Johan Galtung, the founder of peace studies (my field), on the the trial of Anders Behring Breivik, the anti-Muslim Norwegian militant who massacred 77 people last summer, and the connections to the Afghanistan war:
The rest of his (brief) interview is available below.
[Breivik is] quite well-read, he's an intelligent man, autodidact, very hard working, and the nonsense that he was a paranoid schizophrenic, they got rid of, and they have declared him normal. He's politically, I would say, as midguided as anyone could be, but not much more than the Norwegian government killing Afghans in Afghanistan. I do not get very popular in Norway for drawing that parallel, but I stand behind it.
The rest of his (brief) interview is available below.
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