Articles by Center for Global Nonkilling
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Between Killing with Nukes and the Possibility of a Nonkilling Global Society
Roland Joseph, Ph.D. | Center for Global Nonkilling, India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
9 Aug 2024 – 79 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the risk of killing directly and indirectly with nukes remains tangible. When I say directly, I mean at any time; nuclear weapons can be used by accident, miscalculation or by the willingness of nuclear states.
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Racism, Nonkilling, and Shared Humanity
Bill Bhaneja | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
21 Sep 2022 – Ending racism is essentially about making each person equal, respectful and dignified as the other. To achieve this to the fullest, over the past two centuries the fight has continued globally in tackling racism at the international, national and individual levels. This presentation provides an overview of anti-racism and peacebuilding through the lens of Universal Rights, Nonkilling and Human Dignity.
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Glenn Durland Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Prophet of Nonkilling
David Krieger | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
I wrote this in 2010, the year in which Glenn received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leadership Award. It is about Glenn’s great transformation in life from a successful academic to a prophet of nonkilling. I’ve left the article in the present tense, and believe that Glenn lives on in the hearts and minds of the many people he inspired with his commitment to and leadership for a nonkilling world.
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Peace Portraits: Pathways to Nonkilling
Review by Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
29 Apr 2022 – The Center for Global Nonkilling has just released its latest book, co-published with Creighton University, which artfully explores the intersection between faith, ethics and politics in modern times.
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Youth, Violence and Peace: Experiences from Cali and Medellín
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
3 Oct 2021 – The text, originally in Spanish, is published by Universidad de Medellín in a joint research project with the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (Cali) in Colombia. The book can be downloaded for free here.
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“Nonkilling Anthropology” Book Launched
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
31 Aug 2021 – The CGNK has launched today its latest academic publication, Nonkilling Anthropology: A New Approach to Studying Human Nature, War, and Peace, by Professor Leslie E. Sponsel. Inspired by the work of CGNK’s founder Glenn D. Paige, this book explores the mutual relevance of anthropology, nonkilling and peace studies–and their synergy.
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Three Windows and Critical Peace/Nonviolence Research
Chaiwat Satha-Anand | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
The Windows help us to peer into three contemporary peace research pioneers: Glenn D. Paige (1929-2017), Gene Sharp (1928-2018), and Johan Galtung (1930- ).
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Glenn Durland Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Prophet of Nonkilling
David Krieger | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
I wrote this in 2010, the year in which Glenn received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leadership Award. It is about Glenn’s great transformation in life from a successful academic to a prophet of nonkilling. I’ve left the article in the present tense, and believe that Glenn lives on in the hearts and minds of the many people he inspired with his commitment to and leadership for a nonkilling world.
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Glenn Durland Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Prophet of Nonkilling
David Krieger | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
I wrote this in 2010, the year in which Glenn received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leadership Award. It is about Glenn’s great transformation in life from a successful academic to a prophet of nonkilling. I’ve left the article in the present tense, and believe that Glenn lives on in the hearts and minds of the many people he inspired with his commitment to and leadership for a nonkilling world.
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San Marino Declared 1st Nonkilling Country in the World
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
13 Mar 2020 – In a statement at the Human Rights Council on March 12, Christophe Barbey, CGNK’s representative at the United Nations in Geneva, declared the Republic of San Marino to be the first nonkilling country. To our knowledge, there were during the last five years no murders, no suicides and no deadly traffic accidents in the country.
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Nonkilling Paradigm
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
21 Dec 2019 – Springer academic publishers has just released The Nonkilling Paradigm: For World Peace and Enlightenment by Dr. Katyayani Singh and Dr. Anoop Swarup. The book addresses the human civilizational ethos and explores the concept of the nonkilling paradigm concerning human dignity, human rights, affirmative nonkilling, positive peace and the advancement of human existence.
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«Give Nonkilling a Chance» Book Released in Delhi
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
7 Sep 2019 – Give Nonkilling a Chance: Are Nonkilling Societies Possible? edited by Prof. Anoop Swarup and dedicated to late Prof. Glenn D. Paige, with contributions from across the world, was released at Gandhi Smriti, Delhi on 31 Aug 2019.
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Doctoral Thesis on Nonkilling Mechanisms by TRANSCEND Member Joám Evans Pim at Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2019
Evans defended the role of restraint mechanisms for the prevention of potentially lethal aggression as an evolutionary driver for the development and complexification of hominin communicative abilities, including articulated language and symbolic cultural practices.
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Global Nonkilling Index Launched
Bill Bhaneja | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
‘This index reflects an advanced method of indexing peace by looking at “killing” beyond traditional murder rates, to includes suicide, capital punishment, and battlefield death rates… Because a nonkilling index provides a better correlation to peace in a broader context than simple murder rates, the adoption of a nonkilling index, such as proposed in this article, will hopefully encourage the collection of more data on killing in any form every year by the World Health Organization and others’.
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John Pavley – Center for Global Nonkilling,
23 Dec 2013
The chief technology officer at the The Huffington Post published an innovative article bridging nonkilling with the latest IT technologies, evidencing the applicability of this concept in how new projects are conceived, designed and implemented.
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Prof. Glenn D. Paige – Center for Global Nonkilling,
13 Sep 2010
Evidence suggests that by working with committed organizations, leaders and individuals like you we can significantly reduce and eventually eliminate human killing. This goal belongs to everyone, across political, religious or ethnic affiliations. The development of truly civil societies, and nothing less than the future of humankind, depends on our joint success.
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