A Nonkilling Paradigm for Political Scientists, Psychologists, and Others (Review)
In Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol. 9, Issue 4 (February 2003) , pp. 371-372.
Excerpt: The familiar word, nonviolence, is almost comforting in its generality. The word nonkilling, however, confronts and startles us with its specificity. Being less familiar, it challenges us to find out where it came from and how its author means it to be used. Glenn Paige, in Nonkilling Global Political Science, proposes that his discipline adopt as a goal the promotion of a nonkilling world, that is, a world in which people do not kill each other. This is not straightforward, because traditional political science is violenc-accepting and killing-tolerant in several ways. Paige aims to provoke a nonkilling reconceptualization of political science and, by extension, psychology, law, economics, and other disciplines. (…)
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