Nonkilling Security Panel in Ottawa

As part of 7th Annual Ottawa Peace Festival, a panel, “Beyond War and Militarization: Nonkilling Security” was held on September 24 at the Main Ottawa Library to discuss the possibilities of Nonkilling Security in the 21st Century. The panel organized by Canadian Dept of Peace Initiative (CPI) had representations from UN peacekeeping, International police service, armed force chaplain, and Christian peacemakers team, and the Canadian department of peace movement.

The panelists discussed structures needed for nonviolent approaches to conflict resolution within Canada and abroad. The panel included: Bill Bhaneja, co-convener of the 7th Annual Ottawa Peace Festival and CGNK Governing Council Member; Wayne Martin, former RCMP officer with Police training assignments in Haiti; Steeve Moore, retired chaplain with Canadian forces in Afghanistan; Paul Maillet, accredited Peace Professional and retd. air force Colonel with the Department of Naitonal Defense; Colin Stuart, Quaker; and Theresa Dunn, CPI national co-chair. Iman Abrahim of Canadian Peace Initiative(CPI) chaired the panel.

The panel is a reaction to the 2013 CGNK book Nonkilling Security and the State, which includes a selection of sixteen chapters prepared mostly by members of its Nonkilling Security and International Relations Research Committee and its Nonkilling Political Science Research Committee. The 426 page volume, edited by CGNK Director Joám Evans Pim, has a Foreword by Stephen M. Younger, Former Head of Nuclear Weapons Research and Development, and an Introduction by Chaiwat Satha-Anand. A PDF version can be downloaded for free from CGNK’s website and paperback copies can be ordered at $16 from Create Space.com or Amazon.com.