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Missionen på nordisk
"TFF er en tænketank og en hjemmeside. Vi arbejder for fred - dvs at lære at håndtere konflikter med stadig mindre brug af vold. Vore værktøjer er nye idéer, god lytten, forskning, konflikt-lægning, uddannelse og folkeoplysning."

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Direktør og medstifter 

- "Gandhi argued that the coward should take to violence because nonviolence requires a lot of courage.
I would add that the intellectually lazy fellow chooses violence before even thinking of nonviolent options."

- "Extremely well received, frank, lively, authoritative, outstanding, academic excellence...Dr Oberg was on the right course because his way of thinking touches everybody. The time was too short, because he makes us all think about the world in a different way"... 

TFF Feature Collection, December 2, 2004
Positive News, Views and Stories
Are you sick and tired of only hearing and seeing negative stuff about the world? Do you feel powerless, losing hope?
Then be inspired and charge you social change batteries by reading some of these stories...stories about civil courage, standing up, speaking out, showing solidarity, about inventiveness, new ideas - in short, about the fact that individuals do change the world for the better - every day!
We hope to make this a recurrent theme in TFF's work.

Jonathan Power, TFF Associate, December 2, 2004
The Ukraine could push us back to the Cold War
The Ukrainians must find a way of resolving this crisis in a way that Russia can accept. The West needs to re-think its whole post Cold War policy towards Russia. The U.S. should put a stop to its aggressive geo-political strategy and Europe must use the lure of European membership for both countries to keep Russian and Ukrainian democracy and behavior on the straight and narrow.  

Jørgen Johansen, TFF Board member, December 1, 2004
Deterrent Nonviolence - The Case of the Norwegian struggle against gas power
The best-prepared and most successful large-scale civil disobedience action in Scandinavian history never took place. Johansen tells the remarkable story that could inspire many others.

Jonathan Power, TFF Associate, November 30, 2004
Means of spreading democracy
Why should those in the West who want to extend the reach of democracy be pressed by Washington and London to choose between intervention and inaction? Why choose between two types of failure when the successful course of action is known?

Dahlia, Nagashima Park, Japan @ Jan Oberg 2004

Jonathan Power, TFF Associate, November 20, 2004
History does not justify either Israel or Palestine
The truth is that neither side has a cast iron claim to their own state on the land the British called "Palestine", and the sooner their leaders tell their people that the sooner there might be honest discussions about a peace.

Hans von Sponeck, Christian Hårleman and Jan Oberg, TFF Associates, November 17, 2004
We mourn the death of Margaret Hassan, our friend in Baghdad

PressInfo # 202, November 17, 2004
Mourning Margaret Hassan - Who and What Killed Her?
We mourn the loss of our friend Margaret. She was the victim of her direct murderers and of several others. She was the victim of the war system and the brutalisation of the human mind it invariably causes. A flame of humanism and hope for the Iraqi people and the rest of us has been extinguished. By Christian Hårleman and Jan Oberg.

TFF Feature Collection, updated since October 19, 2004
Margaret Hassan, CARE International, abducted and killed in Baghdad

Jonathan Power, TFF Associate, November 12, 2004
The chance of ending Europe's last homegrown terrorist cause
As Blair talked to Sinn Fein, Zapatero needs to talk to Batasuna and he needs to rescind Aznar's ban on the party contesting seats in the Basque regional parliament. Moreover, he should withdraw his opposition to Ibarretxe's planned referendum on Basque self-determination.

PressInfo # 201, November 11, 2004
Four more Bush years: What exciting opportunities!
Dialectical thinking would tell that President Bush's re-election is not only a problem but a great opportunity. Nine strategic arguments for optimism, hope and new ways of exploiting the situation constructively. And for learning the main lessons from the preceding four years: protesting is not enough! By Jan Oberg, TFF director.

TFF PressInfo # 200, November 4, 2004
Why Bush won. Fear-ology and the lack of alternatives
About two major reasons for his re-election - and the need for solid re-thinking among those who fought for change. By Jan Oberg, TFF director.

Ryogen-in Zen Buddhist stone garden, Kyoto, Japan @ Jan Oberg 2004

Feature, November 4, 2004 - Craig Aron writes In These Times
Timeline of a Failure - Since Bush's Inauguration January 20, 2001
- and Aron has even forgotten October 7, 2001, the war on Afghanistan...

Jonathan Power, TFF Associate, November 3, 2004
Both Bush and Kerry want to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty this month
the Law of the Sea came into force ten years ago this month. It gave the world a chance to arrange for mankind a fair distribution of its common patrimony of the seas. It could be a model to other endeavors like the slicing up of oil-rich Antarctica and Artic Ocean, the future frontiers of the moon, the planets and outer space. Some say it's a Magna Carta for the 21st century.

TFF Feature Colection, November 1, 2004
The U.S. Empire - What future, what end?
General theory & military, political, economic and other dimensions of the Empire. Will it move toward Fascism? How and when will it end? Is it already far into a decline most just don't see?

Special about Burundi, 2004 The TFF Burundi Forum See what we try to do to support the peace process. Go on a photographic trip with Jan Oberg to Bujumbura, Burundi's capital. Learn more about this story of hope from Africa.

Solveig Czeskleba-Dupont, lektor, CNAS centerleder, 1. december 2004
Anmeldelse af "Forudsigelig Fiasko"

TFF Feature - Gerald Kaufman, Labour, 1. december, 2004
Økonomiske sanktioner og våbenembargo mod Israel
Det fungerede i Sydafrika og er den eneste vej frem. At appelere til Sharons bedre jeg er spild af tid, det findes ikke...

TFF Feature - Brev fra Fallujahs befolkning, 1. december, 2004
Brev fra befolkningen i Fallujah med bøn om afslutning af
bombardementet og forhindring af det forestående angreb
Idag véd vi at det altsammen var forgæves..

Jan Øberg, 1. december, 2004
Grevil-sagen handler netop om offentlighedens interesse
Statsadvokaten forstår ikke sagen. Grevil har vist at der var en chokerende mangel på både sikker kundskab og professionalisme i den vigtigste danske udenrigs- og sikkerhedspolitiske beslutning siden 1945. Det er regeringen, ikke Grevil, der har øget danskernes usikkerhed.

PressInfo # 200, November 28, 2004
Varför Bush vann? Framkallad rädslag och brist på alternativ
Om två huvudorsaker till att han valdes igen - och om behovet av nytänkande hos dem som arbetar för förändring.

Gudrun Schyman & Jan Öberg, TFF:s styrelse, 25:e november
Från patriarkal maktutövning till mänsklig säkerhet och demokrati
Idag, den 25 november är det den "Internationella Dagen För Avskaffande Av Våld Mot Kvinnor". Generalsekreterare Kofi Annans budskap förra året var: "Könsrelaterat våld är kanske den mest avskyvärda kränkningen av de mänskliga rättigheterna. Så länge det fortsätter kan vi inte hävda att vi gör några riktiga framsteg mot jämlikhet, utveckling och fred." Här relaterar vi det könsrelaterade våldet till frågan om mänsklig säkerhet och tankar om en ny typ av försvarspolitik. En rad ledande tidningar i Sverige har tackat nej till att publicera artikeln.

Ny vigtig dansk bog af Øjvind Kyrø, 18. november 2004
"Godmorgen, Rwanda er I begyndt at arbejde?"
En håndbog i folkemord...

Nytt TFF-projekt - Nytt TFF Eslöv Forum, 11:e november 2004
Hur kan integration av flyktingar och invandrare bli bättre -
Vad befrämjar och vad utgör hinder?
Projektansvarige Christina Spännar, TFF:s stiftare, berätter här om sitt och TFF:s samarbete med Eslöv Kommun kring detta viktiga projekt. Eslöv Forum kommer att byggas ut efterhand. Följ med!

Ginkakuji Zen Buddhist stone garden, Kyoto, Japan @ Jan Oberg 2004

TFF PressInfo # 200, November 4, 2004
Hvorfor Bush vandt? Frygt-ologi og manglende alternativer
Om to hovedårsager til hans genvalg - og behovet for nytænkning hos dem, der arbejdede for forandring.
Af Jan Øberg

TFFs nordiske Gandhi-bibliografi - Publiceret i oktober 2004
Bøger om og af Gandhi, tidsskriftsartikler, videos og lænker - på norsk, dansk og svensk, rækkende cirka 80 år tilbage i tiden
Oversigten er udarbejdet af TFF-frivilllige Kirsten Rønnov Due, og vi vil gerne have kommentarer og forslag til forbedringer.

Ny bog om Ondskab...
Ondskab i det globale samfund
Om bogen "Ondskabens Psykologi" af Rolf Kuschel og Faezeh Zand samt Jan Øbergs bidrag til den.

Jan Øberg 2004 - Ny bog af TFFs direktør
Forudsigelig fiasko. Konflikten med Irak og Danmark som besættelsesmagt
Bogens grundtanker. Indholdsfortegnelse. Interviews. Anmeldelser og kommentarer omkring bogen. Og hvordan du får fat på den.

Specielt om Burundi 2004 TFF Burundi Forum Se hvad det er vi forsøger at gøre for at støtte landets fredsproces. Tag på en fotografisk rejse med Jan Øberg til Bujumbura, Burundis hovedstad. Hvorfor ikke læse om en god historie, en historie, der giver håb fra Afrika - og som du naturligvis ikke hører et suk om i medierne? En del er på engelsk, men der er også materialer på nordiske sprog. Og billeder taler sit eget sprog...

Jan Øberg, TFF direktør
Det internationale samfund. USA & Europa i det globale system. En anden verden. Tanker om fremtiden for os alle. Danske undervisningsmaterialer
Et personligt præget undervisningsmateriale med brede perspektiver, lænker, diskussiontemaer og litteraturtips for lærere og elever, der vil se på verden, Europa og USA på en anden måde - og øve sig i at se ind i fremtiden. Svarer til cirka 75 A4-sider og opdelt i sektioner, så Du let finder rundt i det.

...Alle sektioner har nordiske tekster...
Flere nye materialer

 
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