Quotes from Johan Galtung

Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity.

Every religion contains, in varying degrees, elements of the soft and the hard. For the sake of world peace, dialogue within religions and among them must strengthen the softer aspects.

Peace is something you make with your adversaries, not with your friends.

The killed are dead, the bereaved are traumatized. The trauma may be converted to hatred that may be converted into revenge addiction.

The main focus of the TRANSCEND method3 is not to merely identify who is guilty and punish those, the traditional legal approach, but to create an attractive new reality acceptable to all those involved.

Gandhian economic boycott, however, combined refusal to buy English textiles with the collection of funds for the merchants precisely not to confuse the key issue by threatening their livelihood.

that the time is always ripe, that the place is here and the time is now.

By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

Marshall took nonviolence a step further - beyond Gandhi.