Makings of a Nonkilling World

by Marshall Sheen (intro.)

In Tamkang Journal of International Affairs (淡江國際研究), Vol. 10, No. 4 (April 2007), pp. 1-88.

Summary: Must killing be a modus vivendi in human affairs? Is nonkilling too far-fetched? Most of us believe that killing is not desirable. Yet humankind continues to kill incessantly, ruthlessly. Why? In the pages that follow, Glenn D. Paige, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawai’i and the founder and president of the nonprofit Center for Global Nonviolence, cuts to the chase and takes us through the gamut of problems and issues relating to killing/nonkilling, and provides us with extensive documentation and arguments from various perspectives.

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