Talk:Johan Galtung

The contents of Violence Peace and Peace Research was merged into Johan Galtung on 29 April 2023. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

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Two "articles" in the ref list

There are two "articles" in the reference list that are not credible sources. These are:

The Peace Racket by Bruce Bawer, City Journal, Summer 2007. and Barbarians within the gate by Barbara Kay, National Post, February 18, 2009.

Someone is using right-wing nut rant, as a credible source for Galtung's quotes. Create a criticism section and put them there, clearly stating that those artivles are just Barbara Kay's and Bruce Bawer's opinion article and that what they claim are not facts. So far, there is no credible reference, like a Galtung article, that clearly shows that the man has those views. They are just right-wing nut point of views, nothing else. Unfortunately, the person that reads the wikipedia article may take it for truth. Please, correct it.

I've added an Unreliable Source tag to the articles in question. Deepred6502 (talk) 13:14, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

I propose merging Violence Peace and Peace Research into Johan Galtung. The content in the former (which barely meets notability and is an extraordinarily long essay) can easily be explained in a shortened version in the latter without any weighting problems. Thenightaway (talk) 18:02, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

support merge Joyous! | Talk 23:49, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced claims about circumstances of death

Hello Wikipedians,

Johan Galtung passed away in February last year. It seems that in the interim, someone has edited the 'Background' section to suggest that he died in suspicious circumstances, that he did not have pneumonia and was forced to take morphine at his hospice. These paragraphs seem strongly opinionated and come with no citations whatsoever. I recommend a warning be placed that such comments are unsourced and further citation is needed. DrMox (talk) 14:27, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The original reference to Galtung's conflict triangle

In the section "Conflict Triangle", it says: "In Galtung's 1969 paper, "Violence, Peace and Peace Research", he presents his theory of the Conflict Triangle." This is not true. The cited paper does not present the conflict triangle, it is only mentioned briefly in footnote 35. The first published presentation of the conflict triangle I have been able to find is in this publication: Galtung, J. (1969). Conflict As a Way of Life. In Freeman, H. (red.), Progress in Mental Health. Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Mental Health. London: J. & A. Churchill Ltd. In this article: Schmid, H. (1968). Peace research and politics. Journal of peace research, 5(3), 217-232, Schmid writes, in footnote 30, p 231: "The ’conflict triangle’ was presented by Galtung during a series of lectures at the PRIO in January 1968." 91.46.141.142 (talk) 08:55, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]