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• Network of more than 100 Associates - some of the best scholars, thinkers, activists and opinion-leaders of our time. Many of them have pioneered work that later became widely accepted fields: peace research, field-applied conflict-mitigation, humiliation studies, reconciliation research, multi-disciplinary academic+ work, nonviolence, alternative defence... • Many analyses in academic journals and some 50 TFF books and reports. • The founders have contributed to some 40 internationally recognised books beyond TFF's own publications. • Ever more partners worldwide - NGOs, institutes, Internet sites, etc. • Early contributions to the development of alternative military and civilian defence, among them "Winning Peace" by Associates Fischer, Nolte and Oberg.
• Dialogue research in the 1980s before the end of the Cold War with American, Russian and Scandinavian scholars on economy, ecology and ethics. • More than 1000 newspaper articles, book chapters and media interviews, including CNN, Radio Netherlands, Kyodo. Having created TNN, The TFF News Navigator - the largest collection of both mainstream and alternative media on the Internet. • One of the founders has given some 1200 public lectures and interviews around the world - TFF's 100 Associates reach many thousands a year. • Getting on the ground early and doing conflict diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. TFF was among the first to apply peace research in conflict zones and not just at a safe distance in research institutes. • Long-range view of conflict formations and not just single spots at a time. • Having kept peace research alive and kicking in Lund while Lund University closed down LUPRI, the Lund University Peace Research Institute (1963-1989) and the Danish government closed down COPRI, the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (1985-2004). Yet other Nordic peace institutes became highly institutionalized and well-funded but lost the original altenativist and nonviolent thrust.
• Conflict-mitigation in ex-Yugoslavia since 1991, some 80 missions, 25 reports and books, the first being "After Yugoslavia, What?" from 1991. • Mediation between Serbs and Albanians about Kosovo, the only sustained dialogue and an alternative peace plan - years before the bombing of Yugoslavia when peace was still a possibility. • We wrote "Preventing War in Kosovo" already in 1992 and in 1996 presented a model for a negotiated solution, highly appreciated by the UN which, unfortunately, could not act at the time. • Conflict analysis in Georgia, including Abkhasia and South Ossetia in the early 1990s. • Alternative peace plans for the Balkans based on more than 3000 interviews. • Contribution to the United Nations 50th Anniversary Volume. It was edited by TFF Associate Jonathan Power, a columnist with the International Herald Tribune and 50 other dailies around the world. We publish him every week since 1997.
• Participation in several UN-related projects and co-operation with various peace-keeping missions. We have worked consistently for the fine UN norm of "peace by peaceful means." • The Learning Conflict program - teaching peace, conflict-understanding and reconciliation. Given all over the Balkans, in Palestine, various places in Europe, universities and to the general public. • Training programs with the UN in Croatia and with the Council of Europe. • Reconciliation seminars with Croat and Serb youth, media people, young leaders. • Educational efforts - hundreds of lectures, training seminars, courses, visiting chairs, academic and public education, based on solid knowledge, theoretical as well as from the field. • A plan for peace education and reconciliation training for Burundi's Ministry of Education and NGOs. • Making conflict-analysis and -mitigation in Iraq a priority when few others dared - see Iraq Forum and books and articles about alternatives to the war. • Tasked by the UNHCR to produce a comprehensive conflict risk-assessment for Macedonia. • The launch of our first homepage already in 1997 with the present one launched in 2006. It is one of the largest in the field with an average of 3000+ visits per day - or over 1 million a year. Site philosophy.
• Our free e-mail service to about 20.000 direct recipients, reaching de facto 2-3 times more in 75 countries with Associate articles, PeaceBrowser and PeaceTips. • Working also in the local community in Sweden, seeking to smoothen the integration of asylum-seekers and others coming from war-torn regions. See the project in Eslöv and Malmö, Sweden. • Working with 12 civil society organisations in Burundi to empower, educate and train citizens in reconciliation and non-violent conflict-resolution as part of the country's peace process. Burundi Forum. • Having Paul McCartney - Sir Paul - as Honorary TFF Friend. • What people say about us - and what they have said in the 1990s • Having recently begun to work with conflict-resolution and reconciliation in Greenland
• Scholarly based + field-work + education + policy-oriented + activism. • Never only anti-violence - always pro-peace. • Small, flexible, networking, broad scope. • Multi-cultural, gender- and age-balanced. • Producing facts + criticism + constructive proposals - never only one of them. • Remaining independent of commercial, party political, religious interests and every other special interest. • Genuinely Non-governmental while many NGOs have become Near-governmental . • All-volunteer - no one is employed or paid. • Consistent long-term commitment to peace and to citizens in selected conflict zones. • True to certain values, persistent in pursuing and stating them. • High productivity throughout the network. • People-financed. All achieved on an annual budget of about Euro 25.000 or US$ 30.000. • Motivated by what we believe is important - seeking nothing but what we see as the truth. • Largely critical of mainstream and, thus, politically incorrect to some extent. • Unconditionally supportive of the UN norm of peace by peaceful means. • More info in TFF Brochure.
• Reconciliation and forgiveness Hammerich, Hårleman, Lindner,
Oberg
• Iraq - early fact-finding, later mitigation, nonviolence and reconciliation
"The Transnational
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• Nonviolence, Gandhi and India Jan Oberg's ten-article travelogue with photos
• European Union conflict handling
• Sweden - Integration Project A project by founder Christina Spännar on how to improve the integration of refugees and other immigrants in a small municipality in Southern Sweden - the global in the local...
• Annual reports
• Everything else about TFF Download the TFF Flyer, print it out and give it to a friend
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All photos by Jan Oberg © Oberg,TFF
2005
1. This page marks our 20th Anniversary. In substantial terms, we show you what we have done, what we do and, thus, where we are heading. Other organisations make printed anthologies or anniversary books. That's not our philosophy. And we don't spend TFF Friends' donations on celebrating ourselves. 2. If you want an introductory course to peace studies, world order and conflict transformation - select your main texts among the materials in the right-hand column and use the rest of this site as your library. TFF Associates have covered the Middle East, Korea, Africa and other international affairs over these 20 years. Just use the search engine on the front page. This is our gift to you. TFF is your peace education site. Our way of celebrating TFF's 20th Anniversary. You are invited to reward TFF and its Associates around the world by supporting our ongoing peace work here.
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Associates provided think pieces and essential perspectives
- and made predictions that stood the test of time • On why the post-Cold War period could become a great disappointment TFF Statement 1989 Jan Oberg 1990 Jan Oberg 1991
• On September 11 and terrorism Chaiwat Satha-Anand 1999 Jonathan Power 2001 Jonathan Power 2001 Jonathan Power 2002 Daisaku Ikeda 2001 Robert Jay Lifton 2001 Johan Galtung 2002 Scilla Elworthy 2005
• On the revival nonviolent politics and Gandhi Richard Falk 1998 Ashis Nandy 2001 Tom Weber 2001 Glenn D. Paige 2002 Riane Eisler 2004 Richard Falk 2004 Chaiwat Satha-Anand 2005 Jonathan Power 2005
• On nuclearism and nuclear abolition David Krieger 1999 David Krieger 2002
Richard Falk & David Krieger 2002 Jan Oberg 2002 David Krieger 2003 Jonathan Power 2003 Gunnar Westberg 2005
• On Ex-Yugoslavia and the international community Cullberg, Schierup, Sommelius & Oberg
1991 Cullberg, Schierup, Sommelius & Oberg
1992 Kerstin Schultz 1994 TFF conflict mitigation team 1996 Biljana Vankovska 1999 Jan Oberg 1999 Biljana Vankovska 2001 TFF Associates Jan Oberg 2003 Håkan Wiberg Aleksandar Mitic & Jan Oberg 2005
• On the European Union's peace deficit Jonathan Power 1997 Per Gahrton 1999 Christian Hårleman & Jan Oberg
2001 Jan Oberg 2005 Erni & Ola Friholt
• On Burundi Jan Oberg 2004 Chantal Mutamuriza, Adolphe Sururu &
Jan Oberg 2005 The TFF Amahoro Coalition with 12 Burundian
NGOs 2005
• On reforming the United Nations and its peace-building TFF Statement 1991 Fischer, Nakarada, Falk, Hårleman and
Oberg 2000 Dietrich Fischer 2000 Jonathan Power 2002 Richard Falk 2003 Hazel Henderson 2003 Richard Falk 2005
• On why invading Iraq would lead to disaster Jonathan Power
1999 Hans von Sponeck 2001 Jan Oberg (2002) David Krieger & Richard Falk 2002 Hans von Sponeck 2002 David Krieger 2002 Jan Oberg, 2003 Jan Oberg 2003
• ... and on alternatives in the Iraq conflict Brian Martin 2002 Hans von Sponeck & Jan Oberg 2002 Dietrich Fischer & Johan Galtung
2002 Jonathan Power 2002 David Krieger 2003 Jonathan Power 2005 Richard Falk 2005
• On the likely end of the U.S. Empire Jonathan Power 1997 Jonathan Power 1999 Jonathan Power 2001 Richard Falk 2002 Francis A. Boyle 2002 Johan Galtung 2003 David Krieger 2002
• On world order and the future of humankind Mahdi Elmandjra 1990 + 2003 Jonathan Power 1997 Jonathan Power 1998 David Krieger 2001 Johan Galtung 2000 Kamran Mofid 2002 Jonathan Power 2002 Nur Yalman 2002 Daisaku Ikeda 2003 Chaiwat Satha-Anand 2003 Brian Urquhart 2003 Francis A. Boyle 2004 Daisaku Ikeda 2005 Kamran Mofid 2005
• On alternative, defensive civil and military security Dietrich Fischer, Wilhelm Nolte and Jan
Oberg 1989 Dietrich Fischer 2000 David Krieger 2001 Riane Eisler 2005 Scilla Elworthy 2005
• On the psychology of peace Robert Jay Lifton 1999 Jan Oberg 1999 Riane Eisler 2000 Evelin Lindner 2001 Christina Spännar, co-founder 2001 Jonthan Power 2001 Evelin Lindner 2002 Robert Jay Lifton 2004 Annette Schiffmann 2005 Evelin Lindner 2005
• On peace research and its developments Jan Oberg 1998 Jan Oberg 2001 Else Hammerich 2001 Glenn D. Paige 2002 Johan Galtung 2005 Annabel McGoldrick & Jake Lynch
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