Memorial site for Johan Galtung 1930-2024

February 17, 2025

Johan Galtung died a tragic death today a year ago.

I have taken it upon myself to create a memorial site for one of the greatest social scientists of our time.

I have three motives for doing so: One, Johan Galtung was one of my mentors, a colleague, and a dear friend for over precisely 50 years and a TFF Associate since we started in 1986. That is the 80%.

The second is that Johan was forced to endure gross human rights violations by the Norwegian health and other authorities as well as by individuals in the last months of his life. So, too, was his daughter Irene, who was the only one who cared for him to the end. This human rights story – that Galtung wanted to become public – has been repressed by means that do not belong to a legal, democratic state. That’s 10%.

The third is that the Official Norway – and others – want his life work for true peace to be forgotten as soon as possible. He was too brilliantly critical of his own US/NATO-submissive country. He has not been shown a single honour – a Norwegian who, in his field, was as great as Norwegian author Henrik Ibsen and painter Edvard Munch were in their fields. The last 10%.

This memorial site offers a lot of information about Galtung and his life but it is still in its making. It also offers you an opportunity to write to/about him if you were among those who were influenced by having met him or worked with him. You’ll see how when you click on the site.

On it, you’ll also be able to see how you can support Dr Irene Galtung in her present and future legal struggles to achieve justice out of this – harrowing – case.