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DESCRIPTION:Meet & Hear the founder of Peace & Conflict Resolution Studies,\nProfessor 
 Johan Galtung speaking on\n"Popular Uprising in the Middle East\n& the 
 Decline of Empire"\n\nJohan Galtung  is widely known as the pioneering 
 founder of the academic discipline of peace studies. He has served as a 
 professor for peace studies and peace research at the universities of Oslo, 
 Berlin, Belgrad, Paris and Hawaii, just to name a few, and has mediated in 
 about 50 conflicts between states and nations since 1957.\n\nBorn 1930 in 
 Oslo, Norway, Prof. Johan Galtung holds PhDs in mathematics and sociology. 
 He currently lectures in a Masters Course at the World Peace Academy 
 associated with the University of Basel and is director of the Transcend 
 Peace University, the world's first online Peace Studies University and a 
 global non-profit network Transcend International dedicated to high level 
 mediation and conflict resolution through nonviolent means and methods. 
 “Transcend International” connects about 400 experts active in concrete 
 peace and reconciliation work across the globe.\n\nProf. Galtung's latest 
 book is a provacative look at the US, its influence globally and its 
 future. Even the title is controversial: The Fall of the US Empire–And 
 Then What?: Successors, Regionalization or Globalization? US Fascism or US 
 Blossoming?\n\n\n Proceeds to benefit “IF” & the Resource Center for 
 Nonviolence\n\n*7:30 Reception & Presentation: $25-$100 suggested sliding 
 scale donation;  Couples $40-100 sliding scale\n(includes appetizers, wine 
 & nonalcoholic beverages)\n*8:00 Presentation only:  $10-$25 suggested 
 sliding scale donation\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/08/18671598.php
SUMMARY:Pioneer in Peace Studies Johan Galtung: Middle East Uprisings & the Decline of Empire
LOCATION:Zachary's, 819 Pacific Street, Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/08/18671598.php
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