Galtung Lecture

Professor Johan Galtung, Professor of Peace Studies at the University of
Hawaii, is giving a public lecture: "Europe 1989: The Role of Peace Research
and the Peace Movement", to be held in Mayne Hall, The University of
Queensland, St Lucia on Wednesday, 10 July 1991, at 8.00 p.m.

The Lecturer
Professor Galtung is one of the world's most famous and frequently cited
contemporary social scientists, researching a formidable array of issues and
themes, including the introduction of such provocative concepts as
'structural violence' and 'the great chain of nonviolence'.

Since the 1980s he has focused on alternative defence (non-offensive
defence), social cosmologies, cultural violence, environmental issues and
economic theory.  More and more, he has adopted a holistic perspective on
world affairs.

The Lecture
"Nobody could have predicted this!", was the unanimous expression by all
Western leaders, Autumn 1989, when the Berlin Wall started crumbling and then
fell down.  In the East politicians were not surprised; they knew something
about people's power.  So did people in the peace movement and in the peace
research movement.  Of course, there will never be any consensus about
exactly what happened and why.  But the case that this was a tremendous
success for the dissident movement, the peace movement, nonviolence, certain
key peace research ideas, and above all for people's diplomacy in general -
and as exercised by women in particular - can and will be made.

Members of the public are welcome to attend this free lecture.  Ample
convenient free parking is available.


Master Classes

Professor Johan Galtung and Dr. Fumiko Nishimura will be presenting four
series of free master classes on nonviolence, peace, war, conflict resolution
and world politics at the University of Queensland, from July 1 to August 8,
1991.

The four series are: Violence and Peace; Conflict and Conflict Processing;
World Politics of Peace and War; US - Japan Relations and Australia.  Each
series consists of one two-hour class per week.  For further information
contact:
Ralph Summy, phone (07) 365 2324, or StJohn Kettle, phone (07) 899 2243.


WRI 20th Triennial Conference

at La Marlagne, Belgium,
28 July - 1 August 1991
For details:
Contact Peter D. Jones, 97 Novar St, Yarralumla, ACT 2600, Phone (06) 277
3790 (work), Fax (06) 277 3779 or War Resisters' International, 55 Dawes St.,
London SE17 1EL, England.