School of Nonkilling Studies launched
Center Staff has been engaged in promoting a School of Nonkilling Studies based at Wikiversity. The School serves as an interdisciplinary learning platform focused on the development of knowledge and skills for a killing-free world. Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in at all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning.
Even though it ’s it is still in the initial phases, the School is currently developing three learning unique learning programs:
- “Interdisciplinary Program on Nonkilling Studies”;
- “Program on Nonkilling Spiritual Traditions”; and
- “Program on Nonkilling Leadership Development”.
The first of them program draws mainly from contributions for the Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm volume, to be published by CGNK in 2009. The program includes courses such as “Nonkilling Political Science”, “Nonkilling Anthropology”, “Nonkilling Linguistics”, “Nonkilling Philosophy”, “Nonkilling Human Biology”, “Nonkilling Historiography”, “Nonkilling Psychology”, “Nonkilling Physics” or “Nonkilling Mathematics”, with many additional offerings in the future. plenty more to come.
Authors include university professors from the University of Florence (Italy), University of Hawaiʻi (USA), Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), Jaume I University (Spain), University of Queensland (Australia), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France), University of New York New York University, NYU USA), Guru Nanak Dev University (India), Campinas State University (Brazil) and Arizona State University (USA).
The Program on Nonkilling Spiritual Traditions already features courses tackling nonkilling in mayor major world religions and communities of faith such as Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism or Voodoo.
On the other hand The third offering is the Program on Nonkilling Leadership Development which brings important nonkilling lessons from leaders as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Petra Kelly, Guillermo Gaviria and Ronald Mallone.
In the near future, CGNK will be developing a study guide so participants can follow different learning itineraries that lead leading to a certificate of completion accomplishment. This These initial programs will help develop development a group of alumni learned in nonkilling who will stimulate active participation as they study as those enrolled and will be encouraged have to expand and develop School’s knowledge base and contents and advanceing nonkilling knowledge.
The School’s courses are also available from a variety of Wikiversity faculties and departments, including the School of Physics and Astronomy, the School of Political Science, the School of Anthropology, the School of Linguistics, the School of Philosophy, the School of Biology, the School of History, the School of Psychology, the School of Mathematics and the School of Theology.
