Ahmedabad: Renowned peace researcher and
activist Dr Johan Galtung today said that US President Barak
Obama was a "weak and naive" person and he did not expect much
from him.
"Obama is weak and naive person...I do not expect much
from him," Galtung, director of an international peace and
development network Transcend, said while talking to reporters
here.
The scholar from Norway has acted as an expert mediator
in diverse conflict situations and is widely known for his
work on structural violence. He is here to conduct a two-day
workshop on 'The current global order; conflict and
resolutions', beginning tomorrow.
Asked if a peaceful solution to terrorism existed, he
said "yes."
"Terrorism is caused due to conflicts and the most stupid
thing to do is to fight terrorism. For a peaceful solution is
to find the cause of conflict and trying to resolve it (with
dialogue)," Galtung said.
He said terrorism has other side of coin called state
terrorism.
"State terrorism has the plane which drops the bomb,
while the terrorism has bomb without the plane. What happened
during 9/11 was that the plane was the bomb," he said.
Galtung also wished that China and India could come
closer and join hands.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 23:22