Articles
2008
Shastri Ramachandaran, Tribune of India, April 24, 2008
Reprocessing democracy
India, Nepal have to re-envision relationship
The Maoists winning the democratic right to lead Nepal is more than an electoral event. It is a development of enormous significance for not only the people of Nepal but also the rest of the world, particularly India and South Asia. The Maoists put democracy on trial and they, in turn, were tested by the democratic process. Both the Maoists and democracy have won resoundingly. This is as much a paradigm shift for democracy as for the Maoists.
Jørgen Johansen, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 24:e april 2008
Marknaden regerar
Fattiga drabbas när jorden dammsugs på råvaror till bilarnas etanol, skriver Jørgen Johansen.
Peter Jarman, April 11, 2008
East-West Dialogue during the Cold War years: Possibilities and Limitations
A personal account of Quaker meetings in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe prior to the end of the Cold War in 1989.
Jörgen Johansen, 9:e april 2008
Militarismens roll efter 11:e september
Francis A. Boyle, Baltimore Indymedia, March 6, 2008
Civil resistance in the age of Bush and Cheney
Civil Resistance to the wrongdoings of U.S. regimes has a long, and honorable, history. In his well documented tome, “Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law,” Professor Francis A. Boyle captures the essence of that story. He explains how “civil resistance” differs from “civil disobedience.” He also cites cases, where he was involved as an attorney and/or expert witness.
David Krieger with Stanley K. Sheinbaum, March 6, 2008
Preventing Future Nuclear Catastrophes
Michel Chossudovsky, March 5, 2008
The US-NATO Preemptive Nuclear Doctrine: Trigger a Middle East Nuclear Holocaust to Defend "The Western Way of Life"
With a few exceptions, there's a scientific and intellectual vacuum: No research, no analysis, no comprehension of the meaning of a nuclear holocaust which in a real sense threatens the future of humanity.
There is a tacit acceptance of a diabolical and criminal military agenda. The US-NATO doctrine to use nukes on a preemptive basis with a view to "saving the Western World's way of life" is not challenged in any meaningful way either by academics or media experts in strategic studies.
Richard Falk, March 5, 2008
What to expect from the next American president in the Middle East
Chaiwat Satha-Anand, March 4, 2008
October 6, 1976 and the case of collective amnesia?
Shastri Ramachandaran, March 4, 2008
Trouble in the Terai - Nepal’s next big problem
Jan Oberg, February 29, 2008
Can the EU become a peace-maker in the world? In Kosovo?
A critique of the Union's policy vis-a-vis Kosovo and Serbia and mention of Francesco Marelli's vision on a sort of Ministry of Peace for the EU - and an alternative European Security Strategy.
Daisaku Ikeda, February 13, 2008
2008 Peace Proposal: Humanizing Religion, Creating Peace
A major event in peace politics every year...
Gunnar Westberg, 11:e februari 2008
NATO, Sverige och kärnvapen
Daisaku Ikeda, in Japan Times, February 13, 2008
Say No to nukes in the Arctic
The Artic should become a nuclear weapons-free zone
Gunnar Westberg, Aftonbladet, 11:e februari 2008
Trots nedrustning finns fortfarande kärnvapen nog för att förinta Jorden
Carl Bildt är anmärkningsvärt passiv...
David Krieger, February 4, 2008
Required reading for assuring the future
Jonathan Schell's new book on the nuclear dilemma
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, January 20, 2008
Al Qaeda and the "War on Terrorism"
Stefan de Vylder, Yusra Moshtat & Jan Öberg
Svenska Dagbladet 17:e januari 2008
Margot Wallström "glömde" kriget
I en artikel på SvD Brännpunkt den 13/1 lyckas hon med det som borde vara omöjligt: en lång artikel om hur EU arbetar för fred utan att med ett ord nämna någon av de krigs- och konflikthärdar som idag utgör de allvarligaste hoten mot världsfreden: Irak, Afghanistan och Israel/Palestina.
Tystnaden om krig och ockupationer i en artikel om EU:s fredsarbete är tyvärr föga förvånande.
Margot Wallströms svar
Shastri Ramachandaran, The Tribune India, January 7, 2008
End of truce - Sri Lanka declares a new war
Articles
2007
Jan Øberg i "Poul Friis", DR - 21. december 2007
Fred i verden?
En samtale og ringe-ind program om freden, julefred og anden fred.
Jan Oberg, IPS, November 27, 2007
The Ballistic Missile "Defence":
US offensive mega-terrorism
See the larger picture that the BMD is part of. Look through the media hype and understand why this is terrorism that dwarfs Bin Laden...
Jørgen Johansen, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 12:e december 2007
Fredspris på fel grunder
Den norska Nobelkommittén bryter mot viljan i Nobels testamente.
Francis Boyle, December 10, 2007
The illegalities of US foreign policy and wars
Boyle's 4-part Bertrand Russell Lectures at McMaster's University in Canada. Few can present the case better than this TFF Associate, with all details and references to the very international law framwork which the Bush administration deliberately and systematically undermines.
Francis Boyle, Global Research - November 8, 2007
Bush Threat of World War III: Cuban Missile Crisis Redux
the Neo-Cons in the Bush Jr. administration believe that with the deployment of a facially successful strategic nuclear first-strike capability necessarily including A.B.M.s, the U.S. government could ultimately compel nuclear-armed Russia or China or both to do its bidding during a geopolitical crisis (e.g., over Iran or Cuba again).
Farhang Jahanpour, Journal of Globalisation for the Common Good, November 1, 2007
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Sufis:
From Puritanism to Transcendentalism
At a time when political relations between Iran and the United States are so tense and the two nations are viewing each other with hostility and suspicion, it is important to remember that the cultural and literary relations between them have not always been so acrimonious.
David Krieger, October 31, 2007
The Sunflower Newsletter on nuclear policies and abolition
Articles by Jimmy Carter, David Krieger a.o. plus lots of information resources.
Kamran Mofid, November 1, 2007
The Journal of Globalization for the Common Good - Autumn 2007
inclding the Istanbul Declaration
The editors foreword
Shastri Ramachandaran, October 30, 2007
Nepal on knife-edge - Peace process being cut to pieces
The message is that henceforth the Maoists will call the shots; that they are not bound by the agreements to which they are a party. And, if they continue to swear by the peace process it is only to bind the SPA to abide by the terms the Maoists dictate.
Jan Oberg, October 24, 2007
Let us celebrate the Second UN
There is another UN than the power house in New York, a Second UN you never hear about. There is even a Third and Future UNs. In spite of all, the Second UN is doing a fine job where it matters most and where media don't report from. It is the member governments, more than the UN, that have failed to realise the dreams of a better world. Reform the members and the UN can still do miracles. But aren't we too nationalistic to do just that?
Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca - October 17, 2007
Bush's World War III
We are not living in a sound and rational World, where far-reaching decisions by the US President are based on an understanding of their likely consequences. World War III is no longer a hypothetical scenario.
National Public Radio - Talk of the Nation
Gore Nobel sparks debate over climate and peace
Jan Oberg and Stephan Faris discuss the prize and the issue, with people calling in. 3 million listeners, 300 radio stations in the US. Listen to it (17 minutes).
Jan Oberg, October 12, 2007
The Nobel Peace Prize 2007: A great misjudgement
It can only devalue the Prize itself and make a mockery of peace when Al Gore get it - remember he was vicepresident when Clinton and others missed the opportunity to creat a better world, bombed Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Sudan...
Jan Öberg, 12:e oktober 2007
Nobelpriset 2007 till Al Gore - en allvarlig felbedömning
Birgitte Rahbek, 12. oktober 2007
Lad konfliktløsning bane vejen
David R. Loy, October 9, 2007
Why we love war
A profound, philosopical piece on why war seems attractive to so many. It has to do with a deep civilisational feeling of lacking something in our lives, with our craving for identity and community. Here is a Buddhist perspective, eminently readable by anyone - and non-Buddhists will get an extra benefit from this professor and Buddhist teacher.
Per Gahrton homepage, October 2007
Kashmir - Secession and independence, or district-based plebiscite and partition - or autonomy and soft borders?
Some options for a solution to the Kasmir conflict based upon Nordic experiences. Gahrton here develops the four-point formula by President Musharraf from December 2006.
Per Gahrton, Cogito, oktober, 2007
Håller kineserna på att bli miljömedvetna?
Intryck from ett Kina-besök tillsammans med Europas Gröna.
David Krieger, September 27, 2007
US leadership for a nuclear weapons free world
Here is the argument against the "death plan"
Riane Eisler, Alternet.com, September 13, 2007
The ignored issue that can get progressives elected
The failure by the current administration and its congressional allies to care for America's children gives progressives the opportunity to reclaim an area they've tragically neglected.
Jørgen Johansen, 20:e september 2007
Bomba Iran - Säg ifrån nu !
Ett angrepp på Iran skulle få konsekvenser som gör kriget i Irak till en detalj - skall ett angrepp undvikas så är det nu man ska säga ifrån!
Jake Lynch, August 15, 2007
Hope rings out in voices of protest
Remember, when you see news pictures of activists being carted off by robocops guarding delegates to the APEC summit, their dissent from the official line is keeping alive the prospect of peace. They, in short, are the guardians of democracy and the hope of a safer world that we could now create.
David Krieger, August 10, 2007
The greatest immediate danger to humanity
The more nuclear weapons in the world, the more likely they will end up in the hands of terrorist extremists incapable of being deterred. The longer nations rely on nuclear weapons for security, the more likely it is that they will be used, by accident or design.
Jørgen Johansen, 30:e juli 2007
Vi blir bara fler och fler
Från tidigt 1800-tal låg antalet stater i världen relativt konstant runt 50–60 i hundratrettio år. Men sedan andra världskrigets slut har antalet nästan tredubblats. Vilken betydelse får det egentligen att antalet stater i världen ökar?
Jørgen Johansen, 14:e juli 2007
Journalister i fångenskap
Det er skillnad på journalist och journalist i medierna. Johansen jämför mediebevakningen av Sami al-Haj i Guantanamo och BBC-journalisten Alan Johnston.
Hans von Sponeck, Current Concerns, June 25, 2007
Returning to the worst days of the Cold War
I am convinced that, due to this militarised politization of Nato, we have taken a big step backwards to what is not only a Cold War atmosphere between major powers, but also, and this is the tragedy, to an increase in defence spending in many countries including China, Russia, and Western Europe. The key words ought to be dialogue and diplomacy...
Daisaku Ikeda, June 15, 2007
Message to TFF
One of the world's foremost peace leaders writes to TFF
Jørgen
Johansen, 1. juni 2007
En
fråga om lojalitet
Konsult Göran Persson minskar chanserna för att Norge
ska köpa Jas, skriver fredsforskaren Jørgen Johansen.
Sören
Sommelius, 30:e maj, 2007
"Buddha
i världen"
Sören Sommelius recenserar Pankaj Mishras bok - "För
buddhismen står det dagliga enkla livet i centrum. Men
det mesta i vår tid fokuserar på andra värden,
tillväxt, ökad förbrukning och mångfaldigade
behov av ständigt nya varor och tjänster, allt det
som Buddha varnade för."
Michel
Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca, May 19. 2007
"Democratic
transition" at the World Bank
The Wolfowitz scandal is a smokescreen. The real reasons of
Wolfowitz's demise are political. What this dismissal suggests
is that lead Neo-Conservatives, despite their apparent political
clout are often vulnerable and defenseless. They do not constitute
the ultimate source of political power. Acting on behalf of
the dominant corporate and financial elites, they are instruments
or proxies, which can readily be replaced.
Gunnar
Westberg & Frida Sundberg,
Göteborgs-Posten, 10:e maj 2007
Svenskt
medlemskap i Nato är moraliskt oförsvarbart
Att
Nato:s kärnvapendoktrin accepterades av medlemsländerna
under det kalla kriget är kanske förståeligt.
Att Sverige skulle ta på sig denna moraliska börda
när fred råder i Europa vore oförsvarligt.
Daisaku
Ikeda, May 2, 2007
Restoring
the Human Connection: The First Step to Global Peace
Much of the responsibility for the current situation must be
laid at the feet of the states already possessing nuclear weapons.
Any effective movement toward nuclear disarmament must be predicated
on the sincere efforts of the existing nuclear-weapon states
to disarm.
Richard
Falk, April 30, 2007
Responsible
scholarship in 'dark times'
Each of the concerns expressed here calls for
a defiant spirit of truthfulness that may entail some adverse
consequences. There are concerted campaigns afoot within the
society to purge university ranks of radical voices and to intimidate
still further the rest of the academic community. It is a historical
moment that is severely testing the vitality and moral wellbeing
of academic professionalism.
Nordic
Peace Academy, April 27, 2007
Nyt Nordisk Fredsakademi
i Norge - anmeld dig til august
Several TFF Associates are involved in developing Nordisk Fredsakademi,
among them Johan Galtung, Hakan Wiberg, Jan Oberg, Dietrich
Fischer. (Website so far only in Norwegian)
Farhang
Jahanpour, April 27, 2007
From
Yeltsin's Christian funeral to the war on terror
Starting out with the interesting details of that funeral and
the upsurge in religious sentiments worldwide, Jahanpour focuses
on the general relationship between politics and religion in
different culture, reminds us of Nietzsche, continues to CIA's
role in provoking the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and ends
with what we can learn from it all concerning the - failed -
war on terror today.
Riane
Eisler's pathbreaking book, April 25, 2007
The
Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
From the author of the bestselling classic The Chalice and The
Blade - Proposes a dramatic new economic model that could help
resolve many of the most critical problems we face today- Offers
concrete steps for putting this model into practice.
See its table of content, first pages and how to order here.
Jan Øberg,
11. april 2007
Hvad
er fred?
Opsummering af 35 års tanker og praksis
Fred er at sikre udvikling
og udvikle sikkerhed med ikkevold og mangfoldighed
- og meget mere...
Sören Sommelius,
22:a mars 2007
I
drakens huvud - Shanghai: "Att bli rik är ärofyllt"
!
En mångsidig berättelse omett omtumlande besök
i megastaden - og med historiska trådar till Helsingborg
og författarens vind.
Sören Sommelius,
22:a mars 2007
I
de "humanitära" krigens tid
Recension av Jean Bricmont's "Humanitär imperialism"
Sören Sommelius,
22:a mars 2007
Recension
av Amartya Sen's "Identitet och våld."
Doris Kruckenberg,
21. marts 2007
Anmeldelse
af H. C. Bonnichsens bog "Hånden. En PET- og politikrønike."
Farhang Jahanpour,
March 10, 2007
Fundamentalism
versus liberalism
The
biggest challenge that mankind faces today is to prevent the
views of the 'men of zeal' to predominate. What the world is
facing is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash between
a liberal and pluralistic view of the world, and one based on
religious and political dogmatism and fundamentalism.
TPU - Transcend
Peace University
Course Announcement, Spring 2007
On-line peace
university, 19 courses, 8 course directors are TFF Associates
Daisaku Ikeda,
February 21, 2007
Dag
Hammarskjöld's commitment to dialogue
I believe there is much we can learn from the life and example
of Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the
organization. His achievements shine in the annals of UN history,
and his moral force and integrity as the "conscience of
the United Nations" command wide respect to this day.
Gunnar Westberg,
Dagen Nyheter, 19 februari 2007
Klockan
fem minuter i tolv
Vad kan i längden hindra ett storskaligt kärnvapenkrig?
Den hotfulla bilden av svampmolnet har åter blivit aktuell,
men Gunnar Westberg ser hopp i ett oväntat amerikanskt
initiativ.
Jan Oberg, February
14, 2007
What
is peace? My summary of 35 years of thinking and practising
Francis A. Boyle,
February 14, 2007
The
18th Annual Bertrand Russell Peace Lectures:
The legacy of B. Russell: Principle of confronting power
Listen to "Palestinians and International Law" and
"The US National Campaign to Impeach Bush" held at
McMaster University.
Stuart Rees with
Annie Herro, January 30, 2007 on ABC National radio, Australia
on November 8, 2006
What
form of international intervention could at least stall the
slaughter of innocents in conflicts like Darfur?
About the UNEPS proposal
Recently launched in New York has been the proposal for the
United Nations Emergency Peace Service known as UNEPS. This
is a response to urgent calls within the UN for a rapid-reaction
service to prevent conflicts from escalating into genocidal-like
disasters. It will include experts on conflict-resolution and
non-violent methods on the ground.
Hans-Christoph
von Sponeck, January 26,
2007
The
dangerous double standard
Shastri Ramachandaran,
The Tribune, January 14, 2007
Development
as delusion
“Marvellous falsehood, most pleasant”
Review of The History of Development: From Western Origins to
Global Faith by Gilbert Rist. "In a world where discourse
is dominated by simplistic arguments for and against globalisation
between market cheerleaders and protesting demonstrators, Rist
compels critical reflection, to liberate the mind from a single
all-consuming delusion."
Jake Lynch,
The Australian, January 14, 2007
Tread
warily with Manila
David Krieger,
January 6, 2007
Four
Cold Warriors' plea for a nuclear-free world
Shastri Ramachandaran,
January 6, 2007
Nepal
Promises, potentials and pitfalls (3 articles)
Johan Galtung,
January 5, 2007
A
mini theory of peace
Daisaku Ikeda,
January 4, 2007
A
power to resist the currents of history
From
July 2006 to 2007
Daisaku Ikeda,
December 29, 2006
A
new era of the people - Forging a global network of robust individuals
Daisaku Ikeda is the president of the Soka Gakkai International
(SGI), a Buddhist association of more than 12 million members
in 190 countries. A prolific writer, poet, peace activist and
leading interpreters of Buddhism, Ikeda gives his view on a
better world from the vantage point of the year we are now leaving
behind.
Francis A. Boyle,
December 29, 2006
Warning
that the US is becoming a police state
Prof Boyle says 9/11 was allowed to happen, war on terror
is facilitating the downfall of The Republic, concentration
camps are in place and US citizens are the targets. Read and
listen to him.
Ulla Fasting, TFF
Ven, 28. december 2006
Indtryk
fra Afghanistan
Om sikkerheden,
kvinderne, nabolandene og Danmarks særlige ansvar.
Ulla Fasting, TFF
Ven, 28. december 2006
Fem
billeder af det mulige Afghanistan
Ulla
Fastings bidrag i november til Danmarks Radios "Ved dagens
Begyndelse."
David Krieger,
December 10, 2006
Teaching
peace
What subject could be more important to teach our young
but peace? Krieger here lists the three most important documents
and ten ways of teaching peace and being and educated citizen
in the 21st century. Read and see whether you are...?
Richard Falk, December
8, 2006
On United
Nations reform: Where is Kofi Annan's "fork in the road"?
Over the horizon!
This essay contends that there is no fork in road, and that
the metaphor of choice is profoundly distorting. Within the
United Nations System, as now constituted, there is no reform
choice, and no alternative to the persistence of a geopolitically
dominated reality. Outside the UN, the commitment to UN reform
by civil society actors is the only worthwhile path, although
the realization of its vision cannot even be imagined at this
point.
Michel Chossudovsky,
November 27, 2006
Debating
"War and Peace" behind closed doors:
NATO's Riga Security Conference
Chossudovsky on its background, perspectives and its interesting
gathering of defence analysts, media, institutions, governments,
near-governmental organizations, and military industry - in
short, the contemporary military-industrial complex.
Kamran Mofid, November
26, 2006
The
Journal of Globalization for the Common Good
Themes such as Islam and dialogue among civilizations, what
hope for peace in the Middle East, globalization, Buddhist peace
practice and more.
Daisaku Ikeda,
October 5, 2006
Emerging
from the nuclear shadow
President Ikeda argues for nuclear abolition and emphasizes
the need for giving youth a voice in this matter. To emerge
from the shadow of nuclear weapons we need a revolution in the
consciousness of countless individuals -- a revolution that
gives rise to the heartfelt confidence that "There is something
I can do."
Chaiwat Satha-Anand,
October 4, 2006
The
moral enigma of the September 19 popular coup in Thailand
This keen observer offers an explanation why so many, both
common people and noted public intellectuals, are supporting
this coup. There is a moral enigma in that the coup could be
accepted while the coup as a means of political change itself
is rejected. And in the midst of it all: a quiet sign of hope
for Thai society.
Michel Chossudovsky,
October 4, 2006
Who
benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade?
The United Nations has announced that opium poppy cultivation
in Afghanistan has soared and is expected to increase by 59%
in 2006. The production of opium is estimated to have increased
by 49% in relation to 2005.
Isn't it a bitter irony that the US military presence has served
to restore rather than eradicate the drug trade?
Jan Oberg, September
10, 2006
September
11 Five Years: 9 problems and 11 solutions - Part 1
It changed the world. But for the wrong reasons. The biggest
problem is not 9/11 but 7/10: October 7 when the Bush administration
started the “war on terror” in a mistaken or deliberate
attempt to capitalize on that fateful day: 9/11. But their deficient
and opportunistic interpretation of the event has created a
world much more unstable than any time since 1945.
Part
2 - The 11 Solutions.
Among them: Scrap the war on terror!
David Krieger,
September 10, 2006
Preventing
a nuclear 9/11
The greatest failure of imagination on the part of leaders
in the nuclear weapons states is their belief that they can
continue with nuclear business as usual while expecting that
these weapons will not eventually end up in the hands of terrorists.
Their own possession of nuclear weapons is a form of nuclear
terrorism.
Ken Coates, September
9, 2006
The carnage
continues...and now for Trident!
The author takes stock of the situation in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Lebanon - and in England, "President Bush did not take
long to parrot this outburst in denunciations of Islamic fascism.
How long will it be before Mr. Blair also joins the neo-con
claque?
Shastri Ramachandaran,
September 9, 2006
Island
of strife. India must avert war in Sri Lanka
The question “What can India do?” smacks of
despair. What India cannot do is known: India cannot mediate,
supply combat equipment or directly engage the LTTE. But India
can prevail upon the GoSL to call off its ground and aerial
attacks immediately, and deprive the LTTE of a chance to launch
the fourth Eelam war. New Delhi should invite Norway and the
other co-chairs of the peace process and get them to publicly
declare that the (dead) process is actually dead.
Shastri Ramachandaran,
September 9, 2006
German
Angst. Günther Grass has already punished himself
Germans known for their angst also have, like the Japanese,
a sense of honour. It is this sense of honour that may have
driven Gunter Grass to commit this hara-kiri of sorts. There’s
no need to vilify and pillory him when he has inflicted so much
on himself.
Richard Falk, August
31, 2006
World
Order after the Lebanon War
We should take care not to overlook the extent to which war
is becoming dysfunctional. The Lebanon War is likely to be remembered
not for the birth pains of 'a new Middle East' (Condoleezza
Rice), but as the death throes of a system of world order that
accepted war as the inevitable basis of stability and change
in relations among sovereign states.
Michel Chossudovsky,
August 30, 2006
Russia
and Central Asian Allies Conduct War Games in Response to US
Threats
Barely acknowledged by the Western media, military exercises
organized by Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan under
the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, (CSTO) have just
been launched. While Iran is not a member of the CSTO, it has
observer status in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO),
of which China is a member. India and Russia have signed on
August 20th, a farreaching military cooperation agreement. See
a pattern?
Johan Galtung,
August 23, 2006
What does
professionalization in peace research mean?
A path-breaking analysis - with autobiographical inputs - of
how to move beyond the dichotomy between government "Realism"
and civil society organizations/peace movements "Idealism."
Deals also with the code of conduct and accountability of the
peace reseacrcher/worker and the parallel with the health worker.
Michel Chossudovsky,
August 21, 2006
Crying
wolf: Terror alerts based on fabricated intelligence
The sequence of terror alerts based on phony information, repeated
over several years, inevitably creates amidst the British and
American public, a sense of disbelief: an uncomfortable feeling
that both Scotland Yard and the British Home office are lying. The
counter-terrorism apparatus is desperately crying wolf, which
could potentially trigger in the United Kingdom, a political
crisis of immeasurable consequence.
