•Mathematics(how to think)•Sociology(what to think abt)•Founder of applied #PeaceResearch •For a quick tour d'horizon, see #QAjg
Mar 13, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
A strange climate, when social scientists & authors of all backgrounds, who rightfully detest war, must fear for their reputation & standing for speaking critically against the profiteers of war & for speaking constructively about avenues to the #peaceSjg: negative & positive.
It is one thing to hate war & it is another thing altogether to love & want peace [be it #negativepeacejg (mutually accepted ceasefire, cessation of hostilities & anger management) or #positivepeacejg (cooperative project to reinstate mutually beneficial resource allocation)].
Mar 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Blowing up Nordstream just so happens to effectively
Keep the Americans In.
Keep the Russians Out.
Keep Germany Down.
How opportunely coincidental.
May 8, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Dear Journalism,
stop making excuses for @NATO countries. From Baker to Kissinger via Kennan et al. it was known far & wide NOT to expand too far eastwards. Or else! There is plenty of blame to go around @ causes & mistakes preceding #UkraineRussiaWar
1of12: #Contextomy = Ignoring chronic conflict-syndromes preceding outbreaks of violence + focusing on violence as "irrational" & "ex nihilo" + showing it's endemic without exposing its underlying, unresolved contradictions&polarizations.
2/.
12 Ways Media Misreport Violence
2of12: #Dualismjg: reducing the number of parties in a conflict to 2, when more stakeholders are involved upward&downward. Media focus on scandals & tragedy often ignores covert & overt "external" foreign governments & transnational companies.
Apr 15, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
1/. Why do you think #peacestudies exist to prevent wars? War, declared or not, is #stateterrorism by people in uniform, is the ultimate crime, is the sumum malum: The culmination & consecration of the #violencesjg. The surprise about Bucha et al. is for the naïve. This is war.
2/. There is no escaping the horrors of warfare. In any war. Rules, standards & legal consequences of jus ad bellum & in bello notwithstanding, war is an illegitimate means that poisons whatever ends it pursues. Pay attention to its implication here: war, INCLUDING defensive war,
Sep 18, 2021 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
1/13 Happy to announce that we've finished designing an all new online masterclass "THE ART OF PEACE" with my close colleague & good friend @Irenologist at the Galtung-Institut. Luckily I don't have to do it all by myself. I'll be available for deep Q&As. Below are our 12 themes:
1/12: Basic Needs (see #bhnjg) & the question of legitimacy: A Life centred approach to Politics
Aug 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What do I mean by art in the "art of peace" & creativity?
Art refers to reacting spontaneously to spontaneity. Creativity refers to calling into reality something new, that wasnt there before. Intuition is of the essence. Prepare for the unpreparable. Expect the unexpected.
What happens to our professionalism? Standardization in our field. It is the framing within which we move creatively. But to stick to our routines as peace professionals is to stick to the ANSWERS we have found so far. But more important are the QUESTIONS we are yet to answer.
Aug 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
@rkelly123@LukeshRoberts 1) Both And all the way down indeed. One of my key books is „Peace by Peaceful means“. The title (Pure Gandhi btw.) from a praxeological p.o.v, stipulates that THIS type of goal is obtained & contained in its means. Ex negativo, see: „bombing for peace is like f*g for virginity“
@rkelly123@LukeshRoberts 2) Assuming that Violence fundamentally rests on:
🟠A) attitudinal & normative dispositions legitimizing it,
🟢B) behavioral expressions negating the 4 basic human needs #BHNjg of others &
🟣C) contradictions between autotelic & heterotelic goals within or between actors;
Jun 24, 2020 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
USA: In numerous horrendous arrest videos that are indistinguishable from assault videos with black victims at the hands of Policemen & women, one thing is becomes clear: Crossing paths with police in the USA while black is the closest thing to an extrajudicial death sentence.
To all currently engaged in fixing this unacceptable state of affairs in the USA, I say this: you will achieve nothing durable or deep unless you deconstruct & redefine the very political ethos at the heart of that country’s perception of itself, or else;
Mar 11, 2019 • 21 tweets • 18 min read
@philippefroguel@oslouniversity@haaretzcom Eh ben dites donc. Écoutez, j’ai visité l’Israel 39 fois depuis 1960. J’ai espoir qu’un jour l’Israel dont rêvaient Buber & Einstein fasse surface. Il y’a dans la vision de mon ami desormais mort Uri Avnery quelquechose de constructif. Israel doit dialoguer mieux. Pas plus.
@philippefroguel@oslouniversity@haaretzcom Il me semble que vous ne comprenez rien aux fondements de l’irénologie. Ce qui est dommage mais le choix est le vôtre de jeter ou non un regard dans ce domaine de la géopolitique. A ne pas confondre: Polémologie. Je vais ici faire un effort sincère d’élucidation de mon approche.
