Nonkilling studies

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School of Nonkilling Studies

"Research and Education for a Killing-free World"

The School of Nonkilling Studies is an interdisciplinary learning platform focused on the development of knowledge and skills for a killing-free world. Nonkilling, as presented by Paige (2002; 2007), refers mainly to a form of society where killing, threats to kill and conditions conducive to killing are absent. This model entails a deep transformation of those societal premises routed in the wide acceptance of violence (in all of its forms) but, consequently, also the refutation of mainstream killing-accepting science, from politics to biology. Following this dynamic, the School includes both training and research projects, with a permanent flow of contents and feedback from both approaches.

The educational curriculum follows the logic of nonkilling analysis and challenges engagement in discovery of principles and processes for effective problem-solving action. The School's programs explore the causes of killing, nonkilling, transitions, and hypotheses about the characteristics of nonkilling societies. From this perspective, historical developments of institutions and processes, locally and globally, are examined. Problem-solving challenges are posed—such as homicide, democide, genocide, and disarmament; economic lethality; human rights atrocities; ecological biocide; and destructive divisiveness versus cooperation across diversity. Opportunities to develop skills in modes of problem-solving engagement are offered: research, teaching, servant leadership, and critical communication. On these foundations individual and group projects to solve problems and develop skills are pursued and presented (Paige, 2002: 151).

As for the research agenda, the main premise is that killing must move from the violence-accepting periphery to the center of analytical and problem-solving. Therefore, efforts concentrate in understanding the causes of killing; the causes of nonkilling; the causes of transition from killing to nonkilling and vice versa; and the characteristics of completely killing-free societies. Such knowledge is needed to assist identification of nonkilling alternatives and transformative actions within and across the converging zones of the funnel of lethality: neuro-biological, structural, cultural, socialization, and killing zones (Paige, 2002:150).

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Courses

Program on Nonkilling Spiritual Traditions

NKCR 101 Nonkilling in Christianity
NKCR 102 Ethics/Nonkilling/Spiritual/Islam
NKCR 103 Ethics/Nonkilling/Spiritual/Hinduism
NKCR 104 Ethics/Nonkilling/Spiritual/Buddhism
NKCR 105 Nonkilling in Sikhism
NKCR 106 Nonkilling in Judaism
NKCR 107 Nonkilling in Baha'ism
NKCR 108 Nonkilling in Confucianism
NKCR 109 Ethics/Nonkilling/Spiritual/Jainism
NKCR 110 Nonkilling in Shintoism
NKCR 111 Nonkilling in Taoism
NKCR 112 Ethics/Nonkilling/Spiritual/Voudou
NKCR 113 Nonkilling in Zoroastrianism
NKCR 113 Ethics/Nonkilling/Spiritual/Humanism

Notice Board

Certificate on Nonkilling Studies

The Center for Global Nonkilling will be offering a Certificate on Nonkilling Studies to those who complete Program requirements. These will include a series of readings to be organized in a learning resource (soon!) plus course work that will either create or expand nonkilling contents focusing on a new aspect to be included at the School of Nonkilling Studies or the significant development of one or more entries.

The School in the News

"Mundo sem morte matada", by Thereza Halliday (Diario de Pernambuco, Brazil, 2/03/2009) (Brazilian blog, in Portuguese)
"Die School of Nonkilling Studies", by Anis Hamadeh (Newsletter des Zentrums zur Förderung des Nichttötens, Germany, June 2009) (dead link, readable at internet archive, in German.
"Dialogue for a World Without Killing", by John Folk-Williams (Cross x Collaborate, United States, August 2009) (dead link? 15:54, 4 October 2014 (UTC))

Help needed

The School of Nonkilling Studies requires experienced Wiki users to edit and refine some of its contents. Courses at the Interdiscipinary Program on Nonkilling Studies are based on MsWord files and some information (references, quotes, italics, ...) could have been lost during the conversion into Wiki articles. Volunteers should have an interest for nonkilling and/or disciplinary areas and are encouraged to expand existing contents with their own contributions. For further information please send an email.

Nonkilling Barnstar

As a form of rewarding Wikiversity and Wikipedia users who have significantly contributed to expand and develop nonkilling knowledge, the School of Nonkilling Studies has created a Nonkilling Barnstar (Barnstar 17). It is the custom to reward Wikipedia contributors for hard work and due diligence by extending an award called a "barn star", as a continuation of the "barn raising" metaphor.

Nonkilling Barnstars have been awarded to:

JWSchmidt (February 2009)
HenkvD (March 2009)
Jondel (May 2009)
Harvzs (May 2009)
XJamRastafire (June 2009)
Hugo.arg (June 2009)
Relly_Komaruzaman (June 2009)
OC_Ripper (June 2009)
DCDuring (June 2009)
Ghaly (June 2009)

Publications and Resources

Basic Reading: Nonkilling Global Political Science

Nonkilling Global Political Science, Glenn D. Paige, 2002; 2009, ISBN 9780982298305

Other related books

Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm, Edited by Joám Evans Pim, 2009, ISBN 9780982298312
Killing in War, Jeff McMahan, 2009, ISBN 9780199548668
Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler, the Holocaust and War, Richard A. Koenigsberg, 2009, ISBN 9780915042234
Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life, James D. Slack, 2009, ISBN 9781412810210
Global Nonkilling Leadership First Forum Proceedings, Edited by Glenn D. Paige and Joám Evans Pim, 2008, ISBN 9781880309117
Consistently Opposing Killing, Edited by Rachel M. MacNair and Stephen Zunes, 2008, ISBN 9780313352782
Why Do They Kill?: Men Who Murder Their Intimate Partners, David Adams, 2007, ISBN 9780826515681
Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress: The Psychological Consequences of Killing, Rachel M. Macnair, 2005, ISBN 0595347649
Towards a Nonkilling Filipino Society: Developing an Agenda for Research, Policy and Action, Edited by Jose V. Abueva , 2004, ISBN 9719254351
World Report on Violence and Health, World Health Organization, 2002, ISBN 9241545615
Who Count as Persons?: Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing, John F. Kavanaugh, 2001, ISBN 0878408371
An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth-Century Warfare, Joanna Bourke, 2000, ISBN 0465007384
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Dave Grossman, 1996, ISBN 0316330116
When Men Kill: Scenarios of Masculine Violence, Kenneth Polk, 1994, ISBN 0521468086

Documents, Articles and Papers

For a comprehensive list of articles visit: http://www.nonkilling.org/node/19

Human Rights and Nonviolence – Basis for a Nonkilling World, Mairead Maguire, 9^th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, 2008.
Charter for a World without Violence, World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, 2007.
A Nonkilling, Nonviolent World for the 21st Century, Mairead Maguire, 9^th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, 2007.
G.D. Paige’s Nonkilling Thesis: A Vision of New Politics, Balwant (Bill) Bhaneja, 2005.
A Nonkilling Paradigm for Political Scientists, Psychologists, and Others, Charles E. Collyer, Peace and Conflict (2003), pp. 371-372, ISSN 10781919
The Myth of Man the Hunter, Man the Killer and the Evolution of Human Morality, Robert W. Sussman, Zigon. Journal of Religion and Science (1999), pp. 453-471.
"To leap beyond yet nearer bring": From war to peace to nonviolence to nonkilling, Glenn D. Paige, The International Journal of Peace Studies (1997), ISSN 10857494

Media Resources

Nonkilling in Reference Works

"Nonkilling: A New Paradigm" in International Encyclopedia of Peace, Oxford University Press, 2009.
"Nonkilling Political Science" in Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, 2nd Edition, Elsevier, 2008, ISBN 9780123695031
"Nonkilling Global Society" in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers 2004.

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