Johan Galtung is a Norwegian sociologist, mathematician and the founder of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo in 1959. He is the author of a number of books including Pax Pacifica (Pluto, 2005), Searching for Peace (Pluto, 2000) and Transcend and Transform (Pluto, 2004). He is the holder of the Right Livelihood Award 1987 and the Norwegian Humanist Prize 1988.
