John Y. Jones

VIOLENCE: Max Rook was a monster, a monstrosity – someone who enjoyed seeing others suffer. Kristin Aalen wanted to get under the skin of the "torturer", to find out what motivations he might have.

LITERATURE: Han Kang does not turn away from death or the dead. And she also sees the perpetrators, sees them as alive, with their own history. MODERN TIMES gives here an introduction to the Nobel Prize winner in literature for 2024.

AWARD: David Swanson received 'The Real Nobel Peace Prize' this year. This has its background in Nobel's ambition to build down, yes, remove, the military, the weapons and consequently their manufacturers.

NUCLEAR BOMBS:Günther Anders was concerned that man's highest science had constructed an instrument for its own destruction. In this book, Hannah Winther actualizes him by drawing in Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning Oppenheimer film that just plays on the old Prometheus myth.

The Hardanger Academy for Peace, Development and the Environment is a non-profit organization that has held its annual summer symposia in Jondal since 2000. Under its former name, the Nordic Peace Academy, it has worked here on peace issues and the possibilities for...

In 2019, RAND openly presented the report on destabilizing Russia whose title can be translated as "How to overthrow Putin". Everything is available to the media and researchers. The proposed measures are to...

MOVIE: Hammarskjöld's humour, drama, warmth, actionism, anger, irony, meetings with the press and youth, his spiritual and soulful musings form endlessly rich and fascinating possibilities that director Per Fly only exceptionally touches on in this new film.

CONFLICTS: Glenn Diesen believes it is time to look at the relationship with Russia and 'the others' – at least an attempt to observe the situation from their side. Meanwhile, the US defines 'democracy' as its 'rules-based order' – eagerly promoted with 800 US military aces around the world. A graveyard democracy, an illusion of peace.

JULIAN ASSANGE: Aftenposten had learned from Julian Assange and sucked what they could from his WikiLeaks data universe, and millions of secrets, before quickly throwing him under the bus. Assange created the whistleblowers' perpetuum mobile, WikiLeaks, an unlimited infinity machine of truth where truth whistleblowers all over the world were given the opportunity to reach out – and lift the blankets that hide the lies of power, their war crimes, corruption, tax fraud, hidden bank accounts, fortunes and conspiracies. What now?