New CGNK book published: Nonkilling Relationships

The Center for Global Nonkilling has launched today its latest academic publication, Nonkilling Relationships, edited by Professor Sofía Herrero Rico and CGNK Director Joám Evans Pim. The book is made up of 6 chapters and aims to better understand how to sustain nonkilling interpersonal relationships, from intimate parnerships, to parenting, to neighbourhoods and wider societal settings, including in multicultural/multiethnic settings. It does so by incorporating a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, psychology, political science, philosophy and education.

Building upon Glenn D. Paige’s societal quest for a nonkilling future, the contributions in this volume seek to understand how relationships are critical to build societies with no killing, threats to kill or conditions and conditions conducive to killing. Through different perspectives, contributing authors explore the importance of human contact, interconnectivity, affectivity, recognition, communication, conviviality, resilience, and a sense of belonging to the community, but also restraint, ritualization and reconciliation.

The book includes the following chapters, in addition to an introduction by the editors: “Nonkilling Relationships: A Peaceful Alternative to Digitization”, by Sonia París Albert; “Dialogic Models for Nonkilling Relationships”, by Benjamin A. Peters;  “Imagining a Nonkilling World as a Learning Community”, by Pearl Chaozon Bauer, Egidio de Bustamante and Jennifer M. Murphy; “The Power of Resilience in Nurturing Nonkilling Peaceful Relationships”, by Sofía Herrero Rico; “How the Nordic Peace System Nurtures Nonkilling Interstate Relationships”, by Geneviève Souillac and Douglas P. Fry; and “The Role of Ritualization and Restraint in Nonkilling Relationships”, by Joám Evans Pim.

A PDF version can be downloaded for free from CGNK’s website and paperback copies can be ordered at from Amazon.com.