

Support Richard Branson's Ukraine dialogue initiative - By Jan Oberg
TFF PressInfo

Leadership change needed in Israel - By Johan Galtung
TFF PressInfo

Cold War warnings 1998-2014
TFF PressInfo

Nuclear abolition now!
TFF PressInfo

Hvor har vores krige virket? - Om Gaza, m�gling, Irak, Ukraine og hvorfor Danmarks udenrigspolitik b�r l�gges om
Omfattende interview med udenrigsmagasinet R�son, 1. august 2014

Wow, Hillary Clinton as moral philsopher
TFF PressInfo

It's doable: Peace Palestine-Israel - Part 1
TFF PressInfo

Use Malaysia's MH17 to make peace instead
TFF PressInfo

The human price of the war on Iraq
TFF PressInfo

Violence against children has become an epidemic
TFF PressInfo

Somaliland - A Peace and Photo Mission
TFF PressInfo

If militarism continues, humankind is doomed
TFF PressInfo

Peace by Peace - A conversation with Jan Oberg
Russia Today program "Worlds Apart"



What to do now in Iraq?
TFF PressInfo

Democracy's crisis - 10 points
TFF PressInfo

EU elections - to perform rather than live democracy
TFF PressInfo

Why Obama's speech should make us think
TFF PressInfo

New TFF Associate, Jens J�rgen Nielsen
Jens J�rgen Nielsen's CV

Ukraine: Stop escalation and think peace
TFF PressInfo

Saudi Arabia, militarism and new conflicts
TFF PressInfo

Sverige - inte l�ngre akt�r f�r en b�ttre v�rld
TFF PressInfo

Sweden - No longer a force for good
TFF PressInfo

The West's hypocrisy in Ukraine
TFF PressInfo

New TFF Associate, Jelena Mair
Jelena Mair's CV

Som broar �ver m�rka vatten
Ny TFF forskningsrapport om integration av ensamkommande flyktingbarn. Vg hj�lp oss sprida rapporten till m�nniskor med intresse av flykting- och integrationsfr�gor.

Fact-finding mission to Somaliland, March 27 to April 7 - Articles to come!


Kosovo 15 years later, a personal memory and a word about free research
TFF PressInfo

Crimea - the referendum, the mote and the beam
TFF PressInfo

The manufactured story about Iran's nuclear program
TFF PressInfo

Ukraine, Crimea, Georgia - The West and Russia
TFF PressInfo

Ukraine - Dangerous reductionism
TFF PressInfo

TFF January-February 2014
Newsletter

Ukraine: What would you like to know about it?
TFF PressInfo

Institute a course for all on what confront humanity in the 21st century
TFF PressInfo

Geneva will fail but don't blame only the Syrians
TFF PressInfo

Why is everybody ignoring Syria's people?
TFF PressInfo

Capucine Riom - New TFF Associate

The Story and the Page You Need - TFF 2013-2014 from TFF on Vimeo.

The West must change its Iran policies and attitudes now
TFF PressInfo

TFF and its founders receive the People's Nobel Prize for Peace
On behalf of TFF, Jan Oberg received the Prize at a seminar about the Nobel Peace Prize on December 7, 2013 arranged by the Orust Peace Association in Sweden.



TFF on Iran mission Nov 9 - 28, 2013
Jan Oberg gave 3 lectures at different faculties at Tehran University, one at the Tehran Peace Museum and one for the Association of United Nation Studies. In addition a series of talks at leading research institutes, e.g. the Center for Strategic Research, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition visit to Tabriz, Orumieh, Shiraz, Persepolis, Esfahan, the village Garmeh deep into the dessert to learn about Iran's history and culture and to take photos. Here with friends at the Tehran Peace Museum



Any attack on Syria will be counterproductive and illegal � a result of failed conflict management
TFF PressInfo

Egypt - Perspectives and useful links
TFF PressInfo

Obama�s diplomatic blunder, the cowardice of Western democracies and what Sweden should do
TFF PressInfo

The Iran Threat Delusion
TFF PressInfo

TFF Associate Farhang Jahanpour, Oxford University: Part 1 of 2.

Iran (1) War Is Not An Option from Transnational Foundation on Vimeo.

TFF Associate Farhang Jahanpour, Oxford University: Part 2 of 2.

Iran (2) Build Trust - 21 Proposals from Transnational Foundation on Vimeo.

TFF PressInfo 1-2013
What Is The Problem With Iran? And Why Does The West Need A New Policy To Avoid A War And Build Trust Instead?


TFF director Jan Oberg speaking about "What to do instead of bombing Iran"
- A lecture at the World Peace Academy in Basel, Switzerland with words and photographs from his recent visit to Iran




TFF Associate Johan Galtung on Al-Jazeera's "The Stream"
He talks about Palestine-Israel, peace economy and why it is nonsense to call him an anti-semite




October-November 2012
TFF 14-day mission to Iran
TFF director Jan Oberg traveled around Iran - Tehran, Arak, Esfahan, Yazd, Kharanaq and Shiraz - to get a sense of the history, culture, landscape, economy etc of the country.


The second largest square in the world, the Jameh Mosque, Isfahan, Iran
� Jan Oberg 2012

Most importantly, he explored the people and daily life and listened to what Iranians spontaenously told him about their country and the West which has imposed sanctions on Iran and threatens it with destruction.
It was not a research-based fact-finding mission with formal interviews of authorities or experts. It was a spontaneous encounter with an incredible welcoming, kind and proud people everywhere and an amazing culture - past and present - and artistic creativity. Jan Oberg also took thousands of photos a few of which you'll eventually find here and on TFF Facebook and on his Facebook photo page
- This is not only about Iran and its people, says Jan Oberg. It is also about a world culture belonging to all the world that no one has a right to even talk about destroying.


Shoe-maker preparing the leather. Tehran � Jan Oberg 2012

October 2012
Why don't we make peace when we so easily could?
One-hour lecture by TFF director Jan Oberg at the World Peace Academy in Basel, Switzerland




October 12, 2012
The scandal called the Nobel Peace Committee
By TFF director Jan Oberg

Why? The EU is credited with making making peace in the Balkans while it made war in Bosnia unavoidable by prematurely recognizing Slovenia and Croatia out of old Yugoslavia. After that Bosnia could neither sit in Rest-Yugoslavia nor become independent without war.
EU countries are constantly involved in wars and interventions (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria). Two are nuclear weapons powers. The EU Treaty advocates military-industrial integration and stronger military defence; words such as disarmament, nonviolence, reconciliation, nuclear freedom, etc do not appear even once in the treaty. EU has only military sections, nothing for civilian conflict-resolution and not even one peace academy. Again politicians give it to politicians, Nobel Committee chairman also S-G of the European Council!
There are more truthful reasons for Europe being more peaceful inside today: Brandt's Ostpolitik, Kekkonen's OSCE process, neutral countries' policies, the 1980s peace movement, Gorbachev's peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, Palme's Common Security report, etc.
EU has done good things, of course - e.g. helped students to study in various universities and make friends. But that was not even mentioned among the reasons.
Nobel's will is about disarmament and anti-militarism. Now the prize has been given to one of the most armed and militaristic regions of the world.
What now? Follow the will reasonably closely! Make a committee of peace-educated and otherwise competent theoreticians and practitioners - and send the present retired parliamentarians home. Today peace is a competence field, like economics or chemistry or medicine - and prizes for it shall not be decided by amateurs from one single country. Would you find it appropriate if retired politicians decided the prize in medicine or literature? Hardly! Why then is it OK with peace?
It is indeed a sign of progress that lots of media now question the way the Nobel Peace Prize is administered, or misused by the Committee. A few years ago most media just called it the most prestigious prize and had not read the will.
More about the EU in the menu to your left.


September 28, 2012:
On mission in Burundi
Two tasks in two weeks, helping young people in the Great Lakes region to build peace and reconciliation and working with the new "Initiatives and Actions for Peace"


Here Jan Oberg with his Burundian mother, Mme Giramahoro, who runs a huge farm in the town of Muramviya some 60 kilometres out of the capital Bujumbura. She is the mother of Armand Giramahoro who is the leader of the IAP - Initiatives for Peace and Development - with which TFF co-operates. Years ago she adopted Jan as her muzungu son.

TFF has partnered with United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) and the Burundian Initiatives and Actions for Peace and Development (IAP) at a training seminar for 25+ young NGO people from DR Congo, Rwanda and Burundi - the Great Lakes region. TFF director Jan Oberg was one of the trainers and the one-week event was a success according to the evaluations.
Here are a series of photos from the event! Enjoy - and visit the two mentioned organizations too!

And here are some glimpses from various places in Burundi, an amazingly beautiful country.

FEATURED ASSOCIATE

Johan Galtung

Johan Galtung, one of the founders of academic peace and conflict research in the 1950s and indisputably one of the most productive and innovative social scientists living today. A man of honour for his life-long commitment to peace by peaceful means.
He is the founder of PRIO in Oslo, of the Journal of Peace Research and of Transcend.
At 81, he travels around the globe twice a year, lectures, writes and directs projects along the way. Galtung joined TFF as an Associate in 1986, 12 years after Jan Oberg and he met at the Inter-University Center (IUC) in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

Galtung on TFF 1986-2011
On TFF Associates and Themes Blog since 2012
His production with Transcend

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Sweden - refugee integration

TFF has carried through three projects aimed at making the integration of refugees into Swedish society smoother by providing dialogue opportunities between refugees and Swedes.

The third - and current - project is called "Like Bridges Over Dark Water". The overall purpose is to strengthen individuals in transition periods of life. One part of the project deals with the hardships young Afghan boys have had to go through during their long travels alone from their home country, arriving in Sweden without any relatives to welcome them. Telling their stories - and being listened to - by means of texts, drawings and photos is both healing and empowering for these boys.

This project - funded by the Swedish Inheritance Fund - has become a traveling exhibition. First shown at an art gallery in Malmoe, it is still on the move and is being exhibited in libraries, schools and other meeting places. At openings the boys are there to introduce the exhibition, explain and answer questions by the audience. You can practically see them 'grow'!

More about these projects here, mostly in Swedish

FEATURED PHOTO

"Reconciliation" - Photo painting by Jan Oberg © 2010