Johan Galtung, Lynch Lecturer and Bryant Wedge Fellow

Professor Johan Galtung was Bryant Wedge Fellow-in-Residence at ICAR in spring 1996. On March 20, 1996, he delivered the Ninth Annual Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Lecture on Conflict Resolution, "Global Projections of Deep-Rooted U.S. Pathologies." His lecture will be published this fall as ICAR's Occasional Paper 11 and is also available on video- and audiotape.

Professor Galtung, born in Oslo, Norway, is one of the founders of peace and conflict studies. He founded the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO) in 1950 and The Journal of Peace Research in 1964. The author of more than 50 books and numerous articles in the field of peace, development and social science theory, his latest book, Peace by Peaceful Means, was published this year by Sage Press.

Galtung is currently a professor on the faculty of the European Peace University in Austria and at the Universität Witten/ Herdecke. He holds the title of Honorary Professor at the Universidad de Alicante, the Freie Universität Berlin, Sichuan University, and the Universität of Witten/Herdecke. He also holds the title of Dr. Honoris Causa at the University of Tampere, the University of Cluj, Uppsala University, Soka University, and the Universität Osnabrück. He is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award (1987), the Norwegian Humanist Prize (1988), the Socrates Prize for Adult Education (1990), the Bajaj International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values (1993), and the Aloha International Award (1995).