[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 17532]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     IN HONOR OF DR. JOHAN GALTUNG

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 15, 2011

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Dr. Johan 
Galtung, who is being honored by the American Muslim Alliance 
Foundation with the Abdul Ghaffar Khan International Peace-Builder 
Award.
  In 1930, Dr. Galtung was born in the city of Oslo, Norway. He 
received his doctorates in mathematics in 1956 and in sociology the 
following year. In 1957, Dr. Galtung moved to New York and began 
teaching at Columbia University in the Sociology Department. He 
returned to Oslo in 1959 and founded the Peace Research Institute Oslo, 
where he would serve as director for the following decade. In 1969 he 
took a position as a professor of peace and conflict research at the 
University of Oslo. He has since taught at universities around the 
world and is currently teaching courses in the Human Science Department 
at Saybrook University.
  In 1993, Dr. Johan Galtung established the TRANSCEND Network for 
Conflict Transformation. TRANSCEND encompasses Transcend Peace 
University, Transcend Media Service, Transcend University Press, 
Transcend Peace Service, Transcend Research Institute, International 
Peace Institute and the Journal of Peace Research. Their mission is to 
bring about a more peaceful world by using action, education and 
training, dissemination and research to transform conflicts 
nonviolently, with empathy and creativity, for acceptable and 
sustainable outcomes.
  Dr. Galtung's contributions to international peace have earned him 
the Right Livelihood Award, Bajaj International Award for Promoting 
Gandhian Values, First Morton Deutsch Conflict Resolution Award, 
Norwegian Literary Prize Brage, Augsburg Golden Book of Peace, Eric Bye 
Memorial Prize, Corean Demilitarized Zone Peace Prize and in 1987, the 
Alternative Nobel Peace Prize.
  Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me in congratulating Dr. 
Johan Galtung as he receives the Abdul Ghaffar Khan International 
Peace-Builder Award from the American Muslim Alliance Foundation.

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