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Articles
by Jann Oberg
The most recent
on top - See also Oberg's columns in Nordic languages here and Kalejdoskop articles in Nordic languages.
2011
Jan Oberg, October 7, 2011
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize - positive and negative aspects
Jan Oberg, September 3, 2011
Libya - What Should Have Been Done?
A 3-part status with predictions after the first 6 months of yet another failed conflict-management. Please help spread it because the media will most likely ignore it.
Part I - Prologue: What We Should Have Learned By Now
Part II - What Should Have Been Done Before the NATO/US Decision to Bomb?
Part III
Status 6 Months Later and Some - Hopefully Wrong - Predictions
Jan Oberg, June 13, 2011
NATO at the crossroads after Gates' speech
Comments to Associated Press
Jan Oberg, April 28, 2011
Conversation about the situation in Libya and other Middle East - on TV Europe
Jan Oberg, April 20, 2011
What should have been done in Libya in a pro-peace perspective? -
Part I - Prologue
Jan Öberg, 2:a april 2011
Libyen - motsägelser, dåraktiga antaganden och missriktad humanism (från 21:a mars)
Jan Oberg, March 21, 2011
Libya - contradictions, foolish assumptions and flawed humanism
Jan Øberg, 18. marts 2011
Libyen - krigsdagbog (Libya - A War Diary)
In Danish from the day when each and every Danish parliamentary party went to war together, without a single MP declaring dissent.
2010
Jan Oberg, December 19, 2010
New TFF - Help shape, fund and contribute to positive peace
The 2011 Appeal
The first announcement about what TFF will do the next 25 years: An interactive, multi-, social media site
EARLY WARNING
Jan Oberg, June 27, 2010
Early warning for Burundi - It needs violence-prevention now!
Presidential elections on June 28 could turn into widespread violence. Read the background and what can be done to help 9 million people to continue their peace struggle.
Jan Oberg, June 3, 2010
Violence or non-violence on board Ship to Gaza?
What if just one person used violence or had the wrong motivation?Jan Oberg, May 26, 2010
Now member of the Ara Pacis Council for Dignity, Forgiveness, Justice and Reconciliatio, established in April in Rome. The Ara Pacis Initiative is also on Facebook
Jan Oberg, February 12, 2010
How was the largest ever on-line Security Jam?
Perhaps more technical than intellectual potentials to change the world towards peace
Jan Oberg, February 9, 2010
Stop Sweden's furtive accession to NATO!
Jan Oberg, February 7, 2010
Ikke til at bære - Enkefru Plums Støttefond i graven
Personlig kommentar til at Danmarks-historiens vigtigste fond af sin slags nu må lukke
Jan Oberg, February 1, 2010
The U.S. is now a dictatorship
Pentagon's new strategy and budget is enough as evidence and reason for a worldwide confrontation with the U.S. MIMAC - Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex.
Jan Oberg, December 19, 2009
Proposal to World Press Photo - Reconciliation and Peace Photography Jan Oberg, October 9, 2009 - blog on PCDN
Scandal: Obama gets the "peace prize"
Jan Oberg, July 23, 2009 - blog on PCDN
The post-Michael Jackson phase of human history...
Jan Øberg, Danmarks Radio, "Apropos" - 11. juni 2009
Globalisering og fred
27 min især om den hemmelige samarbejdsaftale mellem FN og NATO i et videre perspektiv.
Jan Oberg, June 3, 2009 - blog on PCDN
The long-term C5 crisis: Arguments and readings
Jan Oberg, June 3, 2009 - blog on PCDN
Condemn North Korea's nukes and question Western responses
Jan Oberg, May 11, 2009 - blog on PCDN
Nuclear weapons and mainstream media
Jan Oberg, April 5, 2009
G20 and C5 - Connecting the dots?
Reality Show for Real Politicians? -
Part 1
Annette Schiffmann & Jan Oberg
War anniversaries: It is all going so well in Iraq and the Balkans - isn't it?
March 20 marks the 6th anniversary of the Iraq War and March 24 the 10th anniversary of the destruction of Yugoslavia...
Jan Oberg, 18. januar 2009
Ser DR verden uden for Danmark?
Åbent brev til DR's ledelse og valgte redaktioner om en lille analyse af dr.dk-hjemmesiden. Det står faktisk ganske skidt til - eller?
Jan Oberg, EUObserver.com, January 13, 2009
With EU 'peace'-making into 2009
Most likely we will see more chaos and divisive action in the EU in 2009. One only has to look at the bloc's reaction to the current Middle East conflict.
2008
Jan Oberg, December 17, 2008
The Richard Falk case, Israeli authoritarianism and Western media
Jan Oberg with Transcend Media Service, December 12, 2008
A 10 min. argument for nuclear abolition
About mega-terrorism, how the Ballistic Missile Defence really works and what is needed to get rid of nuclearism.Stoppa smyganslutningen till NATO
Upprop i Svenska Dagbladet - 1:a december 2008
Över 60 svenska medborgare begär att en Medborgarkommission tillsätts och att Sverige nu får en debatt om förhållandet till Nato.
Initiativtagarna, däribland TFF:s Jan Öberg, har upprättat en hemsida just för detta här.
Al Burke & Jan Öberg
Svenska Dagbladet 19:e december 2008
Det behövs fredsmäklare som förstår försoning
Jan Oberg, October 22, 2008
Nobel Laureate Ahtisaari endorsed terrorism
Four reasons why he does not deserve Nobel's Peace Prize
Jan Oberg, October 10, 2008
Nobel Committee's choice is again a scandal.
Jan Øberg til Danmarks Radio
10. oktober 2008
Nobels Fredspris til Ahtisaari - en klokkeren skandale, igen.
October 2, 2008
Non-violence - the most viable and most ignored principle
September 29, 2008
'Bailout' - psycho-economic denial.
Or are we all doomed to domino down the drain?
September 27, 2008
Paul McCartney should not have gone to Israel....really?
September 19, 2008
Re-visiting Croatian nationalism (A)
Or, how nationalist can a country be that wants to join the European Union?
September 19, 2008
Re-visiting Croatian nationalism (B)
Observations in text and pictures from driving around in the country
September 10, 2008
September 11 seven years later and what we said at the time
September 1, 2008
War in Georgia: It had to happen
Aftonbladet, August 10, 2008
Karadzic redan dömd - i medierna
July 19, 2008
Diary from Burundi # 6
Bridging cultural divides
July 7, 2008
Who benefits from global violence and war?
Review of Mark Pilisuk and Jennifer Achord Rountree's Who benefits from global violence and war? Uncovering a destructive system.
June-July 2008
Burundi - a background
Dairy from Burundi # 5
Dairy from Burundi # 4
Dairy from Burundi # 3
Jan Oberg, 8:e juni 2008
Det svenska insatsförsvaret
Jan Öberg, 29:e maj 2008
Svenska Televisionens bevakning av frågorna kring Sveriges försvar - ett brev som inte besvarades.
Yusra Moshtat & Jan Öberg, Aftonbladet,
29:e maj 2008
Varför rulla ut röda matten?
Uppläggningen av Stockholms-konferensen vittnar om att det är västliga krigsförbrytare och deras ”demokratiska” regering i Irak, inte irakiska folket, som ska ha draghjälp av svenska regeringen. Och som vanligt ställer media inga kritiska frågor..
Jan Oberg, May 15, 2008
Kosovo - what the international 'community' never understood
Six rather simple themes which - if having been managed differently - could have produced a much better Balkans than today's.
Arne Hansen radiointerview, 2. maj 2008
Samtale om FNL's voldsudbrud omkring Burundi's hovedstad - og om den fredsprocess, der trods alt går videre.
Ina Curic & Jan Oberg
Early warning - Burundi !
Listen to Burundi’s cry now! If there ever were a case for civilian humanitarian intervention, this is it. And the time is now.
Jan Oberg, April 10, 2008
Israel denies visa to Richard Falk: Yet another Jewish fundamentalist clamp down on intellectual freedom
Jan Oberg, April 2, 2008
Diary from Burundi # 2
About smiles and hospitality as social indicators, about Christian-Muslim relations.
Jan Oberg, March 24, 2008
Diary from Burundi # 1
Observations from a mission, its purpose and the work with the Amahoro Youth Club and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Jan Oberg, February 29, 2008
Can the EU become a peace-maker in the world? In Kosovo?
Jan Oberg, February 19, 2008
Our experiment with the media on Kosovo's secession
Jan Oberg, February 17, 2008
Kosova's secession - Part 1
What is conveniently forgotten?
Jan Oberg, February 17, 2008
Kosova's secession - Part 2
What can happen after this? 17 possibilities - and when will they ever learn?
Arne Hansen, Frederikshavns Lokalradio 20. januar 2008
Samtale om Kosovo og andre aktuelle ting
Stefan de Vylder, Yusra Moshtat & Jan Öberg
Svenska Dagbladet 17:e januari 2008
Margot Wallström "glömde" kriget
Margot Wallströms svar
2007
Poul Friis, DR - 21. december 2007
Fred i verden?
En samtale og ringe-ind program om freden, julefred og anden fred.
Jan Oberg, November 22, 2007
Kosovo - failed international conflict-management.
Why we will soon see a new chapter in the tragedy called Kosovo and why it is not predominantly the fault of the local parties. Will the media do it differently this time?
With links to must-read resources.
Jan Øberg, 22. november 2007
Den kommende tragedie i Kosovo - forfejlet konflikthåndtering. (Med resourcer til forståelse)
Det kan på ingen måde gå godt i regionen i de næste få måneder og du vil måske gerne kende nogle af årsagerne hertil. Fremtiden har brug for én ting fremfor noget andet; en anerkendelse af at det internationale samfund selv er medansvarlig for den frygtelige situation i Kosovo og Bosnien og at det dybest set har sat sig selv i politisk fængsel begge steder. En ny begyndelse baseret på en række åbne, ærlige lærdomme er en nødvendighed. Jeg frygter det ikke sker.
Introductory video, October 27. 2007
TFF Video Channel on YouTube
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
In CounterPunch
Jan Öberg, 12:e oktober 2007
Nobelpriset 2007 till Al Gore - en allvarlig felbedömning
Jan Oberg, OneWorld - October 1, 2007
Mistranslating, misinterpreting and demonising Ahmadinejad
About MIMAC, the Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex and its role in promoting war and manufacture threats that don't exist.
Jan Oberg and TFF Board, August 16, 2007
TFF's 10 Point Plan
Towards Peace In and With Iraq
A contructive proposal from the Transnational Foundation in Sweden
Jan Øberg, 31. juli 2007
Danmarks tilbagetrækning fra Irak - en ny udenrigspolitisk skandale
Video på 1 min.
Aleksandar Mitic & Jan Oberg, July 19, 2007
A new beginning for Kosovo
During the last almost 20 years, the Kosovo conflict has been handled by the international community on the basis of three counterproductive assumptions. One, it was believed that it could be dealt with as a special case. Two, it was seen as a political power issue rather than a case for professional conflict-resolution. Three, there was a belief that the lack of mediation could be covered up by NATO’s “peacemaking” bombings in 1999. Albanians and Serbs have all reason to feel cheated by the international community. It must now make a new beginning.
Jan Oberg and 16 TFF Associates, July 12, 2008
Blair is the wrong man for the job
Jan Oberg, OneWorld, June 28, 2007
Blair "our" envoy: The poverty of the UN and the West
Jan Oberg, June 20, 2007
Why "unique" Kosovo must become independent
Look back a bit to the 1990s and you will understand the incredibly biased articles by the bombing enthusiasts of 1999.
Jan Øberg, Jyllands-Posten
23. maj 2007
Støt Burundis enestående
fredsproces nu!
Fred og udvikling er endnu ikke sikret. Og 300.000 lider lige nu af
hungersnød. Hvert år giver verden desværre Burundi
mindre end 50 pct. af den nødvendige humanitære bistand
på skaldede 150 mio. dollars; det svarer til én dags amerikansk
krigsførelse i Irak. Verdens prioriteter er absurde.
Det er nu, Burundi skal have hjælp, og vi skal forebygge en ny
krig. Og hvorfor ikke give Nobels fredspris til Burundis syv millioner
fredskæmpende mennesker?
Jan Öberg, Aftonbladets
Debatt 21:e maj, 2007
Förhindra
ett nytt folkmord!
Folkmordet i Burundi krävde 300 000 människors liv. När
konflikten ebbade ut och fredsuppbyggandet kom igång försvann
världssamfundets intresse för världens tredje fattigaste
land.
Aleksandar
Mitic & Jan Oberg, May 9, 2007
Kosovo's
Pandora Box
One of the most dangerous and unrealistic ideas circulating today in
international politics consists of considering the Serbian province
of Kosovo as a “unique” case. Under such thinking, Kosovo’s
independence should be imposed on Serbia in breach of all international
laws and UN SC 1244.
Jan
Öberg, 8:e maj 2007
Kommentar till
Sveriges Televisions "Aktuellt" inslag om domarna mot serbiska
krigsförbrytare
Risken att legitimera krig när det saknas en bredare ram och källkritik.
Brevet har aldrig besvarats av Aktuellt.
Jan Öberg, 1:e maj 2007
Kosovo behöver en lösning som alla kan leva med
Refuserad debatt-artikel till Sydsvenska Dagbladet...
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...
Jan
Oberg, OneWorld US, April 2007
The UK-Iran
dispute: Appealing to cooler heads
Jan
Oberg, OneWorld US, March 2007
Putting Europe
to the peace test
Isn't it strange that there is not a word about
disarmament, nuclear abolition (the EU is a nuclear-based union), nonviolence,
reconciliation, no peace-making philosophy or any serious adherence
to the UN Charter in the proposed EU Treaty?
Yusra
Moshtat & Jan Oberg, March 19-20, 2007
Support
peaceful plan so the U.S. can leave Iraq
Let’s
stop shouting only “The US out of Iraq”. Unless combined
with a vision of a decent, respectful and helpful international mission
in Iraq and a better policy plan for the Middle East, that slogan plays
into the hand of those who advocate ongoing occupation. It’s not
a matter of leaving Iraq, it’s a matter of being there in a completely
different way. Dennis
Kucinich's plan deserves worldwide support.
Yusra
Moshtat & Jan Öberg
Göteborgs-Posten, 16:e mars 2007
Stöd
fredlig plan för att USA ska lämna Irak
Det finns bara ett sätt att få stopp på den pågående
och accelererande konflikten i Irak: De USA-stödda trupperna måste
lämna landet. Först då kan en folklig fredsprocess inledas
och den bör bland annat bygga på den demokratiske presidentkandidaten,
Dennis Kucinich's visionära plan, skriver Yusra Moshtat och Jan
Öberg apropå fyraårsdagen sedan kriget startade.
Jan
Oberg, The Christian Science Monitor,
March 15, 2007
Keep
Africa's good-news story good
War-ravaged Burundi has made amazing gains recently. But it urgently
needs aid.
Johan
Galtung, Jan Öberg & Håkan Wiberg,
Aftonbladet, 5:e mars 2007
"Ohållbart
om Kosovo"
Ahtisaaris plan är orättvis och kommer att leda till ökat
våld. Varför är Martti Ahtisaaris så kallade medling
om Kosovo och presstäckningen av denna så partisk och så
lite objektiv?
Galtung,
Øberg & Wiberg,
Jyllands-Posten, 28. februar 2007
En uholdbar plan
Martti Ahtisaaris forslag til Kosovo-provinsens fremtidige status er
fredsforhindrende, mener forfatterne, der er tilknyttet den Transnationale
Stiftelse for Freds- og Fremtidsforskning, TFF. De har fulgt udviklingen
på Balkan i over 30 år.
Yusra Moshtat & Jan
Öberg
Svenska Dagbladet 27:e februari 2007
Bildt
tiger om USA:s krigsbrott
Även som Sveriges utrikesminister har han försvarat USA:s
folkrättsliga brott. Inte ett enda kritiskt ord har utrikesministern
formulerat mot detta vidriga krig, som skördar minst 100 människoliv
varje dag.
Artikeln åstadkom hundratals blog-inlägg...
Aleksandar
Mitic & Jan Oberg
International Herald Tribune, February 22, 2007
The
Kosovo example
A much-shortened argument of a longer article to be published elsewhere.
Jan Oberg,
February 14, 2007
What
is peace? Summary of my 35 years of thinking and practising
Jan Oberg,
October 6, 2006
Does
the European Union Promote Peace?
Analysis, Critique and Alternatives.
A new booklet by TFF's director. One of the very few systematic analyses
of the often-stated claim that the EU is an actor for peace.
While it may not be completely false, the EU peace capabilities leaves
very much to be desired. Intellectually and morally its proposed Constitution
is a great step backwards compared with the 60 year old UN Charter.(Free
download of PDF. Please make your honour payment here).
Dansk version.
Svensk
sammanfattning.
Håkan
Wiberg & Jan Oberg, September 22, 2006
Monenegro
- A state is born
Gives
a historical account and analyses the independence as a result of re-defining
identities, re-writing history, of the international game with Milosevic,
of strange voting rules and referendum criteria. It may go well for
Montenegro, but there is no guarantee.
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!
Jan Øberg,
Grønlandsk Kultur- og Samfundsforskning 2004-05
Balancér
Igaliku-aftalen med fredspolitik
Det drejer sig om den grønlandsk-dansk-amerikanske aftale, der
giver USA carte blanche til at anvende Thule-basen. Artiklen gennemgår
hvad aftalen siger og ikke siger og placerer den inden for rammerne
af den amerikanske strategi for atomkrigsførelse.
Derpå stiller Øberg 7 forslag til hvorledes Grønland
fremover også kan bidrage til en fredeligere verden, nu man -
formodentligt lidt uforvarende - er kommet til at medvirke til en mulig
atomkrig.
Foredraget gav anledning til en del debat i Grønland og publiceres
nu i Grønlands Universitets - Ilimatusarfiks - Årsbog på
Forlaget Atuagkat.
Dansk DR 2 - 21.
maj 2006
Ouafas
Fredsmission
Det er i aften de begynder - 8 programmer på dansk DR 2 om konflikter,
alternativ konfliktløsning og forsoning. Et enestående
TV-initiativ, et pædagogisk tilbud om at forstå konflikter
på en ganske anden måde - faktisk 8 stykker fredsjournalistik.
Sæt dig godt til rette og få både oplevelser og håb.
Nu i aften 20.00 - 20.30. Mere her,
dog er det forkert når det siges at serien begynder den 28. Den
begynder i aften den 21. maj.
PS Alle 8 programmer genudsendes, check lige hvornår så
du selv, dine venner og kolleger får chancen.
Jan Øberg,
23. marts, 2006
Dansk
FN-diplomat roser og beskytter formodede krigsforbrydere
Jessen-Petersen, FN missionens leder i Kosovo, forhindrer - efter ordre
fra højere magter - at vi nogensinde vil kunne få klarhed
over hvem der stod bag forbrydelser mod serberne i Kroatien og i Kosovo.
Hvis ærinde går han og FN hér?
PressInfo 235,
2:a april, 2006
Muhamad-karikatyrerne
(3): Grandet och bjälken: Vi måste lära oss att se vår
egen kulturblindhet
Den ena sidan av globaliseringens mynt visar naturligtvis hur vi ser
på oss själva. Men den andra visar - oavsett om vi kan förstå
det eller tycker om det - hur de andra ser på oss. I detta globaliseringens
tidevarv går det inte för någon, stark eller svag,
att ignorera denna andra sidan. Varje försök att med makt
eller våld påtvinga andra våra egna värden och
synpunkter som om de vore universella kommer att fungera som ett recept
på global förstörelse, allas kamp emot alla. Vare sig
mer eller mindre.
Artikeln avslutas med en lång rad "kanske kunde vi lära oss
att..."
PressInfo 235,
March 22, 2006
Muhammed-karikaturerne
(3): Splinten og bjælken: Vi må lære at se vores egen
kulturelle blindhed
Den ene side af globaliseringens mønt er naturligvis hvordan
vi ser på os selv. Men den anden er - uanset om vi kan forstå
eller synes om det - hvordan de andre ser på os. I denne globaliseringstid
vil ingen, hverken stærk eller svag, slippe godt fra at ignorere
denne anden side af mønten. Ethvert forsøg på med
magt og vold at påtvinge andre vores egne værdier og synspunkter
vil før eller siden forvandles til en opskrift på global
ødelæggelse, alles kamp mod alle. Intet mindre.
Artiklen afsluttes med en lang række "måske kunne vi lære
at..."
PressInfo 235,
March 17, 2006
The
Muhammad caricatures (3): The speck and the log. We must learn to see
our own cultural blindness
One side of the coin is what we in the West think of ourselves. The
other side is what they think of us. No one, strong or weak,
can afford anymore to ignore the other side of the coin, the coin of
globalisation. And forcing people to share our view of ourselves is
a recipe for world destruction, no less. End with a series of "perhaps
we could..." learn something important.
Jan Oberg, March
13, 2006
The
real story: How Milosevic was much more evil than you ever knew
The media call him a butcher and compare him with Stalin, Mao and Hitler.
That's right, but they don't give us the the broader picture. At his
death I choose to tell you how I believe he alone caused all
the troubles - and I met him. The evil of Milosevic is grossly understated
by Western politicians, diplomats and media. Indeed, I've found reasons
to believe that he can be tied to the genocides in Rwanda and Burundi
too.
I've been a witness. These is my findings. I can no longer keep silent.
Part 1
| Part 2
| Part 3
PressInfo 234,
March 10, 2006
Western
peace prevention continues in former Yugoslavia
If you believe that Western politics should serve as a model of decency,
fairness and principled policies, consider the topical news concerning
Kosovo's future status and new leader, Montenegro's referendum, Serbia,
etc. The Western propaganda calls it mediation - believed by those who
don't know what mediation is. It's sheer power politics as usual.
PressInfo 234,
21. marts, 2006
Vestens
fredsforebyggelse fortsætter på Balkan
Hvis du har den opfattelse at vestlig politik bør tjene som model
for anstændighed, fairness og principfast politik ude i verden,
så kig lige på de aktuelle emner fra det tidligere Jugoslavien
såsom Kosovos status, Montenegros folkeafstemning, krigsforbryderne,
Kosovos nye statsminister etc. Vestlige medier kalder det mægling
mens det er rå magtpolitik, der meget vel kan lede til nye problemer
på Balkan. Men så vil det være serbernes skyld.
PressInfo 235,
16:e mars, 2006
Västvärldens
fredsförhindrande politik fortsätter på Balkan
Om Du tror att västvärldens politik bör fungera som mönster
för anständighet, rättvisa och ett principiellt politisk
handlande, bör Du tänka över de aktuella nyheter från
före detta Jugoslavien om Kosovos framtida status, dess nya statsminister,
Montenegros folkomröstning, krigsförbrytere, etc. Västlig
propaganda kallar det medling och de som inte ved vad medling är
tror på det.
PressInfo 233,
11 februari, 2006
Mohamedkarikatyrerna
(2): Det finns ju ett sammanhang !
Om ett större sammanhang rättas till, skulle Danmark - dess
regering och folk - tvingas ställa frågan: Vad har vi gjort
fel i så mångas ögon under de senaste 10-15 åren?
Detta skulle öppna för någon sorts lärdom och långsiktig
försoning med dem som uppfattas som fiender. Hittills har den danska
regeringen och de danska massmedierna - jodå, det finns naturligtvis
några undantag - hållit sig på den senare, sammanhangslösa
vägen. Det bådar illa. Det kommer det att väcka ilska
hos ännu fler av världens medborgare.
PressInfo 233,
February 9, 2006
The
Muhammad caricatures (2): But there is a context!
There is a context to the Muhammad caricatures. If that context
is addressed, Denmark - its government and people - would have to ask:
What have we done wrong in the eyes of so many during the last 10-15
years? That would open for some kind of learning and long- term reconciliation
with the perceived enemies.
But if that context is ignored, Denmark will react only with self-pity,
feeling misunderstood and sink deeper into it cultural insensitivity
and institutionalized lack of self-criticism and empathy. This means
more conflict in Denmark and more conflict between Denmark and the Muslim
world.
PressInfo 233,
9. februar, 2006
Muhammed-karikaturerne
(2): Men der er jo en større sammanhæng !
Hvis man tager denne større sammenhæng med i betragtningerne
over det der sker i disse uger så må Danmark, regering og
befolkning, udfordre sig selv og spørge: Hvad er det vi synes
at have gjort så forkert i så manges øjne de sidste
10-15 år? En ærlig diskussion ville givetvis bidrage til
at skabe ny kundskab og åbne døren for en mere forsonende,
mindre kulturblind, måde at forholde sig til resten af verden
på.
Men hvis man fortsætter med i politik og medier at stirre sig
blind på disse tegninger og droppe den større sammenhængen
så vil den danske reaktion forblive selvmedlidende. Og som "offer"
kommer man at synke dybere ned i kulturel ufølsomhed.
PressInfo 232,
9. februari, 2006
Mohamedkarikatyrerna
(1): Förtrycksfrihet
I dessa dagar fruktar jag att den västliga civilisation i snabbt
ökande grad framstår som helt befriat från inlevelse
och medkänsla, för öppen debatt och för den civilcourage
som behövs för att be om ursäkt.
Det här rör sig inte om huruvida somliga ser för negativt
på Danmark - det gör de säkert. Det helt centrala är
att den aktuella danska politiken är huvudorsaken till att mlijoner
har en så negativ bild av landet.
Det kan mycket väl tänkas att vi nu bevittnar början
til en utveckling, som kommer att sluta i en katastrof för oss
alla.
PressInfo 232,
8. februar, 2006
Muhammed-karikaturerne:
Undertrykkelsesfrihed
I disse dage frygter jeg at den vestlige civilisation i stigende grad
opfattes af andre som blottet for indlevelse og medfølelse, for
egentlig åben debat og for den civilcourage der er brug for når
man skal sige "Undskyld, vi skulle have håndteret det hér
lidt anderledes."
Det hér drejer sig ikke om hvorvidt nogle mennesker dømmer
Danmark som helhed for hårdt - og det gør de såmænd
nok. Det helt centrale er at den aktuelle danske politik er hovedårsagen
til at millioner har fået dette billede af Danmark og danskerne.
Det kan meget vel tænkes at vi nu er vidner til begyndelse af
en udvikling, der efterhånden vil ende i en katastrofe for os
alle.
PressInfo 232,
February 7, 2006
The
Muhammad caricatures (1): Freedom of suppression
These days I fear that Western culture increasingly comes across as
lacking both empathy, self-critical debate and the courage to say, We
are sorry! My native country is now a rogue state in the eyes of millions
of fellow human beings. Whether or not this is a fair judgment of Denmark
is not the issue. The issue is that Danish politics is a prime reason
that those millions hold that image.
We could well be witnessing the beginning of a drift towards unparalleled
catastrophe, writes TFF director Jan Oberg who is a Danish citizen.
Jan Oberg, January
21, 2006
At
the death of President Dr. Ibrahim Rugova in Kosovo
Jan Øberg,
10 januari 2006
Om
SVT:S Aktuellt Iran-bevakning
Fria medier ska givetvis inte skicka fredsbudskap eller arbeta för
nedrustning. Men de ska inte heller bidra - medvetet eller på
grund av icke-existerande analys - till att legitimera upprustning eller
våldsanvändning som sanktioner och/eller krig. Aktuellts
inslag gjorde indiskutabellt det.
TFF-ere deltager
i Åbent Brev, Berlingske Tidende, 2. januar 2006
Sandhedens
time: Forlad Irak inden sommer
Åbent brev
til statsminister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Kære Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Danmark har nu en historisk mulighed:
meld klart ud om tilbagetrækningen af de danske soldater i Irak.
Samtidig bør du garantere, at Danmark ikke vil lade irakerne
i stikken, men at vi vil bruge mindst tilsvarende ressourcer på
civile bidrag til genopbygningen af det irakiske samfund under ledelse
af FN.
Jan Oberg - December
13, 2005
Save
the life of Stanley "Tookie" Williams
Williams was executed today. Oberg's appeal letter to Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
PressInfo 231,
December 9, 2005
Is
the European Union pro-peace?
Read the Constitution/Treaty text and you are in for a surprise! Contrary
to what you have heard repeatedly, there is no hope for real conflict-resolution
and peace there. In this field, the EU is more in need of reform than
the United Nations. This PressInfo also includes information about TFF's
work concerning the EU, not the least Johan Galtung's analysis and Erni
& Ola Friholt's constructive re-formulations of the Treaty. By Jan
Oberg.
Aleksandar Mitic
& Jan Oberg in the International Herald Tribune
December 5, 2005
Response
to Hashim Thaci's article on Kosovo's independence
A few counterarguments to Thaci's article about Kosovo's independence.
IHT printed a much shortened version; here is our article in full.
PressInfo 228,
10. november 2005 (dansk)
Kosovo
- mange andre muligheder end uafhængighed
Det internationale samfund mangler en principfast politik og strategi
for Kosovo. Det gør det muligt for visse aktører at hævde
at der kun findes én løsning - deres egen. Udviklingen
i spillet om Kosovo lover ikke godt for alle dem, der måtte håbe
på både retfærdighed og fred i og omkring provinsen.
I princippet er der mange mulige løsninger - og vi nævner
dem. Men en stagnerende politisk tankegang og fraværet af en principfast
politik plus ren ønsketænkning om fremtiden gør
det stadigt særere at se en rimelig løsning. Og derfor
kan vold bestemt ikke udelukkes i fremtiden.
PressInfo 228,
27 oktober, 2005
Kosovo:
Många valmöjligheter utom oberoende
Det internationella samhället saknar en principfast politik och
strategi för Kosovo. Det gör det möjligt för vissa
aktörer att hävda att det bara finns en enda lösning:
deras egen. Utvecklingen i spelet om Kosovo bådar illa för
alla som hoppas på både fred och rättvisa i och kring
provinsen. I princip är många lösningar möjliga,
men ett stagnerande politiskt tänkande och avsaknaden av principfast
politik kopplat till rent önsketänkande om framtiden försvårar
avsevärt en rimlig lösning. Därför kan våld
definitivt inte uteslutas i framtiden.
PressInfo 228,
October 27, 2005
Kosovo:
Many options but independence
The international community lacks a principled policy and strategy for
Kosovo. This plays into the hands of actors who believe that there is
only one solution: their own. The latest developments in Kosovo bodes
ill for those who want both justice and peace in and around Kosovo.
In principle many solutions are possible, but rigid thinking and lack
of principle coupled with wishful thinking remain major stumbling blocks
and, thus, new violence can not be excluded. By Jan Oberg and Aleksandar
Mitic.
Jan Oberg, October
27, 2005
Letter
about Burundi to BBC
A short letter to a forum debate and program on "Can rebels be woed
from the bush?" Oberg - just back from Burundi - offers the case of
this country as a positive example of a peace process that has integrated
all but one guerilla movement.
Jan Øberg,
20. september 2005
Freds-
og konfliktpsykologi
"Introduktion til psykologi" - Danmarks største psykologibog;
2. udgave nu med et kapitel af Øberg om bl.a. vold, krig, menneskets
natur, civilisationspsykologi, forsoning, fred, ikkevold, magt og kvinder
som en særlig fredsressource. 1314 sider, 499 danske kroner. Læs
mere og bestil her.
Jan Oberg, September
16, 2005
Eurasia:
A New Peace Agenda (2005)
New book on this region, contents in three: 1. Dialogue of civilisations
for peace; 2. Security in Eurasia: Old dilemmas and new challenges;
3. Globalisation and regionalization. Area experts, international relations
and peace scholars. Oberg's chapter is on "Western Conflict-Management
as Militarism and Imperialism" written in 2002.
Jan Øberg,
8. august 2005
Atombombens
generationer
Gæst hos DR P1 Formiddag - med Poul Friis
58 min samtale og ringe-ind-program.
Interview med Jan
Øberg i Kristeligt Dagblad, 5. august 2005
Da
mennesket gjorde sig Gud lig
Fredsforsker efterlyser læren af Hiroshima.
Af Else Marie Nygaard.
Jan Øberg
Ny bog om EU, 5. augiust 2005
Fremmer
EU freden?
Hovedkonklusioner og hvordan du downloader den.
Drude Dahlerup
om TFF & NyAgenda bog, 1. august, 2005
Fremmer
EU freden - om et seminar og en ny bog
Jan Øberg's "Fremmer EU freden - Analyse, kritik og alternativer"
udkommer den 4. august 2005. Traktatforslaget er ikke halvt så
visionært som den nu 60 år gamle FN-pagt. At EU er et fredsprojekt
er en myte, også selvom unionen ikke er en ny militaristisk supermagt.
Se her hvorfor! Øberg fremlægger 25 forslag til hvorledes
EU skulle kunne blive en freds-union. Seminar i København. Bogens
hovedindhold mm.
PressInfo 222,
Juli, 2005
Srebrenicas
muslimer mindet - resten fortiet
Der er al grund til at mindes massakren udført af serbiske soldater
på uskyldige muslimske civile i Srebrenica for 10 år siden.
Men med mindre det betragtes som acceptabelt at kvantificere forbrydelser
og at misbruge menneskelig lidelse politisk, er der ingen gyldig begrundelse
for at glemme eller fortie andre massakrer, etniske udrensninger og
terrorbombninger, i hvilke andre uskyldige civile mistede livet. Har
medierne lært noget som helst i disse ti år? Af Jan Øberg.
PressInfo 222,
July 11, 2005
Srebrenica
Muslims Remembered, the Rest Silenced
There is every reason to commemorate the massacre by Serb soldiers on
innocent Muslim civilians in Srebrenica ten years ago today. But unless
it is considered acceptable to quantify crimes and politically misuse
human suffering, there is no plausible reason to forget or silence other
cases of massacres, ethnic cleansing and terror bombings in which other
innocent people lost their lives. The coverage of the Srebrenica massacre
proves that mainstream media have learned nothing since 1990. By Jan
Oberg.
Swedish Peace Prize
to Jan Oberg & TFF, April 21, 2005
The
"2005 Small Peace Prize" by the Swedish Peace Council
About the Council, its motivation and Oberg's words of gratitude.
New book on Media
and World Affairs
Democratizing
Global Media
One World. , Many Struggles
Edited by Robert A. Hackett & Yuezhi Zhao
Includes Jan Oberg's chapter "The Iraq Conflict and the Media: Embedded
with War rather than with Peace and Democracy."
See
contents and order your copy here
The
Kosovo Solution Series - 10 articles on the future of Kosovo together
with TFF Associate Aleksandar Mitic
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