CGNK at 15th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Barcelona

The Center for Global Nonkilling has been invited to participate at the 15th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates that will be held on November 13-15, in Barcelona. This Summit will 2015 Summit will be focused on the humanitarian challenges and political tensions caused by the desperate plight of refugees throughout the world. CGNK Director Joám Evans Pim will attend the Summit where, together with CGNK Honorary Sponsor and 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate Máiread Maguire.

CGNK is a “Friend of the Nobel Peace Laureates Summits” and has been supportive of its historical “Charter for a World without Violence” that, in its 13th Principle, “call[s] upon all to work together towards a just, killing-free world in which everyone has the right not to be killed and responsibility not to kill others”. The Charter ends with the following statement: “To address all forms of violence we encourage scientific research in the fields of human interaction and dialogue, and we invite participation from the academic, scientific and religious communities to aid us in the transition to nonviolent, and nonkilling societies.”