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Killing-Free Societies Are Possible
un articulo por Joám Evans Pim
For nearly three years I have been working with a team of other professionals to help reduce killing in the world through the Center for Global Nonkilling (CGNK) based in Hawai'i. Like all new adventures we need friends, encouragement and help spreading the word.
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Visionary cold warrior and professor emeritus Dr. Glenn Paige presented a clear case in "Nonkilling Global Political Science" that it is possible to achieve killing-free societies. The Center builds on his work to make a measurable difference over time toward that end. Here are just a few of our accomplishments so far:
- Working with affiliates and colleagues in Haiti, Africa, South America and Asia to develop policies and initiatives to prevent killing, especially those with impacts on women and children
- Graduating 27 young leaders from our first two Leadership Academies, and working with them to eliminate killing and its causes in their 19 countries
- Publishing academic research with contributions from nearly 600 researchers at over 250 prestigious institutions
I am especially pleased that many of the recent initiatives featured on our website (www.nonkilling.org), are taking place in Africa. These include:
- An article, “African Initiatives Toward Killing-Free Societies,” highlighting the work of several of the CGNK's affiliate organizations and Leadership Fellows in Africa was just published by Gregory Bourne in “Conflict Trends.” He is the Co-Director of the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) in Durban, South Africa
- CGNK has supported the Mozambican nonprofit FOMICRES (Mozambican Force for Crime Investigation and Social Reinsertion) to develop a new national initiative under the title "Nonkilling is Possible". The initiative will be focused on the collection and destruction of weapons and will be launched on June 16.
- In Kenya, three women who attended the CGNK Nonkilling Leadership Academies in 2009 and 2010 are working together to create a prototype “peace village,” imagined during an Academy visioning exercise.
- The Glenn Paige Nonkilling School in the village of Kazimia, Sud Kivu, DR Congo -- established by the Great Lakes Africa nonprofit humanitarian organization Mleci (Bemba language for “Nurturing” like mother’s care) – has been accepted by GlobalGiving.org in Washington D.C. in a contest for permanent listing for charitable donations.
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DISCUSSION
Pregunta(s) relacionada(s) al artículo :
Are nonkilling societies possible?, If yes, what should we be doing? If not, what will happen to us?
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