Kai Brand-Jacobsen 
Biography
NGO Director, Peace Activist from Romania
Kai Brand-Jacobsen is Director of the Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) and is Co-Director of Transcend, a development organization dedicated to resolving conflict by peaceful means.
Videos
Kai Brand-Jacobsen
How can we understand violence?
Brand-Jacobsen talks about how violence is built in to the fabric of our present social, economic and political systems. He talks about three levels of violence that pervade society…
Recorded: 4 November 2004
Kai Brand-Jacobsen
What are the historical roots of terrorism?
Kai talks about how the roots of terrorism can be traced back to the rise of colonialism in the 16th and 17th centuries. He explains how imperialism led to race ideology –…
Recorded: 4 November 2004
Kai Brand-Jacobsen
Is it possible to develop alternatives to the current economic system?
In the first clip (see “Roots of Violence”) Kai talked about how the current global economic system has created what the Nobel Peace Institute has referred to as a system…
Recorded: 4 November 2004
Kai Brand-Jacobsen
Is our reporting of war adequate?
Kai talks about the fundamental difference between conflict and violence and how the media often confuses the two. He speaks about the alarming lack of analysis in media reportage…
Recorded: 4 November 2004
Kai Brand-Jacobsen
With all the problems in the world, are there still reasons for hope?
In this final clip, Kai Brand-Jacobsen speaks about hope. The pro-democracy and anti-war movements may have failed in preventing the war in Iraq from happening in 2003, but he suggests…
Recorded: 4 November 2004
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