Research Committees

Nonkilling Research Committees on various areas of knowledge act as consultative bodies to promote the advancement of interdisciplinary scientific evidence on the possibilities of nonkilling societies. These Committees provide creative input on research agendas, academic events, courses and publications. Scholars from all disciplines are welcome to participate. Please contact CGNK Research Team Leader Joám Evans Pim or Committee Coordinators for additional information.

Established Research Committees: Anthropology; Arts; Economics; Education; Futures Studies; Geography; Health Sciences; History; Law Studies; Linguistics; Media Studies; Neuroscience; Philosophy; Political Science; Psychology; Science and Technology; Security and International Relations; Sociology; Spiritual Traditions; Urban Studies.

Nonkilling Anthropology Research Committee

• Patrick F. Clarkin, University of Massachusetts Boston (website).
• Robert K. Dentan, University of Buffalo (website).
• Brian Ferguson, Rutgers University, Newark (website).
• Douglas Fry, Åbo Akademi University (website).
• David Galeano Olivera, Asunción National University (website).
• Peter M. Gardner, University of Missouri (website).
• Gilbert L. Geis, University of California, Irvine (website).
• Piero P. Giorgi, University of Queensland (website).
• Alberto Gomes, Latrobe University (website).
• Charles Macdonald, Institute for Advanced Study (website).
• Laura J. McClusky, Wells College (website).
• Sushil Mittal, James Madison University (website).
• Michael I. Niman, Buffalo State College (website).
• Richard Preston, McMaster University (website).
• Les Sponsel, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Robert Wald Sussman, Washington University in St. Louis (website).
• Richard Wrangham, Harvard University (website).

Nonkilling Arts Research Committee

• Ada Aharoni, IFLAC: The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace (website).
• Ashok Chakravarthy, Music for Global Peace (website).
• Ina Curic, Peace and Collaborative Network (website).
• John Douglas, Peace and Justice (website).
• Ellen Frank, E. Frank Illumination Arts Foundation (website).
• Francisco Gomes de Matos, Federal University of Pernambuco (website).
• Patricia Wong Hall, HDHS World Art for Equal Dignity / Risha Arts (website).
• Anis Hamadeh, Zentrum zur Förderung des Nichttötens(website).
• Benoit (Ben) Mussanzi, Centre Resolution Conflicts, Bradford
  (website).
• Vera Nazarian, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (website).
• Mark Shadle, East Oregon University (website).
• George Simson, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Michael True, Center for Nonviolent Solutions (website).
• Olivier Urbain, Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research (website).

Nonkilling Economics Research Committee

• Mohammed Abu-Nimer, American University (website).
• Reuben Adeolu Alabi, University of Bremen (website).
• José Alcalde, Alacant University (website).
• Charles Anderton, College of the Holy Cross (website).
• A. T. Ariyaratne, Sarvodaya Shramadana (website).
• Jurgen Brauer, Augusta State University (website).
• Rocío Campos, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (website).
• Raul Caruso, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (website).
• Koustuv Dalal, Linkoping University (website).
• Jamshid Damooei, California Lutheran University (website).
• Lloyd (Jeff) Dumas, University of Texas at Dallas (website).
• Paul Dunne, University of the West of England (website).
• Wolfram Elsner, University of Bremen (website).
• Dietrich Fischer, European University Center for Peace Studies (website).
• Johan Galtung, TRANSCEND Peace University (website).
• Partha Gangopadhyay, University of Western Sydney (website).
• Robley E. George (Coordinador), Center for the Study of Democratic Societies (website).
• Nils Petter Gleditsch, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (website).
• James B. Quilligan, Centre for Global Negotiations (website).
• Michael D. Intriligator, University of California, Los Angeles (website).
• Christos Kollias, University of Thessaly (website).
• Sarah Laeng-Gilliatt, Institute for Nonviolent Economics (website).
• Alfredo Macías Vázquez, Santiago de Compostela University (website).
• David E. Martin, M·CAM and University of Virginia (website).
• Kamran Mofid, Globalisation for the Common Good (website).
• Epo Boniface Ngah, University of Yaoundé II (website).
• Rick van der Ploeg, University of Oxford (website).
• Dominic Rohner, University of York (website).
• Elisabeth Sköns, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (website).
• Ron Smith, Birkbeck, University of London (website).
• Anoop Swarup, Shobhit University (website).
• Kone Youssouf, University of Bouake (website).
• Juan F. Vargas, University of Rosario (website).

Nonkilling Education Research Committee

• Andrea Bartlett, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Birgit Brock-Utne, University of Oslo (website).
• Diego Escobar Diaz, entro de Investigación y Educación Popular (website).
• Jennifer Gidley, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (website).
• Sophia Herrero Rico, Jaume I University (website).
• Victor Kobayashi, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Hayal Köksal, Turkish Center for Schools of Quality (website).
• Lee Wing On, Hong Kong Institute of Education (website).
• B. Jeannie Lum, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Catherine McTamaney, Vanderbilt University (website).
• María Oianguren Idígoras, Gernika Gogoratuz (website).
• George Psacharopoulos, University of Athens (website).
• Michael B. Salzman, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Milton Schwebel, Rutgers University (website).
• Martin Smedjeback, Avrusta! (website).
• Dale T. Snauwaert, University of Toledo (website).
• Clifton Tanabe, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Polly O. Walker, The University of Queensland (website).
• Shelley Wong, George Mason University (website).

Nonkilling Futures Studies Research Committee

• Guy Archer, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Guillermina Baena Paz, National Autonomous University of Mexico (website).
• Terry Beitzel, James Madison University (website).
• Wendell Bell, Yale University (website).
• Jim Dator, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Jake Dunagan, Institute for the Future (website).
• Heather Frey, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Eric Fugarolas, Independent researcher (website).
• Jennifer Gidley, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (website).
• Fabienne Goux-Baudiment, proGective (website).
• Linda Groff, California State University, Dominguez HillsCarson (website).
• Tiffany Haberstick, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Karen Hurley, University of Victoria (website)
• Maorong Jiang, Creighton University (website).
• Christopher B. Jones, Gaia Somatics (website).
• Eric Kemp-Benedict, Stockholm Environment Institute (website).
• Steve Lohse, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Elizabeth Song Lockard, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Eleonora Masini, Pontifical Gregorian University (website)
• Ivana Milojevic, University of the Sunshine Coast (website).
• Seong Won Park, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Vincent K. Pollard, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Wylma C. Samaranayake-Robinson, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Bernadett Szél, Corvinus University of Budapest (website).
• Cesar H. Villanueva, University of St. La Salle (website).

Nonkilling Geography Research Committee

• Sunil Aggarwal, University of Washington (website).
• Susan Dixon, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Liza Griffin, University of Westminster (website).
• Joshua Inwood, Auburn University (website).
• Colin Flint, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (website).
• David Pepper, Oxford Brookes University (website).
• Alcindo José de Sá, Federal University of Pernambuco (website).
• James Tyner (Coordinador), Kent State University (website).

Nonkilling Health Sciences Research Committee

• David Arond, Harvard University (website).
• Jill Astbury, Victoria University (website).
• Bernard Gesch, Oxford University (website).
• Lecce Maria Giuseppina, Ministry of Health, Italy (website).
• Alisher I. Iskandarov, Tashkent Pediatric Medical Institute (website).
• Jiao Fuyong, Xi'an Philanthropic Child Abuse Prevention and Aid Centre (website).
• Sunil Kumar Joshi, Kathmandu Medical College (website).
• Margarita Kachaeva, Serbsky National Research Centre for Social and Forensic Psychiatry (website).
• James A. Mercy, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (website).
• Rebecca Shor, Center for Disease Control, Hawai’i (website).
• Kaleo Veary, University of Hawai’i (website).

Nonkilling History Research Committee

• David Adams, Foundation for a Culture of Peace (website).
• Antony Adolf, Independent scholar (website).
• Amadio A. Arboleda , Josai International University (website).
• Scott H. Bennett, Georgian Court University (website).
• Ira Chernus, University of Colorado at Boulder (website).
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, California State University at Hayward (website).
• Peter van den Dungen, University of Bradford (website).
• Michael S. Foley, City University of New York (website).
• Robert Jacobs, Hiroshima City University (website).
• Sahar Al-Majali, Al-Balqa' Applied University (website).
• Holger Nehring, University of Sheffield (website).
• Israel Sanmartín, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (website).
• Jacques Semelin, Center for International Studies and Research - CNRS (website).
• Lawrence S. Wittner, State University of New York at Albany (website).
• Kazuyo Yamane, Kochi University (website).
• Benjamin Ziemann, University of Sheffield (website).
• Howard Zinn, Boston University (1922-2010).

Nonkilling Law Studies Research Committee

• Bruce Barnes, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Eduardo Bittar, University of São Paulo (website).
• Vitor Blotta, University of São Paulo (website).
• John Van Dyke, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Roger H. Epstein, Hawai’i Forgiveness Project (website).
• Richard A. Falk, Princeton University (website).
• Michelo Hansungule, University of Pretoria (website).
• Carole J. Petersen, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Nasila Rembe, University of Fort Hare (website).
• Carlos Rodríguez-Domínguez, La Laguna University (website).
• Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, American University (website).

Nonkilling Linguistics Research Committee

• Ulrich Ammon, University of Duisburg-Essen (website).
• Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (website).
• Teun A. van Dijk, Pompeu Fabra University (website).
• Abdou Abdeljlil Elimam, ENSET d'Oran (website).
• Luis Enrique López, Universidad Mayor de San Simón (website).
• José Antonio Flores Farfan, Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (website).
• Patricia Friedrich (Coordinador), Arizona State University (website).
• Howard Giles, University of California, Santa Barbara (website).
• Lauren Hall-Lew, Oxford University (website).
• Murilo Jardelino, Nove de Julho University (website).
• Alexandre Kimenyi, California State University, Sacramento (website).
• Terry Lamb, University of Sheffield (website).
• Vilson J. Leffa, Catholic University of Pelotas (website).
• Gilda Lins de Araujo, Federal University of Pernambuco (website).
• Adam Makkai, University of Illinois at Chicago (website).
• Luiz Paulo da Moita Lopes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (website).
• Fèlix Martí, Linguapax Institute (website).
• Francisco Gomes de Matos, Federal University of Pernambuco (website).
• Suzanne Romaine, University of Oxford (website).
• Cristina Salles-Altman, University of São Paulo (website).
• Leonor Scliar-Cabral, Federal University of Santa Catarina (website).
• Joseph-G. Turi, International Academy of Linguistic Law (website).
• Marcelo Bernardo de Andrade, Federal University of Pernambuco (website).
• Fernand de Varennes, Murdoch University (website).
• Júlio César Vila Nova, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (website).
• James Whitton, University of Michigan, Flint (website).
• Shelley Wong, George Mason University (website).

Nonkilling Media Studies Research Committee

• Susan Dente Ross, Washington State University (website).
• María-José Gámez-Fuentes, Jaume I University (website).
• Beverly Keever, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Yahya R. Kamalipour, Purdue University (website).
• Wilhelm Kempf, University of Konstanz (website).
• Philip Lee, World Association for Christian Communication (website)
• Rozanne Leppington, James Madison University (website)
• Jake Lynch, The University of Sydney (website).
• Brian Martin, University of Wollongong (website).
• María José Martínez, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (website).
• Aleksandar Mitic, University of Belgrade (website).
• Stig Arne Nohrstedt, Örebro University (website).
• Eloísa Nos Aldás, Jaume I University (website).
• Rui Alexandre Novais (Coordinator), University of Porto (website).
• Rune Ottosen, Norwegian Association of Press and Media History (website).
• Dov Shinar, Netanya Academic College (website).
• Graham Spencer, University of Portsmouth (website).
• Xiaoge Xu, Nanyang Technological University (website).

Nonkilling Neuroscience Research Committee

• Nelly Alia-Klein, Brookhaven National Laboratory (website).
• Joshua Buckholtz, Vanderbilt University (website).
• David Buss, University of Texas at Austin (website).
• Lloyd DeMause, Institute for Psychohistory (website).
• Joshua Duntley, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (website).
• Mark Flinn, University of Missouri, Columbia (website).
• Piero P. Giorgi, University of Queensland (website).
• Klaus A. Miczek, Tufts University (website).
• Bruce Eldine Morton, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Randy J. Nelson, Ohio State University (website).
• James W. Prescott, Institute of Humanistic Science (website).
• Adrian Raine, University of Pennsylvania (website).
• Kathleen Taylor, Oxford University (website).
• Martin Hersch Teicher, Harvard University (website).
• Peter J. Whitehouse, Case Western Reserve University (website).

Nonkilling Philosophy Research Committee

• Irene Comins Mingol, Jaume I University (website).
• Gustavo Esteva, Universidad de la Tierra (website).
• Ellen W. Gorsevski, Bowling Green State University (website).
• Ramin Jahanbegloo, University of Toronto (website).
• Ron Leifer, Ithaca Dharma Society (website).
• Vicent Martínez Guzmán, Jaume I University (website).
• Jan Narveson, University of Waterloo (website).
• Sidi M. Omar, Jaume I University (website).
• Sonia París Albert, Jaume I University (website).
• Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez, Juiz de Fora Federal University (website).
• Daniel Rothbart, George Mason University (website).
• Dale T. Snauwaert, University of Toledo (website).

Nonkilling Political Science Research Committee

• Jose V. Abueva, Kalayaan College (website).
• Faisal O. Al-Rfouh, University of Jordan (website).
• Balwant (Bill) Bhaneja (Coordinator), University of Ottawa (website).
• Rubén Campos, Club de Madrid (website).
• Kevin P. Clements, University of Queensland (website).
• Maria Raquel Freire, University of Coimbra (website).
• Habu Galadima, University of Jos (website).
• Farah Godrej, University of California, Riverside (website).
• Oseremen Irene, Nigeria Alliance for Peace (website).
• George Kent, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Rashida Khanam, University of Chittagong, (website).
• David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (website).
• Ziad Majed, Alliance for a Responsible and United World (website).
• Suzeley Kalil Mathias, São Paulo State University (website).
• Jean-Pierre M. Mwanza, Central Africa Conflict Prevention Association (website).
• Madhav Nalapat, Manipal University (website).
• Michael Nojeim, Prairie View A&M University (website).
• Dele Ogunmola, University of New England (website).
• Mitsuo Okamoto, Hiroshima Shudo University (website).
• Debey Sayndee, University of Liberia (website).
• Livingstone Sewanyana, Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Uganda (website).
• Syed Sikander Mehdi, University of Karachi (website).
• Corina Simon, Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (website).
• James D. Slack, University of Alabama at Birmingham (website).
• William V. Smirnov, Russian Academy of Sciences (website).
• Ivo Mesquita Sobral, Fernando Pessoa University (website).
• Manfred B. Steger, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (website).
• Ralph Summy, The University of Queensland (website).
• Manish Thapa, Tribhuvan University (website).
• Anthony Wanis-St. John, American University (website).
• Thomas Weber, La Trobe University (website).

Nonkilling Psychology Research Committee

• Rita Agrawal, Guru Nanak Dev University (website).
• Rubén Ardila, National University of Colombia (website).
• David P. Barash, University of Washington (website).
• Daniel Bar-Tal, Tel Aviv University (website).
• Silvia M. Bigatti, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (website).
• Michael Britton, Rutgers University (website).
• Daniel J. Christie, Ohio State University (website).
• Joshua Duntley, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (website).
• Melanie Joy, University of Massachusetts Boston (website).
• Vinod Kool, State University of New York Institute of Technology (website).
• Ramon Lopez-Reyes, Center for the Study and Promotion of Zones of Peace (website).
• Dan Mayton, Lewis-Clark State College (website).
• Anthony Marsella, University of Hawai’i (website).
• Marc Pilisuk, University of California Santa Cruz (website).
• Joseph de Rivera, Clark University (website).
• Milton Schwebel, Rutgers University (website).
• Frans B. M. de Waal, Emory University (website).

Nonkilling Science and Technology Research Committee

• Ubiratan D´Ambrosio (Mathematics), University of São Paulo (website).
• Caroline Baillie (Engineering), Queens University, Kingston (website).
• Tom Børsen (Physics), Aalborg University Copenhagen (website).
• W Richard Bowen (Engineering), Swansea University (website).
• George Catalano (Engineering), Binghamton University (website).
• Antonino Drago (Physics), University of Pisa (website).
• Leonie S. Dreschler-Fischer (Computer Science), University of Hamburg (website).
• Camille M. George (Engineering), University of St. Thomas (website).
• David Haws (Engineering), Boise State University (website).
• Martin B. Kalinowski (Physics), University of Hamburg (website).
• Usman Mushtaq (Engineering), Queen's University (website).
• Mihai Nadin (Computer Science), University of Texas at Dallas (website).
• Vivek Patkar (Mathematics), Noetic Technologies (website).
• Chaitanya Pragya (Mathematics), Jain Vishva Bharati University (website).
• DMR Sekhar (Engineering), Independent researcher (website).
• P. Aarne Vesilind (Engineering), Bucknell University (website).
• David Wagner (Mathematics), University of New Brunswick (website).
• Brian Ward (Engineering), Fivepower Systems (website).

Nonkilling Security and International Relations Research Committee

• Fidelis Allen, University of Port Harcourt (website).
• Luis Fernando Ayerbe, São Paulo State University (website).
• Thalia Lacerda de Azevedo, São Paulo State University (website).
• Isiaka Alani Badmus, University of New England (website).
• Carlos Branco, National Defense Institute (website).
• Emiliano Buis, University of Buenos Aires (website)
• Thales Castro, Catholic University of Pernambuco (website)
• Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira (Coordinator), University of Minho (website).
• Francisco Proença Garcia, Portuguese Catholic University (website)
• Piki Ish-Shalom, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (website).
• Jørgen Johansen, European University Center for Peace Studies (website).
• Betsy Kawamura, Independent scholar (website).
• Peter Boswell McOmalla, Human Rights Education and Peace International, Tanzania (website).
• Jeffrey Stevenson Murer, University of St. Andrews (website).
• Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Thammasat University (website).
• Burton Sapin, George Washington University (website).
• Elói Martins Senhoras, Federal University of Roraima (website).
• Raphael Spode, Itajaí Valley University (website).
• Vicente Torrijos, University of Rosario, Colombia (website).
• Jorge Zaverucha, Federal University of Pernambuco (website).

Nonkilling Sociology Research Committee

• Howard S. Becker, Independent researcher (website).
• John Clammer, Sophia University (website).
• Michelle Emerson-Lewis, Metropolitan State University of Denver (website).
• Kathryn Feltey, University of Akron (website).
• Laura L. Finley, Barry University (website).
• Frank Fromherz, Portland State University (website).
• James R. Kelly, Fordham University (website).
• Lester Kurtz, George Mason University (website).
• Matthew T. Lee, University of Akron (website).
• Jan Øberg, Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research (website).
• Sudha Reddy, Grama Swaraj Samithi (website).
• Brenda K. Vollman, City University of New York (website).

Nonkilling Spiritual Traditions Research Committee

• Douglas Allen, University of Maine (website).
• Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Emory University (website).
• Gershon Baskin, Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (website).
• John Dear, Pax Christi New Mexico (website).
• Nathan C. Funk, University of Waterloo (website).
• Ruth Illman, Åbo Akademi University (website).
• Christopher Key Chapple, Loyola Marymount University (website).
• Antony R. H. Copley, University of Kent (website).
• Nicholas Gier, University of Idaho (website).
• Rabia Terri Harris, Muslim Peace Fellowship (website).
• Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara (website)
• Ramdas Lamb, University of Hawaiʻi (website).
• Sushil Mittal, James Madison University (website).
• Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, Chaminade University (website).
• Jahangir Piara, Organization for Peace and Development, Pakistan (website).
• Daniel L. Smith-Christopher (Coordinator), Loyola Marymount University (website).
• Koozma J. Tarasoff, Center for Doukhobor Studies (website).

Nonkilling Urban Studies Research Committee

• Gabriela Barbosa, Dortmund University of Technology (website).
• Charlotte Boisteau, Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne - EPFL (website).
• Pablo Dreyfus, Viva Rio - Small Arms Control (website).
• Dolores Foley, University of Hawaiʻi (website).
• Kem Lowry, University of Hawaiʻi (website).
• Luis de la Mora, Federal University of Pernambuco (website).
• Robert Muggah, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (website).
• Rose Osinde Alabaster, UNHABITAT, Nairobi (website).
• Edinilsa Ramos, National Public Health School - Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (website).
• Paulo Castro Seixas, Fernando Pessoa University (website).