Are killing-free societies possible? Evidence suggests that by working with committed organizations, leaders and individuals like you we can signficantly 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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    • Action Principles

    In addition to seeking knowledge required by the logic of nonkilling analysis as related to the tasks of creating nonkilling alternatives in zones that converge on killing, a nonkilling paradigm shift requires perfection of principles to assist individual and social decisions from daily life to global politics. These can be advanced by an experimental validation approach that combines practical experience and exploratory simulations. Military human-computer and "virtual reality" combat simulations of this kind are already far advanced.

    Among nonkilling principles that have arisen in salient 20th century actions (as in the Gandhian and Kingian movements) that merit consideration are:

    • Draw strength from life-respecting inspiration, whether religious or humanist. Respect your own life and lives of others.
    • Seek the well-being of all. Killing divides; nonkilling unites.
    • In conflict, from beginning to end seek reconciliation not humiliation, degradation, predation, or annihilation.
    • Join in constructive service to remove conditions of suffering of those in need.
    • Be creative. It has taken great creativity to reach present conditions of technological and structural violence. It will require greater creativity for nonkilling transformation.
    • Adopt an experimental approach to change. Seek successive approximations of nonkilling societies, learning from successes and failures.
    • Respect both individual and large-scale social action, from the influence of moral example to mass nonkilling people’s power.
    • Be constructively courageous. Withdraw support from violence and commit it to strengthen nonkilling alternatives.
    • Walk lightly upon the earth, reduce demands upon nature and fellow human beings that contribute to killing.

    Each person who participates in processes of nonkilling discovery and action can contribute to perfecting progressively more powerful principles and skills for nonkilling affirmation of global life that are appropriate for specific situations and contexts.

    See Nonkilling Global Political Science (2002; 2009).