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Johan Galtung

1930 - 2024

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Johan Vincent Galtung (24 October 1930 – 17 February 2024) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johan Galtung has received more than 534,656 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Johan Galtung is the 4th most popular political scientist (up from 11th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Norway (up from 46th in 2019) and the most popular Norwegian Political Scientist.

Johan Galtung is most famous for his "Violence Triangle" theory. This theory states that there are three components to violence: the perpetrator, the victim, and the bystander.

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Johan Galtung ranks 4 out of 46. Before him are Samuel P. Huntington, Étienne de La Boétie, and Francis Fukuyama. After him are Christian Lous Lange, Georg Jellinek, Harold Lasswell, Hans Morgenthau, Ralf Dahrendorf, Aleksandr Dugin, Benedict Anderson, and Gene Sharp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Johan Galtung ranks 32. Before him are Maximilian Schell, Carlos Menem, Claude Chabrol, Niki de Saint Phalle, Silvana Mangano, and Harold Pinter. After him are Immanuel Wallerstein, Hugh Everett III, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Zhores Alferov, Ali al-Sistani, and George E. Smith. Among people deceased in 2024, Johan Galtung ranks 26. Before him are Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Françoise Hardy, Sebastián Piñera, Alexei Navalny, Luigi Riva, and Akira Toriyama. After him are Niklaus Wirth, Frank Farian, Carl Weathers, Quincy Jones, Roger Guillemin, and Kurt Hamrin.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Johan Galtung ranks 32 out of 1,039. Before him are Ivar Aasen (1813), Ingólfr Arnarson (850), Eric Bloodaxe (885), Ludvig Holberg (1684), Ragnar Frisch (1895), and Jostein Gaarder (1952). After him are Harald Hardrada (1015), Odd Hassel (1897), Christian Lous Lange (1869), Peder Severin Krøyer (1851), Magnus IV of Sweden (1316), and Haakon the Good (918).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In Norway

Among political scientists born in Norway, Johan Galtung ranks 1. After him are Christian Lous Lange (1869).

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