New CGNK publications launched on International Peace Day
The Center for Global Nonkilling presented two new publications celebrating the September 21st International Peace Day: Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm and a re-edition of the World Health Organization’s World Report on Violence and Health.
The first volume brings together 24 authors and 14 disciplines (Anthropology, Arts, Biology, Economics, Engineering, Geography, Health Sciences, History, Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology and Sociology) to seriously consider the prospects for the realization of nonkilling societies and to challenge each discipline’s role in the necessary social and scientific transformation. Edited by Joám Evans Pim, the volume argues that the open challenge to the widespread acceptance of lethality and lethal intent brought forward by nonkilling trespasses the limits of an ideology for social change entailing a new scientific model based on the refutation of killing-accepting science. The volume can be downloaded for free at CGNK’s website books section.
The second volume includes the full summary of the the World Health Organization’s historical “World Report on Violence and Health” (2002), that concluded that human violence is a “preventable disease.” It identified the belief that violence is inevitable in the human condition as the main obstacle to progress and grounded confidence for change in provision of contrary science-based knowledge, education, and recommendations for action by decision makers and the public in all sectors of local, national, and global society. Considered as a key document in violence-prevention, a request for re-edition was made to the World Health Organization following CGNK’s goal of making it available to an ever widening circle of readers and leaders who can join in taking steps toward a killing-free world.
In connection with UN International Peace Day and the State of Hawai’i Peace Day, CGNK also hand-delivered 76 copies of Nonkilling Global Political Science to all members of the Hawaii State Legislature (25 senators and 51 representatives), together with lists of reader comments and translations published or in progress. This is part of the wider effort to promote the “Nonkilling Hawai’i” initiative, that is looking at islands as a model for measurably reducing and eventually eliminating killing in the world.
