Professor of Peace Studies, Dr. Johan Galtung

“While most media concerns itself with stories of power and privilege, Peace Writers is a small effort to rewrite news and current events by focusing on grassroots attempts to bring peace and justice to the world. It fits under the umbrella of an emerging field known as “peace journalism.”

From Transcend Media Service:

TRANSCEND International has four pillars: Action, Education/Training, Dissemination, Research. TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS fulfills the three first functions. It is a medium for TR members to present peace journalism-oriented views, news and analyses in written or video format. TMS is both a service to other media and a medium in its own right. You are most welcome to use all the material presented–no copyright, no fees–but attribution would be appreciated. TRANSCEND International is an experiment in promoting peace by peaceful means throughout the world. Traditionally, institutes have been centered around a building where the people who work together meet on a regular basis. Since many people who share common interests in helping transform conflicts nonviolently and creatively are geographically scattered and cannot usually be physically together, our solution is to create an electronic network of members. This, in addition, diminishes our carbon footprints and contributes to attenuate the global warming crisis. TRANSCEND does mediation and peace-building around the world, with Manuals, a Code of Conduct, and Perspectives with diagnosis, prognosis and therapy for conflicts (see: 50 Years-100 Peace & Conflict Perspectives, TRANSCEND University Press, 2008). Please visit http://www.transcend.org/tms/ for a large-scale project in the field.