I want you all to know that if I haven’t answered to all the expressions of compassion that I have been reading by now, it’s because I have tried to think, and I have tried to think of one thing: how can we prevent movements like the movement Breivik participated in?
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Ida, granddaughter of Johan Galtung, the great Norwegian sociologist and scholar of peace and conflict, in a personal letter “Norway’s Johan Galtung, Peace & Conflict Pioneer, on How to Stop Extremism that Fueled Shooting” on DemocracyNow! 7/29/11 Ida was caught in the attack on Utøya, but managed to escape unharmed with her friend Johanna. Any passion I have on this issue is oriented to the same question, of prevention. |
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