“Nonkilling Education” book launched

March 24, 2018June 18, 2018 Joám Evans Pim

The Center for Global Nonkilling has launched on March 20, 2018, its latest academic publication, Nonkilling Education, which includes an interdisciplinary collection of thirteen essays that follow the 2015 Vasa Conference on Education for Killing-free societies. For this reason, the book launch was also organized at Åbo Akademi University’s Program in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research with the presentations of the 2017/18 graduate class.

The authors of this book affirm the basic precepts of a nonkilling perspective and see education as playing a significant role in bringing about a nonviolent, killing-free and peaceful world. In this volume, collectively, they identify some of the fundamental ideas of nonkilling education and put forth proposals for what such approach would look like in pedagogical practices, curriculum, the skills and competencies that should be taught in schools.

The volume is a publication of CGNK and is co-edited by CGNK Director Joám Evans Pim and Prof. Sofía Herrero Rico, Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace at Jaume I University. A PDF version can be downloaded for free from CGNK’s website and paperback copies can be ordered at $20 from Amazon.com.

The 281 page volume includes the following contents:

Contents

Foreword, by Joám Evans Pim and Sofía Herrero Rico
Vasa Statement on Education for Killing-free Societies
Introduction, by B. Jeannie Lum

Part 1. Questioning Educational Traditions

Learning to Live Together: Exploring Nonkilling from the Peace Education Reconstructive-Empowering Approach, by Sofía Herrero Rico
Educating for Global Citizenship and Fostering a Nonkilling Attitude, by Emiliano Bosio
A Nonkilling Mathematics Education?, by Ubiratan D’Ambrosio

Part II. Nonkilling Ethics in Education

An Educational Model for Teaching a Nonkilling Ethic, by Todd Junkins and Darcia Narvaez
Recognition and Compassion at Stake: Towards a Nonkilling Education, by Irene Comins Mingol and Sonia París Albert
Not Unlearning to Care: Healthy Moral Development as a Precondition for Nonkilling, by Eveline Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger

Part III. Communicating Nonkillingly

A Call for Collaborative Dialogue Within Peace Education, Nonkilling Linguistics, and Early Childhood Education, by Lauren Chamberlain
Nonkilling Education for Peaceful Conflict Transformation: A Philosophical Study, by Sonia París Albert

Part IV. Case Studies and Implications

A Future Without Killing: Laying the Foundations for a Nonkilling Generation, by Shelley Hymel, Lina Darwich, Alexander Gist and Sonja van der Putten
A Nonkilling Education proposal for the Public Educational System in El Salvador, by Amaral Palevi Gómez Arévalo

Afterword