TRANSCEND INTERNATIONAL was incorporated in August 1993 by Johan Galtung and Fumiko Nishimura as a conflict mediation organization. Dietrich Fischer, the current director of TRANSCEND University Press, joined soon after and in June 1995 Dietrich Fischer and Johan Galtung invited 11 others. TRANSCEND has 350 scholars-practitioners from 80 countries as members, one third women till mid 2010.
TRANSCEND International, Inc., is registered in Hawai’i and has 501(c)3 tax-exemption. TRANSCEND International is a timely experiment in promoting peace by peaceful means throughout the world. Traditionally, institutes have been centered around a building where the people who work together meet on a regular basis. Since many people who share common interests in helping transform conflicts nonviolently and creatively are geographically scattered and cannot usually be physically together, our solution was to create an electronic network of members, which, in addition, to diminishing our carbon-footprints and contribute to attenuate the global warming crisis has allowed TRANSCEND INTERNATIONAL to connect autonomous individuals and academic and research centers from all over the world with a focus on peace by peaceful means, development by developmental means and environment by eco-consistent means.
More concretely, TRANSCEND practices mediation and peace-building around the world, with Manuals, a Code of Conduct, and Perspectives with diagnosis, prognosis and therapy for conflicts (see: 50 Years-100 Peace & Conflict Perspectives, TRANSCEND University Press, 2008). Our mission-statement defines four pillars on which our ongoing work builds in order to bring about a more peaceful world.
These are as follows:
· Action,
· Education/training
· Dissemination
· Research
TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU (www.transcend.org/tpu), for government and non-government practitioners and students at any level, with 12-week bi-semester on-line courses, and intensive TPU on-site training programs in several locations around the world (see announcements at the TPU website);
TRANSCEND University Press-TUP (www.transcend.org/tup), which publishes high quality books and textbooks about peace by peaceful means, development by developmental means, and environment by environmental means;
· TRANSCEND Research Institute-TRI (www.transcend.org/tri), which publishes research papers and booklets for free downloading;
· TRANSCEND Peace Service-TPS, which offers mediation, conciliation and peace-building services by TRANSCEND members, and is open to anybody around the world with conflict and peace concerns and experiences; and
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