Global Nonkilling Index launched

Katyayani Singh, a Doctoral Candidate and Research Associate at Jagran Lakecity University in Political Science, has just published an article co-authored by CGNK’s Chair Prof. Anoop Swarup proposing a new “Global Nonkilling Index as a Critical Measure of Human Development and Progress”. The article appeared in the September 2018 issue (volume 35, issue 3) of the International Journal on World Peace.

As the journal’s editorial explains, the article proposes a “Global Nonkilling Index” that “reflects an advanced method of indexing peace by looking at “killing” beyond traditional murder rates, to includes suicide, capital punishment, and battlefield death rates.” The purpose of the index, according to the authors is to “show that despite economic prosperity of nations, killings in different forms continue undermining the peace, prosperity, and development”. The journal actually presents the results for Global Nonkilling Index based on the available data for 2015.

The article is part of the doctoral work of Katyayani Singh, who had also presented the results on an earlier survey on the acceptability of killing and the views on nonkilling at the 29th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, held in India last year (August 16-19, 2017). A video of her presentation is featured below.