{"id":2219,"date":"2012-10-15T07:43:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T05:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2014-08-02T17:18:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T15:18:36","slug":"galtung-in-nepali-times-if-you-want-peace-abolish-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/2012\/galtung-in-nepali-times-if-you-want-peace-abolish-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Galtung in Nepali Times: &#8220;If you want peace, abolish hunger&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Interview-Excerpt: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>&#8220;If you want peace, abolish hunger&#8221;<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Federica Riccadonna: You say different communities have varying abilities to overcome and transcend conflict which you call the &#8216;local potential of peace&#8217;. How do you assess the Nepali people&#8217;s potential for peace?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Johan Galtung: Nepalis have a capacity for negative peace. The 10-year-long conflict was a testament to their potential for excessive violence, while during the 18 days of Jana Andolan II in 2006, they toppled a 240-year-old monarchy without resorting to violence.<\/p>\n<p>Nepalis are specially good at &#8216;negative&#8217; forms of non-violence like civil disobedience, demonstrations, and non-cooperation, but they struggle when it comes to positive non-violence, like nation building and constructive<br \/>actions towards peace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nepalitimes.com\/issue\/2012\/10\/13\/Interview\/19705#.UHufw66sxdK\">Click here to read on<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nepalitimes.com\/issue\/2012\/10\/13\/Interview\/19705#.UHufw66sxdK\"> <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to read in Nepali Times:  If you want Peace abolish Hunger\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nepal.gif\"width=\"350\n\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foodforthought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galtung-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}