Before revision: many peace researchers failed to distinguish between objective research into the conditions of war and peace on one hand, and political action and propaganda in favor of specific policies Barbara Kay, a columnist for the National Post, specifically criticized the views of Norwegian Johan Galtung of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, a Norwegian state funded-body, based upon the structural marxism of his early research and later polemicism.
After revision: formerlymany peace researchers failed to distinguish between objective research into the conditions of war and peace on one hand, and political action and propaganda in favor of specific policies Barbara Kay, a columnist for the National Post, specifically criticized the views of Norwegian Johan Galtung of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, a Norwegian state funded-body, based upon the structural marxism of his early research and later polemicism.