Johan Galtung
✶October 24, 1930
†February 17, 2024
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†February 17, 2024
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Johan Vincent Galtung was a Norwegian sociologist and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. He was the main founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 1959 and was its first director until 1970. He also established the Journal of Peace Research in 1964.
Norwegian sociologist and peace scholar
Biography from the article Johan Galtung on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.