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Editorial Archive Editorials without the author’s name are by Johan Galtung. 2023 20 Nov 2023 How Do Wars End? 13 Nov 2023 A Proposed Framework for Thinking about Existential Threats by Howard Richards 6 Nov 2023 Peacebuilding: New Efforts Needed in a Crisis Situation by René Wadlow 30 Oct 2023 The Man in the Mirror: A Glimpse at the Heart and Mind behind TRANSCEND Media Service by Marilyn Langlois 23 Oct 2023 Palestine/Israel: What Peace Would Look Like 16 Oct 2023 Israel’s Sociocide, Genocide, Ecocide in Gaza by Prof. Johan Galtung 9 Oct 2023 Who or What Will Do What Must Be Done? by Howard Richards 2 Oct 2023 How Can We Combat Militarism? by Richard E. Rubenstein 25 Sep 2023 The Balance Between Analysis and Action by René Wadlow 18 Sep 2023 Perpetual Wars of the United States of America by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 11 Sep 2023 What Must Be Done by Howard Richards 4 Sep 2023 Roads Taken and Not Taken: Two Visions of the Future by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century 28 Aug 2023 Spirituality and Peace by Prof. Johan Galtung 21 Aug 2023 Mobilizing for War with China: U.S. Hawks Target “Code Pink” by Richard E. Rubenstein 14 Aug 2023 Ukraine and the Danger of Nuclear War by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 7 Aug 2023 Humanity Needs a Completely Different Peace and Security System in the Future by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 31 Jul 2023 Peacemaking: The Spiritual Contribution by René Wadlow 24 Jul 2023 The Empire Factor: The Missing Piece in Narratives of the Ukraine War by Richard E. Rubenstein 17 Jul 2023 Peace Studies: Inspiration, Objectives, Achievement by Prof. Johan Galtung 10 Jul 2023 Why More Upstream Care Ethics Are Badly Needed by Howard Richards 3 Jul 2023 NATO’s Vilnius Summit – 30 Years of Conflict Provocations by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 26 Jun 2023 9/11: Whodunnit? and Why It Matters to the Peace Movement by Marilyn Langlois 19 Jun 2023 Heeding Cornel West’s ‘Cri de Coeur’ by Richard Falk 12 Jun 2023 Tribalism by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 5 Jun 2023 Voting for Peace? A Democratic Dilemma by Richard E. Rubenstein 29 May 2023 Some Notes on Evolution Theory 22 May 2023 The Crisis (or Crises) of Civilization by Howard Richards 15 May 2023 U.N. Security Council Focus on World Hunger by René Wadlow 8 May 2023 Killing Our Way to the Truth by Robert C. Koehler 1 May 2023 The West’s State Media and Their Increasing Violence: The Hersh Affair by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 24 Apr 2023 Biden’s Aggressive Foreign Policy by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 17 Apr 2023 Ambiguous Geopolitical Fault Lines Endanger World Peace by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century 10 Apr 2023 As Donald Trump Surrenders to Authorities in NY, Remember Feb 1924: The Trial of Adolf Hitler by Richard E. Rubenstein 3 Apr 2023 Confidence-building Measures in Asia-Pacific: Reversing the Slide to Violence by René Wadlow 27 Mar 2023 Creating Dignified Livelihoods by Howard Richards 20 Mar 2023 Peace and Conflict Resolution: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Seems More Intelligent Than Human Political Intelligence (PI) by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 13 Mar 2023 Will the Circle be Unbroken? Reviving the Spirit of Bandung and Panchsheel by Marilyn Langlois 6 Mar 2023 Alternatives to War: Renewal and Impact by René Wadlow 27 Feb 2023 In Homage to David Ray Griffin: Indispensable Public Intellectual by Richard Falk 20 Feb 2023 Dignity & Humiliation by Prof. Howard Richards 13 Feb 2023 Reasons (Other than Age) That Joe Biden Should Not Run again for President by Richard E. Rubenstein 6 Feb 2023 Greed Is Driving Us Towards Disaster by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 30 Jan 2023 The Rules-Based International Order and the Foggy Bottom Blues by Howard Richards 23 Jan 2023 The Occident Is Now Militarising Itself to Death for a Second Time by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 16 Jan 2023 Immanuel Wallerstein on the Global Left and Right 9 Jan 2023 The War in Ukraine Must Stop Now by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 2 Jan 2023 The Failure of Development by Howard Richards 2022 19 Dec 2022 Inculcating the “Military Virtues”: The Pentagon’s Predatory Role in U.S. High Schools by Richard E. Rubenstein 12 Dec 2022 Building Stronger Track-Two Networks by René Wadlow 5 Dec 2022 The Climate Emergency by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 28 Nov 2022 The Failure of the Expected Peace and the Suggestion of an Unbounded Way Forward by Howard Richards 21 Nov 2022 The Arab/Muslim Awakening–and USA/Israel 14 Nov 2022 2022 Israeli Elections: A Victory for Settler Colonialists or for the Palestinian Liberation Struggle? by Richard Falk 7 Nov 2022 Wisdom from the Jungle by Marilyn Langlois 31 Oct 2022 Achieving Socialism by Definition by Howard Richards 24 Oct 2022 The Time to Negotiate Peace in Ukraine Is NOW by Richard E. Rubenstein 17 Oct 2022 Ukraine War: Climbing the Escalation Ladder to Oblivion by Richard Falk 10 Oct 2022 Reforming the United Nations by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 3 Oct 2022 Sanctionitis Bringing Europe Down by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 26 Sep 2022 On the Ongoing Decline and Fall of the US Empire by Prof. Johan Galtung 19 Sep 2022 Reinventing Employment with Solidarity Ethics by Howard Richards 12 Sep 2022 Education for a World Society by René Wadlow 5 Sep 2022 Steps towards Avoiding a Climate Catastrophe by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 29 Aug 2022 New Patterns of Conflict and the Weakness of Peace Movements by Richard E. Rubenstein 22 Aug 2022 How Do You Know What You Think You Know? The Value of Dissident Voices by Marilyn Langlois 15 Aug 2022 Making Money from War by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 8 Aug 2022 How We Remember Hiroshima and Nuremberg Reflects Power Not Justice by Richard Falk 1 Aug 2022 Israel’s Sociocide, Genocide, Ecocide in Palestine by Prof. Johan Galtung 25 Jul 2022 Anti-Abortion Activism and the Sources of Polarization by Richard E. Rubenstein 18 Jul 2022 A Better World Is Possible by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 11 Jul 2022 Why NATO Is Outdated, Dangerous and Deserves to Be Abolished by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 4 Jul 2022 The Missing Journalism on Conflict and Peace–and the Middle East 27 Jun 2022 Learning from History by Howard Richards 20 Jun 2022 Conflict Transformation for Ukraine and Russia by Jake Lynch 13 Jun 2022 Terrified of Freedom: Why Most Human Beings Are Embracing the Global Elite’s Technotyranny by Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. 6 Jun 2022 Peacebuilding and the Transformation of Education by René Wadlow 30 May 2022 Willing Suspension of Disbelief: The Danger of Overlooking US Ties to Nazism by Marilyn Langlois 23 May 2022 Paths Not Taken: Peace Initiatives That Would Have Helped Avoid the Mess We’re in Now by Jake Lynch 16 May 2022 Political Maturity and Rational Empathy for the Enemy by Diane Perlman, Ph.D. 9 May 2022 Social Systems in Scandinavia by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 2 May 2022 Toward a Peoples Tribunal on the Ukraine Wars by Richard Falk 25 Apr 2022 Dual Denialisms by Jake Lynch 18 Apr 2022 Why Are Humans Fighting Other Humans when We Are Facing Extinction as a Species? by Howard Richards 11 Apr 2022 Towards a Model of Wise Power™: Quantum Politics and Second Order Change by Diane Perlman, Ph.D. 4 Apr 2022 The War in Ukraine: Understanding and Resisting the Global Elite’s Deeper Agenda by Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. 28 Mar 2022 Negotiate Peace in Ukraine Now! by Richard E. Rubenstein 21 Mar 2022 NATO/Russia Conflict in Ukraine: The West’s Spinal Cord Reaction Will Prove Extremely Self-Destructive by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 14 Mar 2022 We Must Abolish Nuclear Weapons by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 7 Mar 2022 Does Gabriel Boric Have the Answer? by Howard Richards 28 Feb 2022 The Paused Quest for Humane Governance in the Arab World: Is It Time ‘to fail better’? by Richard Falk 21 Feb 2022 Arms Industry–The Tail Wagging the Dog by Jake Lynch 14 Feb 2022 Chinese-Russian Text on Constructing a Community of Common Destiny for Mankind – A Crucial Peacebuilding Approach by René Wadlow 7 Feb 2022 Death and Destruction on the Highways: A Global Disaster Hiding in Plain Sight by Richard E. Rubenstein 31 Jan 2022 The Global Elite’s ‘Kill and Control’ Agenda: Destroying Our Food Security by Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. 24 Jan 2022 We Are Militarism’s Hostages by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 17 Jan 2022 Ukraine: The West Has Paved the Road to War with Lies by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 10 Jan 2022 Can We Transcend Covid? Some Perspectives on Mass Psychology by Diane Perlman, Ph.D. 3 Jan 2022 The New Year: Review and Renewal by René Wadlow 2021 27 Dec 2021 A Proposal to Humanity: A Path to Surviving Today`s Megacrises by Howard Richards 20 Dec 2021 The Threat of a Large-Scale Famine by John Scales Avery, Ph.D. 13 Dec 2021 Create, or Help Create, Dignified Livelihoods That Do Not Depend on Sales by Howard Richards 6 Dec 2021 Resisting the Gatekeepers of Hell: Gandhi, ‘Vaccine Passports’ and the Great Reset by Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. 29 Nov 2021 Fiddling as Rome Burns: While the U.S. and China Prepare for War, USA Pundits Dither by Richard E. Rubenstein 22 Nov 2021 How News about Climate and Environment Can Prompt and Enable Audience Action by Jake Lynch 15 Nov 2021 Climate Change, Survival, and Justice by Richard Falk 8 Nov 2021 “Anti-Semitism” as Political Weapon Is Now Backfiring 1 Nov 2021 Lies That Led to Wars by John Scales Avery 25 Oct 2021 Evidently the West Cannot Live without Enemy Images–Go See a Shrink so We Shall All Live in Peace by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 18 Oct 2021 A Call to Practice an Ethic of Care by Sharing Surplus by Howard Richards 11 Oct 2021 Use of Fossil Fuels Must Stop by John Scales Avery 4 Oct 2021 The UN after 75: A Mixed Record of Disappointment and Fulfillment by Richard Falk 27 Sep 2021 The Fall of the U.S. Empire–And Then What? by Prof. Johan Galtung 20 Sep 2021 Is It Still Possible to Reverse Humanity’s March toward Self-Destruction? by Howard Richards 13 Sep 2021 Shall We Welcome the U.S./NATO Withdrawal from Afghanistan? by Richard Rubenstein 6 Sep 2021 The Other Afghanistan by René Wadlow 30 Aug 2021 Are We Building Our Own Prison Thinking We Own the Key to Our Cell? by Marilyn Langlois 23 Aug 2021 Afghanistan and the Mainstream Media Manipulation Methods by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 16 Aug 2021 Demonizing Durban by Richard Falk 9 Aug 2021 Predicting the Future by John Scales Avery 2 Aug 2021 UN: Two Empires Crumbling–and Then What? 26 Jul 2021 Israel-Palestine: What Peace Looks Like by Prof. Johan Galtung 19 Jul 2021 Contributions to Methods for Structural Transformation by Howard Richards 12 Jul 2021 “Narrative Breakthrough”: Is the Tide Turning on the Representation of the Palestinian Struggle? by Jake Lynch 5 Jul 2021 The Battle over Critical Race Theory Heats Up: Observations and Lessons Learned by Richard E. Rubenstein 28 Jun 2021 Sharing Scientific Knowledge by John Scales Avery 21 Jun 2021 Lend Self-Destructive U.S. a Hand by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 14 Jun 2021 Peacebuilding: Where Do We Go from Here? by René Wadlow 7 Jun 2021 Perception of What Happens in Complex Realities by Editorial | Opinion Sur 31 May 2021 ‘Rule-Based-International-Order’: A New Metaphor for U.S. Geopolitical Primacy by Richard Falk 24 May 2021 The Accelerating Destruction of Earth’s Biodiversity: When Will We Act? by Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. 17 May 2021 Fees Must Fall by Howard Richards 10 May 2021 The Global Fightback against Israeli Lawfare Attacks on Advocacy for Palestinian Rights by Jake Lynch 3 May 2021 Stop the Cold War on China Now and Become Partners–for the Common Good of Humanity by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 26 Apr 2021 Applications of Ahimsa-Nonviolence in Daily Life 19 Apr 2021 Fratelli Tutti and the Great Reset by Howard Richards 12 Apr 2021 The Vaccine Passport and the Dynamics of Domination by Diane Perlman 5 Apr 2021 Ecology and Economics by John Scales Avery 29 Mar 2021 Elections as Religious Rituals: When Political Conflicts Are Also Conflicts of Faith by Richard E. Rubenstein 22 Mar 2021 Who Are We? Where Are We Going? How Will We Get There? by Howard Richards 15 Mar 2021 Defeating the Global Elite’s Coup d’état: The Great Reset by Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. 8 Mar 2021 Creating a Climate for Negotiations by René Wadlow 1 Mar 2021 Unless Miracles Happen, Iran Will Soon Be Bombed by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 22 Feb 2021 Is Transcendence Emerging from Trump’s Impeachment? by Diane Perlman, PhD 15 Feb 2021 A Palestinian Balance Sheet: Normative Victories, Geopolitical Disappointments by Richard Falk 8 Feb 2021 A Non-racial Society (a Society without Racism) Must Necessarily Be an Unbounded Society by Howard Richards 1 Feb 2021 Why Britain Breaking Up Would Be Good for All Concerned by Jake Lynch 25 Jan 2021 Challenges for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris by John Scales Avery 18 Jan 2021 Destroying the Web of Life: The Destruction of Earth’s Biodiversity Is Accelerating by Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. 11 Jan 2021 The Assault on the U.S. Capitol and the Problem of Right-Wing Radicalization by Richard Rubenstein 4 Jan 2021 Psycho-Covidology: Induced Helplessness and the Exploitation of Fear by Diane Perlman, PhD 2020 28 Dec 2020 Embrace Communities to Save Humanity and the Planet by Howard Richards 21 Dec 2020 The Peace Discourse That Disappeared: Go on with Passion and Detachment by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 14 Dec 2020 It’s 2020. What Would YOU Do? by Marilyn Langlois 7 Dec 2020 Importance of the “Practice-Research-Training” Nexus in Peacebuilding by Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva 30 Nov 2020 Beware the Experts! by Naresh Jotwani 23 Nov 2020 Can We TRANSCEND the Brewing US Civil War? by Diane Perlman, Ph.D. 16 Nov 2020 Demilitarization Begins at Home by Richard Falk 9 Nov 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections: The Triumph of Neo-Tribalism by Richard E. Rubenstein 2 Nov 2020 The Habit of Passion by Prof. Johan Galtung 26 Oct 2020 A Critical U.S. Election by John Scales Avery 19 Oct 2020 Selectively Unwalking the Path of History by Howard Richards 12 Oct 2020 Preventing Violent Extremism or Media Development Aid? by Jake Lynch 5 Oct 2020 Covid: The Big Picture in 7 Charts by Swiss Policy Research 5 Oct 2020 Shared Security–How? 28 Sep 2020 Beware the Transhumanists: How ‘Being Human’ Is Being Re-Engineered by the Elite’s Coup by Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. 21 Sep 2020 The Lost Peace Discourse and the Arts as a Possible Way Out? by Jan Oberg, Ph.D. 14 Sep 2020 Coronavirus Dons a New Crown by Nuruddin Unchwaniwala and Paul Ahlquist | Science Magazine 14 Sep 2020 What World Are We Moving Into? 7 Sep 2020 The Octagon: Rank, Disequilibrium, Discordance and War Theory 31 Aug 2020 Can the U.S. Democracy Be Fixed? by Richard Falk 24 Aug 2020 Transformation: The Impact of the COVID-19 Plague on Western Political A… truncated (34,260 more characters in archive)