By Jan Oberg, TFF director and Jorgen Johansen, TFF associate Originally published by TFF, September 25, 2001 Constructive thoughts two weeks after September 11 Can something positive come out of the terrible events in New York and Washington on September 11? Can the…
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Two weeks after September 11
Tagged with: Jan Øberg, Richard Falk, September 11, terrorism, TFF
Posted in In English, Political comment and analysis
Posted in In English, Political comment and analysis
Conscientious Objection: Legal Rights
Originally published in International Encyclopedia of Peace xxx Conscientious Objection (CO) is to refuse participation in a system of obligatory service when one is conscientiously opposed to the service. In most cases the objector refuses to do military service, but individuals may…
Tagged with: Conscientious Objection
Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Political comment and analysis
Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Political comment and analysis
Deterrent Nonviolence
Originally published in xxx The best-prepared and most successful large-scale civil disobedience action in Scandinavian history never took place. In the end the government had to resign. In 1996 the Norwegian Parliament decided to build two large power stations…
Tagged with: civil disobedience, FAG, Fellesaksjonen mot Gasskraftverk, Naturkraft, Norway
Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Political comment and analysis
Posted in In English, Nonviolence, Political comment and analysis
Bombning av Iran är farligt för alla
Originally published in xxx Det har spekulerats i om USA kommer att bomba Iran innan president Bush avgår nästa år. Senast förra veckan publicerade The Times en läcka från Pentagon om en plan för en intensiv tre dagars bombning av…
Avsporing av debatten
Originally published in xxx Norge er et lite land i Europas utkant. Rikt, pen natur, stort vakkert selvbilde og med en egenprodusert internasjonal ego-image som oser av propaganda. Landet har i alle år lidd av en kronisk mangel på…
Tagged with: Afghanistan, Irak, Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norge
Posted in På norsk, Political comment and analysis
Posted in På norsk, Political comment and analysis
Arven etter Alfred
Intervju med Jørgen Johansen i xxxx den xxxx For første gang i Nobelhistorien blir fredsprisen i år gitt til en muslimsk kvinne. Av tidligere vinnere er imidlertid hele ni av ti vestlige menn. Flere andre priser er etter hvert opprettet…
A UN mandate does not make war on Iraq right!
December 28. 2002 By Jorgen Johansen, TFF Associate, Director of the Centre for Peace Studies at Tromsø, University, Norway, and Jan Oberg, TFF director. A UN mandate does not turn war into peace Governments, editors, commentators and even supporters of the…
Tagged with: George W. Bush, Iraq, Jan Øberg, September 11, TFF, UN
Posted in In English, Political comment and analysis
Posted in In English, Political comment and analysis
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Criminalising ”the others”
Originally published in xxx This chapter will present the criminalisation of opponents by making ordinary political actions illegal and labelling them ”terrorism” in Israel. Three examples will be used to illustrate this new form of criminalising opponents; two forms of…
Posted in Political comment and analysis