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Active 2009–present · Awards: Humanist Prize, Erik Bye's Memorial Prize, Prices of the Norwegian Association of Sociology, Jamnalal Bajaj Award, Right Livelihood Award, Brage Prize for non-fiction, honorary doctor of the University of Alicante, honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
Johan Vincent Galtung was a Norwegian sociologist and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. He was the main founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 1959 and was its first director until 1970.