DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES
TRANSCEND is A Network for Peace and Development, but so far the focus has been on Peace & Conflict. Time has come for Development with a shift toward a more human-centered orientation--as in the UNDP Human Development Report--after decades of neoliberalism. This is an invitation to other TRANSCEND regions around the world to join TRANSCEND-Nordic in exploring Development Perspectives.
The Cocoyoc Declaration, by many seen as the most progressive resolution the UN System (UNCTAD & UNEP) ever passed, in Cocoyoc, Mexico, 8-12/10 1974 (Rapporteur: Johan Galtung). The resolution was denounced by then
Deep gratitude to Gamani Corea and Maurice Strong, at the time directors of UNCTAD and UNEP, for the Cocoyoc meeting.
2) CCPR/ Chair in Conflict and Peace Research Papers
The CCPR/Chair in Conflict and Peace Research Papers,
Deep gratitude to the late Rector Otto Bastiansen for the first Chair in onflict and Peace research in the World in 1969.
The GPID/UNU Working Papers, produced by the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development project 1976-1981 of the United Nations University in Tokyo, as a part of its Human and Social Development Program. The 73 working papers were written by 66 members of the project (Coordinator: Johan Galtung). The project was discontinued when the UNU Rector refused book publication.
Deep gratitude to Professor Kinhide Mushakoji, at the time Vice-Rector for Human and Social Development, and to Professor Hassan Hanafi, then of the same program.
The Galtung GPID Period Papers ,1976/1981. These 51 papers were all written for the GPID Project--which had 20 sub-projects, here organized according to groupings of sub-projects. The papers have been patiently "waiting for their time to come."
Deep gratitude to IUED, Institut d'études du développement of the Université de Genève and its then director, the late Professor Roy Preiswerk, and to UNITAR-Geneva and its director at the time, Hans J. Geiser, for hosting and housing the project.
The joint research outputs CCPR and GPID/UNU are here shared with the world community of development research and practice. Development Perspectives can be extracted, for the four pillars Action-Education/Training-Dissemination-Research of Transcend so that Peace by Peaceful Means can be followed by Development by Developmental Means, with Environment by Environmental Means. Peace is more than absence of direct violence and development more than absence of structural violence; there is also conviviality for peace, human fulfillment for development, and self-reproduction for nature.
In the field of peace Conflict Transformation (by Peaceful Means) became a useful approach. What is useful for development, what corresponds to that underlying approach for development? Human-Social-World Transformation? Maybe.
Johan Galtung, Versonnex, September 2007
