Johan Vincent Galtung is a Norwegian sociologist who is the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. He was the main founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo in 1959 and served as its first director until 1970.
In Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan, wearing a colourful headscarf has become an act of defiance. Under Taliban rule, women are not merely being denied education, employment and freedom of movement; even
An armed rubber duck has become the unlikely centre of Germany’s latest debate over military expansion, recruitment and the normalisation of military culture. The miniature toy, dressed in a Bundeswehr uniform and carrying an assault rifle, sold out within hours
Michel Foucault died in 1984, but his intellectual influence continues to shape debates about power, surveillance, identity and political resistance. Four decades after his
Russia’s war against Ukraine has always extended beyond the question of territorial control. For Vladimir Putin, the conflict is part of a much larger
Last October, we had two important anniversary messages. One came through loud and clear in the Western media: the anniversary of the triumph of the Chinese Revolution, guided by Mao, restoring China
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