Johan Galtung là Giáo sư Đại học Hawaii và được mời thỉnh giảng trên 30 Đại học nổi tiếng khắp thế giới. Ông còn là Giám Đốc của Transcend và Peace Research Institute, Olso. Vớitrên 50 ấn phẩm và 1000 công trình nghiên cứu khoa học về Hoà Binh ông đã nổi danh là người sáng lập cho lĩnh vực Peace Studies. Với những đóng góp to lớnnày ông được nhiều giải thưỏng cao qúy. Tác phẩm chính trong lĩnh vực Phật học là „Buddhism: A Quest for Unity and Peace” (1993). 

Johan Vincent Galtung (born 24 October 1930) is a Norwegian sociologist, and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies.^[1]

He was the main founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 1959 and served as its first director until 1970. He also established the Journal of Peace Research in 1964. In 1969 he was appointed to the world's first chair in peace and conflict studies, at the University of Oslo. He resigned his Oslo professorship in 1977 and has since held professorships at several other universities; from 1993 to 2000 he taught as Distinguished Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Hawaii. He has been based in Kuala Lumpur, where he was the first Tun Mahathir Professor of Global Peace at the International Islamic University Malaysia until 2015.^[2]

He earned the cand. real.[7] degree in mathematics at the University of Oslo in 1956, and a year later completed the mag. art. (PhD)[7] degree in sociology at the same university.[6] Galtung received the first of thirteen honorary doctorates in 1975.[8]

Galtung's father and paternal grandfather were both physicians. The Galtung name has its origins in Hordaland, where his paternal grandfather was born. Nevertheless, his mother, Helga Holmboe, was born in central Norway, in Trøndelag, while his father was born in Østfold, in the south. Galtung has been married twice, and has two children by his first wife Ingrid Eide, Harald Galtung and Andreas Galtung, and two by his second wife Fumiko Nishimura, Irene Galtung and Fredrik Galtung.[9]

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Upon receiving his mag. art. degree, Galtung moved to Columbia University, in New York City, where he taught for five semesters as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology.[10] In 1959, Galtung returned to Oslo, where he founded the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). He served as the institute's director until 1969, and saw the institute develop from a department within the Norwegian Institute of Social Research into an independent research institute with enabling funds from the Norwegian Ministry of Education.[11]

In 1964, Galtung led PRIO to establish the first academic journal devoted to Peace Studies: the Journal of Peace Research.[11] In the same year, he assisted in the founding of the International Peace Research Association.[12] In 1969 he left PRIO for a position as professor of peace and conflict research at the University of Oslo, a position he held until 1978.[11]

He then served as the director general of the International University Centre in Dubrovnik, as well as helping to found and serving as the president of the World Future Studies Federation.[13][14] He has also held visiting positions at other universities, including Santiago, Chile, the United Nations University in Geneva, and at Columbia, Princeton and the University of Hawaii.[15] He has served at so many universities that he has "probably taught more students on more campuses around the world than any other contemporary sociologist".[13] Galtung is currently teaching courses in the Human Science Department at Saybrook University.[16][failed verification]

In December 2010, Galtung gave a lecture entitled "Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict" at the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series.

Galtung is a prolific researcher, having made contributions to many fields in sociology. He has published more than 1000 articles and over 100 books.[17] Economist and fellow peace researcher Kenneth Boulding has said of Galtung that his "output is so large and so varied that it is hard to believe that it comes from a human".[18] He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[19]

In 2014 he was appointed as the first Tun Mahathir Professor of Global Peace at the International Islamic University Malaysia. The chair is supported by the Perdana Global Peace Foundation and is named for its founder and chairman, Malaysia's fourth prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. The aim of the chair is to "create greater awareness, promotion and advocacy of global peace including the protection of human rights and criminalization of war."[20]