“Nonkilling Korea: Six Culture Exploration” Now Available for Download
The Center for Global Nonkilling has just made available for free Download in PDF its book Nonkilling Korea: Six Culture Exploration, which includes a selection of eight chapters from the “Nonkilling Korea: Six Culture Exploratory Seminar” convened by the Asia Center/Seoul National University and the Center for Global Nonkilling in Seoul during August 18-19, 2010. The book has been simultaneously published in two separate editions by CGNK and the Seoul National University Press. The CGNK edition can be downloaded for free or ordered online here. The SNU Press edition can also be ordered through their website.
In contrast to academic and policy studies that concentrate on political-military-economic aspects of Korea since Division and the Korean War, authors in this book seek to discover nonkilling cultural features in South and North Korea, America, China, Japan, and Russia that can contribute to realization of a unified Nonkilling Korea – A Korea in which no Koreans kill other Koreans, no foreigners kill Koreans, and no Koreans are sent abroad to kill. Discoveries reported here provide confidence that nonkilling cultural values and capabilities can be found in all six societies that can benefit each and all in progress toward the measurable goal of a killing-free Korea and world. Readers are invited to join in further explorations.
The book is edited by Glenn D. Paige and Chung-Si Ahn, and includes a Foreword by former ROK ambassador to the United States Professor Sung Chul Yang. Contents include: “Introduction” by Glenn D. Paige; “Spiritual and Practical Assets of Korean Nonviolence” by Jang-seok Kang; “Nonkilling in North Korean Culture” by Glenn D. Paige; “From Nonkilling to Beloved Community” by Michael N. Nagler and Stephanie N. Van Hook; “Possibilities of a Peaceful Nonkilling China” by Dahua Tang; “Nonkilling in Japanese Culture” by Mitsuo Okamoto and Tamayo Okamoto; “Evolution of the Idea of Nonkilling in Russian Culture” by Tatiana Yakushkina; “Nonkilling in Russian Culture” by William V. Smirnov and “Conclusion” by the editors.
