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Johan Galtung,
TFF Associate, August 23, 2006
What
does professionalization in peace research
mean?
A path-breaking analysis - with autobiographical inputs - of
how to move beyond the dichotomy between government
"Realism" and civil society organizations/peace movements
"Idealism." Deals also with the code of conduct and
accountability of the peace reseacrcher/worker and the
parallel with the health worker.
Michel
Chossudovsky, TFF Associate, August 21, 2006
Crying
wolf: Terror alerts based on fabricated
intelligence
The sequence of terror alerts based on phony information,
repeated over several years, inevitably creates amidst the
British and American public, a sense of disbelief: an
uncomfortable feeling that both Scotland Yard and the
British Home office are lying. The counter-terrorism
apparatus is desperately crying wolf, which could
potentially trigger in the United Kingdom, a political
crisis of immeasurable consequence.
The Middle East
build-up to larger war
Jonathan Power,
TFF Associate, August 18, 2006
Time
to rethhink the Balfour
Declaration
Perhaps it is time if not to re-write the Balfour
declaration, at least to re-direct it, back to Europe from
whence most Jewish settlers in Israel have come. For do we
really want to end up living like the besieged Israelis with
an angry Islam world? For surely it is going to get worse,
now that George W. Bush and Tony Blair have ratcheted up the
degree of confrontation with their counterproductive
policies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, the Lebanon, and the
central problem itself,
Israel/Palestine...
TFF
Open
Letter to Jan
Eliasson
President
of the UN General Assembly
Uniting
for Peace: Strengthen the General
Assembly
The board of the Transnational Foundation, TFF
sends an Open Letter that aims to stimulate a
wider discussion about the preconditions for a
genuine peace process also after UN Security
Council Resolution 1701.
Invigorate Uniting for Peace. Plan a
comprehensive all-inclusive OSCE-like conference
under UN leadership. Provide genuinely impartial
mediation and conflict-resolution. Implement
Security Council resolutions on the Middle East
as a Nuclear-Free Zone. Involve civil society,
push reconciliation. And give the UN a clear
mandate and adequate resources. This - not
bombs, extremism and hate - can help peace break
out in the region.
Already
supported by distinguished civil society
leaders, we hereby encourage like-minded
individuals and organizations to sign it. See
how after the Open Letter.
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Farhang
Jahanpour, TFF Associate, August 16, 2006
Iran's
nuclear threat. Exploring the
politics
A thorough background to the present crisis, published by
TFF's partner, the Oxford Research Group, ORG. Farhang
Jahanpour explores the rhetoric of aggression developing
between Iran and the USA and Israel, and asks if war is
really inevitable? Published in June but even more relevant
now with the Lebanon War as a possible prelude to the
bombing of Iran. Remember to return to TFF when you've read
it and see other
works by this eminent TFF
Associate!
Farhang
Jahanpour, August 16, 2006
Nobel
Laureate Shirin Ebadi in danger of
arrest
Ebadi's human rights center has been declared illegal by the
Iranian government. After having written an article on the
unfair treatment of women in Iran (Iran
Awakening?), I
received an email message from a supporter of the Iranian
regime, arguing that at a time when Iran is under serious
threat of attack and invasion it is untimely to raise issues
about human rights and freedom in Iran. Indeed, the reverse
is the case. The persecution of an internationally respected
Nobel Prize laureate and human rights lawyer is a clear
example of the Iranian regime shooting itself in the foot.
TFF PressInfo
241, August 15, 2006
Assessing
the United Nations after the Lebanon War
2006
The UN has become in these situations, sadly, more of a
geopolitical instrument than an instrument for the
enforcement of international law. This regression betrays
the vision that the guided the architects of the UN back in
1945, chief among whom were American diplomats. It is today
incapable of protecting any state that is the victim of an
aggressive war initiated by the United States or its close
allies.
Sad as it is, this assessment should not lead to a cynical
dismissal of the Organization. We need the UN - and there
are three ways in which we can help it be what it was meant
to be. By Richard Falk.
Seymour M. Hersh,
The New Yorker, August 13, 2006
Watching
Lebanon. Washington's interests in Israel's
war
"President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney were
convinced, current and former intelligence and diplomatic
officials told me, that a successful Israeli Air Force
bombing campaign against Hezbollah's heavily fortified
underground-missile and command-and-control complexes in
Lebanon could ease Israel's security concerns and also serve
as a prelude to a potential American preëmptive attack
to destroy Iran's nuclear installations, some of which are
also buried deep underground."
Hersh has done it - again!
The
UN Security Council Resolution, August 11-12,
2006
This will hardly bring peace to the region, predicts TFF's
Jan Oberg.
Michel
Chossudovsky, TFF Associate, August 13, 2006
UN
Resolution fails to acknowledge that Israel has launched a
war against Lebanon
Transcript of Resolution 1701: the word "war" is not
mentioned.
Chossudovsky's analysis is a must-read in a situation where
most media - and Western governments - seem to believe that
this resolution will lead to peace. Or want us to believe it
will. The truth is that the Resoltuion itself is a blatant
violation of the UN Charter.
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Jerusalem: A
Painting Toward
Peace
© Ellen Frank Illumination Arts Foundation
2006
Ellen
Frank, TFF Associate, August 12, 2006
The
"Cities of Peace" series of paintings by Ellen
Frank
Ellen Frank is TFF's first artist Associate. We
are proud to introduce her works which build
bridges between art and peace. Cities of Peace
offer paintings of Baghdad, Jerusalem, Kabul,
Lhasa and other cities. This page also contains
links to Ellen Frank's fascinating homepage.
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Francis A. Boyle,
TFF Associate, August 12, 2006
The
Middle East Agenda: Oil, Dollar Hegemony &
Islam
Public lecture at the Perdana Global Peace Forum 2006.
Bringing together a macro perspective in time and space and
an indirect background to the events in Lebanon. From
Information Clearing House.
NEW BOOK -
Evelin Lindner, TFF Associate, August 11, 2006
Making
Enemies - Humiliation and International
Conflict
Pathbreaking book on one of the most fundamental - but sadly
overlooked - aspects of all conflicts. See all you need here
to order it.
Civil resistance
in Lebanon, August 10, 2006
Civilian
Resistance: Call For Action & Solidarity For
Lebanon
"We, the people of Lebanon, call upon the local and
international community to join a campaign of civil
resistance to Israel's war against our country and our
people. We declare Lebanon an open country for civil
resistance."
Robert Fisk, The
Independent, August 5, 2006
A
terrible thought occurs to me - that there will be another
9/11
Is it to be like this every day? How many civilians can you
make homeless before you start a revolution? And what is
next? Are the Israelis to bomb the centre of Beirut? The
Corniche? Is this why all the foreign warships came and took
their citizens away, to make Beirut safe to
destroy?
Johan Galtung,
TFF Associate, August 4, 2006
The
Middle East and the EU as a solution
model
There are three building blocks - and not at all
unrealistic. There are moderate and legitimate demands and
extremist demands; the latter must be substituted on all
sides. But most important: there is a model for a
sustainable solution: that of the European Community or
Union. Thus, we need a new comprehensive approach beyond
today's rather naive proposals. The road to security for all
goes through peace!
Jonathan Power,
TFF Associate, August 3, 2006
Don't
at this stage send the UN to
Lebanon
It all comes back to Palestine. As long as Israel pushes on
with its policy of widening its tenure of the West Bank, no
Shiite or Sunni is in the mood to compromise. The stakes
have never been higher. A full-scale war in the region is
now a distinct possibility.
It would be the height
of folly and irresponsibility for the UN to widen its
peacekeeping responsibilities in the Lebanon at this stage.
Its soldiers would be put at terrifying risk, and for
what?
Michel
Chossudovsky, TFF Associate, August 1, 2006
The
war on Lebanon and the battle for
oil
Is there a relationship between the bombing of Lebanon and
the inauguration of the world's largest strategic pipeline,
which will channel more than a million barrels of oil a day
to Western markets? The author thinks so: "Ultimately, this
design is intended to weaken Russia's role in Central
Asia and cut off China from Central Asian oil
resources. It is also intended to isolate Iran.
Meanwhile, Israel has emerged as a new powerful player in
the global energy market."
Read this fascinatingly different perspective on
Israel-Turkey-US energy co-operation and see a series of
other articles by this TFF Associate on the connections
between energy politics and the present drama.
Anup Shah, Global
Issues, August 1,2006
Crisis
in Lebanon
A superb link collection to the present crisis with easy
access to yet other link collections to the rest of the
Middle East. Go there!
Richard Falk,
July 25, 2006
Lurching
toward regional war in the Middle
East
Israeli moves toward all out war in Gaza and Lebanon seem
linked to wider dangers of a regional war with severe global
consequences.
I fear that what we are witnessing is an extremely risky set
of moves to shift the joint Israeli/American regional game
plan in an overtly military direction. Neither the UN, world
public opinion, nor regional opposition seem to have the
will or capacity to halt this slide toward regional war.
We can only hope that prudence somehow mysteriously remains
a restraining force, at least in Washington. Already there
are signs of blowback, with Hizbollah emerging as the
political winner, with Iran not far behind, given the degree
to which a central cleavage in the Middle East is now
shaping up as a contest between Iranian-led Shi'ias and
Saudi-led Sunnis.
Richard Falk, TFF
Associate, July 25, 2006
Israel's
war on Gaza
In a shocking display of disregard for the restraints of
international law and morality, Israel has been resorting to
a massive, flagrant, and cruel display of collective
punishment inflicted on the essentially helpless and captive
1.2 million population of Gaza.
Almost as shocking has been the silence of the world
community in the face of these criminal violations of the
Geneva Conventions.
The truth about the Middle East is the reverse of what we
are being told...
Robert Fisk,
SeattlePost-Intelligencer (Washington), July 23, 2006
The
empire leaves Beirut to
burn
A deeply personal and moving account of the historical and
contemporary suffering of the city the author has lived in
and loved for 30 years.
Burundi

A face of hope and joy,
Burundi © Jan Oberg 2006
Visit
Burundi Forum, learn about the country's remarkable peace
process
and
TFF's work to establish a peace education centre there with
13 NGOs
See
what Burundi is like here
Peace by peaceful
means - Nonviolence
Kamran Mofid, TFF
Associate, August 13, 2006
Journal
of Globalization for the Common
Good
Inaugural issue of a new journal on the macro trends of our
time, including the Kenya Declaration 2005 and the Hawaii
Statement 2006.
M. K. Gandhi in
"Satyagraha in South Africa" - June 30, 2006
Satyagraha
turns 80 on September 11,
2006
This is the most important story about September the 11th.
On that day the idea of Truth Force, of Love and Nonviolent
Action - "peace by peaceful means" in the UN Charter was
born. Read Gandhi's own account of the event and how the
term came into being.
Troops Home Fast,
June 30, 2006
Gandhi
as a basis for a fast aimed at bringing the soldiers home
from Iraq
On July 3, 2006 starts a fast in front of the White House
led by, a.o. Cindy Sheehan and Daniel Elsberg. It's based on
Gandhi 's philosophy. It's a truly remarkable moral action
as well as one more evidence of the emerging revival of
Gandhi and other nonviolent traditions.
Vivek Pinto, June
28, 2006 - The Hindu, India
The
religion of humanity
Can religion be a source of positive values in political
life, rather than a convenient weapon for mobilising the
passions of the mob? "For me, every, the tiniest, activity
is governed by what I consider to be my religion." Most of
Gandhi's political campaigns were planned at his ashrams in
days of solitude, prayer, fasting, self-examination, and
rigorous self-control.
The human
dimensions of conflict and peace
NEW BOOK -
Evelin Lindner, TFF Associate, August 11, 2006
Making
Enemies - Humiliation and International
Conflict
Pathbreaking book on one of the most fundamental - but sadly
overlooked - aspects of all conflicts. See all you need here
to order it.
Evelin Lindner,
Ralph Summy and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, June 26, 2006
Humiliation
and History in Global Perspective - Special issue of "Social
Alternatives," Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter,
2006
Progress can be made in preventing, managing or resolving
so-called intractable conflicts if the roots of the problem
are unearthed. While the global history of humiliation that
unfolds in the following pages makes for depressing reading
in one sense, in another it provides the framework for
understanding how to transform such events into peaceful
outcomes.
Evelin Lindner,
TFF Associate, June 22, 2006
How
becoming a global citizen can have a healing
effect
The question of "home" is profoundly relevant for the
inhabitants of planet Earth. It is relevant for the identity
of each citizen and for the solution of conflicts around the
world. Do we wish to build a world of domination/submission,
where a few have luxurious homes and the rest has virtually
nothing? Do we envisage a world of separate nations (with
"enemy nations" endangering our homes)? How should local and
global aspects of identity be combined? What should we
reply, when we are asked, "Where are you from?" A personal
reflection on how life can be shaped to fit a larger
reality.

Flying
over Greenland
© Jan Oberg 2005
Gitte Arvegaard
& Jan Oberg
New
photo series "Greenland and Nuuk
2005"
Well over 100 images from Nuuk and of the stunning beauty of
Greenland's nature: The light, the icebergs, the sun-set,
the mountains. See what it is like to fly over Greeland.
Experience city life in Nuuk, the capital. Or meditate over
the atmosphere. It's like nothing else you've ever seen.
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browsing
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Ex-Yugoslavia -
Kosovo
Aleksandar Mitic,
TFF Associate, August 12, 2006
Kosovo
2006: The Making of a
Compromise
A brand new CD on a) Kosovo Yesterday. A Disputed Land; b)
Kosovo Today. UNMIK Titanik and c) Kosovo Tomorrow. The
Making of a Compromise. If you want to inform yourself about
the main story developing in European affairs this autumn -
the future of Serbia and Kosovo - this is where you should
begin. At Cafe
Babel you find the
first introduction. And here more about Mitic.
Biljana
Vankovska, TFF Associate, June 26, 2006
The
ageing EU Lady's hormonal problems: Human Security for
chameleons
An impassioned discussion of the EU (Venus) and US (Mars),
the militarization fo the EU disguised as 'human security'
and what could be in it - if anything - for Macedonia and
other Balkans countries. Since governments can't and won't,
we better create human security ourselves, warns the author.
Aleksandar Mitic,
TFF Associate, June 26, 2006
End
Balkanization now!
About independence for Montenegro and, perhaps, Kosovo.
Mitic argues that this can be dangerous for the region as
well as stimulate separatism elsewhere. Why is there so
little interest in the media... "Can there be any more
"taboos" if there are no more principles?" - he asks.
Burundi
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TFF Amahoro (Peace)
Coalition in Burundi, December 6, 2005
Appeal
for an Open Center for Peace and Reconciliation
!
Twelve of the best Burundian NGOs - youth, women,
teachers, media, scholars, former militaries, etc -
have joined forces to set up the first ever
learning center in support of one of the world's
most promising - but internationally unknown -
peace processes.
This is your 2006 people-to-people peace project.
It's a TFF-initiated project. Do something positive
today: read, spread the message and donate! Even
the smallest support will make a huge difference
for these 7 million people!.
TFF Feature
Collection
Burundi
- Isn't it time we rewarded this country for its
peace process?
Burundi is another name for one of the world's most
impressive and promising peace processes. A good
story. But it doesn't receive a fraction of the
small humanitarian aid it needs; more and more
Burundian are starving - as can be seen from some
of the news articles below. News and articles from
November 7 - December 31, 2005.
TFF
Burundi Forum
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visionairies
Middle East -
Iran
Seymour M. Hersh,
The New Yorker, August 13, 2006
Watching
Lebanon. Washington's interests in Israel's
war
"President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney were
convinced, current and former intelligence and diplomatic
officials told me, that a successful Israeli Air Force
bombing campaign against Hezbollah's heavily fortified
underground-missile and command-and-control complexes in
Lebanon could ease Israel's security concerns and also serve
as a prelude to a potential American preëmptive attack
to destroy Iran's nuclear installations, some of which are
also buried deep underground."
Hersh has done it - again!
Farhang
Jahanpour, TFF Associate, June 28, 2006
Iran
Awakening?
Review of Shirin Ebadi's memoirs with the same title. The
author places it in the larger context of the Iranian
women's situation and movement and sees it in the
perspective the country's vibrant cultural life. Says
Jahanpour, "In Iran, books, plays, films and poems have had
an impact on society that goes beyond anything one is
accustomed to in the West." Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4,
September 18-22.
Johan Galtung,
TFF Associate, June 21, 2006
USA
& UK versus Iran: A Transcend
perspective
Diagnosis, prognosis and therapy: "The keys to acceptable
and sustainable ways out of this conflict are in the
subtexts, not in the texts. Why is the obvious road toward a
solution not even discussed?
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TFF Associate
Jonathan Power's weekly column
August 18,
2006
Time
to rethhink the Balfour
Declaration
Perhaps it is time if not to re-write the Balfour
declaration, at least to re-direct it, back to Europe from
whence most Jewish settlers in Israel have come. For do we
really want to end up living like the besieged Israelis with
an angry Islam world? For surely it is going to get worse,
now that George W. Bush and Tony Blair have ratcheted up the
degree of confrontation with their counterproductive
policies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, the Lebanon, and the
central problem itself,
Israel/Palestine...
August 9,
2006
Castro's
achievements should be allowed to live
on
Washington will make a grievous error if it believes it can
bag a quick success by taking advantage of Fidel's illness.
Change has to come to Cuba. But the Cubans who live on Cuban
soil must be allowed to do it on their own if bloodshed and
chaos are to be avoided and the good and useful things that
Castro has achieved are not to be destroyed.
August 3,
2006
Don't
at this stage send the UN to
Lebanon
It all comes back to Palestine. As long as Israel pushes on
with its policy of widening its tenure of the West Bank, no
Shiite or Sunni is in the mood to compromise. The stakes
have never been higher. A full-scale war in the region is
now a distinct possibility.
It would be the height
of folly and irresponsibility for the UN to widen its
peacekeeping responsibilities in the Lebanon at this stage.
Its soldiers would be put at terrifying risk, and for
what?
More
columns by Jonathan Power here

TFF's monkey:
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Oh yeah, Iran is now the
biggest threat to world peace
!
Ja ikke sandt - Iran er nu den
største trussel mod verdensfreden
!
På
nordiska
språk
TFF Associeredes
artikler
Per Gahrton, TFF
Associerat, 16 augusti, 2006
Arabisk
press efter Libanon-kriget
En mycket informativ
genomgång av olika medier i regionen: Det känns
befriande att läsa en artikel i al-Hayat som
frågar: Vem är det som dödar araber och
muslimer - och judar? Svar: De kristna i väst. Och
så har det varit i tusen år minst, heter det,
med början i korstågen. Olmert och Netanyahu,
Nasrallah och Mubarak, Hamas-ledarna, de iranska mullorna
och de saudiska prinsarna, arm i arm mot den gemensamma
fienden i USA och EU! Nog är det en uppfriskande tanke.
Nog skulle det skapa ett verkligt nytt Mellanöstern i
alla fall!
Martin
Smedjeback, TFF Associerat, August 13, 2006
Vadå
vända andra kinden
till?
Lyssna på Smedjebacks föredrag om Jesus, Martin
Luther King och ickevåldet (mp3 fil).
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.
Johan Galtung,
TFF Associeret, 26. juni 2006
Hva
gør Norge i
Afghanistan?
Fem gode punkter ved en mæglingssession i Peshawar
kontrasteret af en forudsigelse: "Stabilitet kan man trygt
se bort fra. At den hundre år gamle krigen mellom det
angloamerikansk-kristne og det arabisk-islamske skal stilne
av kan man også trygt se bort fra, unntatt overfor
Spania med den eneste vestlige politiker med klarsyn,
Zapatero. Heroinen vil fortsatt nå frem til vestens
gater. Pengene vil fortsatt flyte inn i de korruptes
lommer..."
Martin
Smedjeback, 26:e juni 2006
Ickevåldsstrategi
efterfrågas i
Columbia
I Colombia kan du gå in på ett kontor, betala en
avgift och tala om vem du vill ha mördad. Livet är
billigt här. Kristna Fredsrörelsen har samarbetat
i fl era år med organisationen Justapaz, vars namn
betyder "rättvis fred" och drivs av mennonitkyrkan i
Colombia. I ett gemensamt projekt organiserar vi
ickevåldsutbildningar för kyrkligt aktiva.
Yusra Moshtat,
23:e juni, 2006
Mitt
Irak är i spillror
Mitt hemland Irak var en välfärdsstat med gratis
sjukvård och utbildning. Om vi höll tyst kunde vi
leva våra liv i fred. Visst ville vi ha demokrati, men
inte till vilket pris som helst, skriver
miljöinspektör Yusra Moshtat, Göteborg, i en
kritisk analys av ockupationsmaktens framfart.
Jørgen
Johansen, TFF:s styrelse, i Fredstidningen Pax, 22 juni
2006
"Jag
tror på humor och
olydnad!"
Att få till en intervju med den ständigt resande
Jørgen Johansen, 50 år, är svårare
än att få intervjua en minister. Han har aldrig
tagit någon paus i sitt engagemang för fred och
miljö och har arbetat med fredsfrågor sedan
70-talet i hela världen.
Per Gahrton, TFF
rådgivare, 22:e juni 2006
Idioti
eller islamofobi. Om ny statlig
islampolitik
Nu tänker riksdagen fatta beslut om "relationerna
mellan väst och den muslimska världen". Redan
beteckningarna i utrikesutskottets skrivning, "väst"
(geografi) kontra "den muslimska världen" (religion),
antyder något skumt. Man refererar till Edward Saids
kritik av västlig orientalism, men levererar sedan ett
skolexempel på den. (Aftonbladet 17 mars 2006).
Islamologen,
professor Jan Hjärpe är ny TFF rådgiver.
Läs om honom här.
Gunnar Westberg,
TFF-rådgivare, 29.e april, 2006
Atombomber
mot Iran?
Presidenten för Internationella Läkare Mot
Kärnvapen, IPPNW, använder sina erfarenheter
inför Irak-kriget. Kommer Iran att provocera
amerikanska "intressen" i Irak? Kommer amerikanerna att tro
på "svampmolnet över Manhattan"?
Föreställer vi oss vilka oerhörda
konsekvenser kärnvapenanvändning i området
skulle få också långt utanför Iran?
Burundi
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TFF Feature Collection, December 6, 2005
Burundi
- Isn't it time we rewarded this country for its
peace process?
Burundi is another name for one of the world's most
impressive and promising peace processes. A good
story. But it doesn't receive a fraction of the
small humanitarian aid it needs; more and more
Burundian are starving - as can be seen from some
of the news articles below. News and articles from
November 7 - December 31, 2005.
Patrik
Stålgren i Göteborgs-Posten
Vänd
inte ryggen åt Burundis
folk
Med en ny president öppnas en möjlighet
att bryta våldsspiralen i Burundi, skriver
Patrik Stålgren.
TFF
Forum Samling -
Burundi
Analyser, debatartikler, TFFs Burundi Forum, alt om
stiftelsens virksomhed i Burundi, historier om
fredshåb - og meget mere...
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Projekter og
bøger på nordiske sprog
Christina
Spännar, projektledare och TFF-stiftare
"Rapport
från ett år i Eslöv
Integration - vad hindrar och vad befrämjar?" (pdf 504
KB)
Inledning, bakgrund och sammanhang, verksamheter som
deltagit, projektets genomförande, möjligheter som
befrämjar integration, konkreta forslag, förslag
till modell, valda slutsatser samt efterord. Bilagor,
litteratur och hemsidor. Ett projekt med EU-stöd. 104
sidor, pdf-format, 504 KB - tar lite tid att ladda ned. Se
också TFF
Eslöv Forum.
Christina
Spännar, projektledare och TFF-stiftare
"Med
rötter i fjärran land. Tjugo berättelser"
(pdf 4,9 MB)
Det är en mödosam väg att vandra innan man
känner sig någorlunda hemma i främmande
land. Dessa personer ifrån Palestina, det forna
Jugoslavien, olika länder i Mellersta Östern,
Burundi, Ungern, Turkiet, det forna Sovietunionen och
Latinamerika vittnar här om steg på denna
väg. Illustrerad med författarens egna foton
från olika länder. Ett projekt med EU-stöd.
96 sidor, pdf-format, 4,9 MB, tar därför tid att
ladda ned. Se också TFF
Eslöv Forum.
TFF:s Eslöv
Forum
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 projekt. Eslöv Forum
kommer att byggas ut efterhand. Följ med!
Klaus Kold, TFF
Associeret
Krigen
er slut - konflikterne
fortsætter
Krigen er slut - konflikterne fortsætter giver et dybt
indblik i den militære kulturs praktiske hverdag, som
den udfolder sig under Forsvarets opera tioner.
Læseren føres ind i den militære kultur,
hvor man også er med, når soldaterne ikke laver
noget, eller når det til gengæld går
ufattelig hurtigt. Hvad er det, der sker med unge danske
soldater, når de sidder i timevis i checkpoints, eller
når der pludselig lyder en alarmmelding? Hvad betyder
det for dem at være i denne organisation med disse nye
opgaver?
Jan Øbergs
bog om EU
Fremmer
EU freden?
Jan Øberg's "Fremmer EU freden - Analyse, kritik og
alternativer" udkom 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! Endvidere 25 forslag til
hvorledes EU skulle kunne blive en freds-union. Se bogens
indhold og konklusioner og hvordan du downloader
den.
Jan
Øberg
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.
Rolf Kuschel,
Faezeh Zand Jan Øberg
Ondskabens
Psykologi Socialpsykologiske essays
Undervisningsmateriale
på dansk om verden, EU og USA
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
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- 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.
Nyheder
om TFF og TFF-Associeredes bøger
Fra
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nu
Årsrapport
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Få
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