Career[edit]
Upon receiving his mag. art. degree, Galtung moved to Columbia University, in New York City, where he taught for five semesters as an assistant professor in the department of sociology.[7] In 1959, Galtung returned to Oslo, where he founded the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). He was the institute's director until 1969.[9]
In 1964, Galtung led PRIO to establish the first academic journal devoted to Peace Studies: the Journal of Peace Research.[9] In the same year, he assisted in the founding of the International Peace Research Association.[10] In 1969, he left PRIO for a position as professor of peace and conflict research at the University of Oslo, a position he held until 1978.[9]
Galtung was the director general of the International University Centre in Dubrovnik and helped to found and lead the World Future Studies Federation.[11][12] He has held visiting positions at other universities, including Santiago, Chile, the United Nations University in Geneva, and at Columbia, Princeton and the University of Hawaii.[13] In 2014, he was appointed the first Tun Mahathir Professor of Global Peace at the International Islamic University Malaysia.[14]
Economist and fellow peace researcher Kenneth Boulding has said of Galtung that his "output is so large and so varied that it is hard to believe that it comes from a human".[15] He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[16]
In 1993, he co-founded TRANSCEND: A Peace Development Environment Network.[17][18] In 1987, he was given the Right Livelihood Award.
Johan Galtung
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Galtung has published more than a thousand articles and over a hundred books.[46]
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