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TFF is an independent think tank, a global network that aims to bring about peace by peaceful means. It inspires a passion for peace from the grassroots to the corridors of power. TFF is an all-volunteer global network. It promotes conflict-mitigation and reconciliation in general, as well as in a more targeted way in a selected number of conflict regions - through meticulous on-the-ground research, active listening, education and advocacy. The Foundation is committed to doing diagnosis and prognosis as well as proposing solutions. It does so in a clear, pro-peace manner. transnational.live

Fearology and militarism but the real enemy is us

The 5th article in TFF’s series “The New Cold War” NATO’s Summit begins today in Warsaw and there is a need for the alliance to mitigate its internal divisions and the relative weakening of the West by uniting outward on…

Cheating Moscow – NATO’s dangerous expansion

Cheating Moscow – NATO’s dangerous expansion, is the fourth article in TFF’s series “The New Cold War”.  By Jonathan Power,  Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research Associate. NATO’s Summit takes place this coming weekend in Warsaw. Warsaw is the Polish…

If Obama visits Hiroshima – part 2

In Prague, Obama significantly noted that “..as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act.” [emphasis added] In the 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)…

If Obama visits Hiroshima – part 1

If Obama visits Hiroshima – Part 1 By Richard Falk, TFF Associate There are mounting hopes that Barack Obama will use the occasion of the Group of 7 meeting in Japan next month to visit Hiroshima, and become the first…

Iran – Inside, history, relations with the West and the nuclear treaty

TFF PressInfo # 346 Lund, Sweden, October 21, 2015 It is with pleasure we send you ten recent articles about Iran, the West and the background to the treaty concluded about Iran’s nuclear technology.  They are written by Dr. Farhang…

The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize and lawsuit against the Nobel Foundation

The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 is certainly a little step in the right direction to honour at least parts of Alfred Nobel’s will. It doesn’t violate the Will of Alfred Nobel which has happened so many times before. And it’s…

Netanyahu’s dangerous, dishonest speech

Below excerpts of a longer analysis by Dr. Jahanpour on TFFs blog here. It also exposes how Netanyahu misused the Bible and what the reality is about the four Middle Eastern capitals that he stated were now controlled by Iran. The…

Change the Iran policy now

The First Conference on ”World Against Violence and Extremism” is inaugurated here in Tehran this morning by President Rouhani. His idea was endorsed unanimously by the UN General Assembly last year. This PressInfo was written before I came to Iran.…

The Nobel Committee again ignores Nobel’s will

This prize is not a human rights or do-good prize. The two – excellent – people who are awarded the prize for 2014 have done great work for children’s rights but, unfortunately, human rights is not what Alfred Nobel sought…

Instead of bombing ISIS

  This two-part article offers a pro-peace perspective on the present war on ISIS in Iraq and Syria. First some principles to stimulate another discourse, another way of thinking that is not militarist – and then some concrete proposals –…

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