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To Johan Galtung: On Food, Culture, and Sex
16 Mar 2015

To Johan Galtung: On Food, Culture, and Sex

by Sam Chapple Sokol | posted in: Posts | 0

I was recently approached on Twitter by Johan Galtung, the legendary scholar of peace studies and the creator of many ideas used by practitioners and students of peace and conflict: structural violence, negative vs. positive peace, and the whole concept … Continued

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Culinary Diplomacy is the use of food and cuisine as instruments to create cross-cultural understanding in the hopes of improving interactions and cooperation. That's an academic way of saying using food to get along with people, to talk with people and to get to know them better. Hillary Clinton once called food "the oldest diplomatic tool."

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