Johan Galtung Quotes

“Peace is something you make with your adversaries, not with your friends.”
― Johan Galtung, Johan Galtung: Pioneer of Peace Research

“The killed are dead, the bereaved are traumatized. The trauma may be converted to hatred that may be converted into revenge addiction.”
― Johan Galtung, Johan Galtung: Pioneer of Peace Research

“The main focus of the TRANSCEND method3 is not to merely identify who is guilty and punish those, the traditional legal approach, but to create an attractive new reality acceptable to all those involved.”
― Johan Galtung, Johan Galtung: Pioneer of Peace Research

“that the time is always ripe, that the place is here and the time is now.”
― Johan Galtung, Johan Galtung: Pioneer of Peace Research

“Gandhian economic boycott, however, combined refusal to buy English textiles with the collection of funds for the merchants precisely not to confuse the key issue by threatening their livelihood.”
― Johan Galtung, Johan Galtung: Pioneer of Peace Research