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	Everyone can be A Center for Global Nonkilling an article by Tony Dominski The First Global Nonkilling Leadership Forum was convened in Honolulu, Hawaii, November 1-4, 2007. The meeting was organized by the nonprofit Center for Global Nonviolence and exemplified the Center's motto: "Everyone can be a center for global nonkilling." Over 30 participants from 20 countries of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America, and the Pacific attended. Forum Co-chairs were Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Dr. Balwant (Bill) Bhaneja, University of Ottawa. The Forum was co-sponsored by the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii, and the Mu Ryang Sa Buddhist Temple of Hawaii. The participants called upon the UN General Assembly and educators to include the right not to be killed, and the responsibility not to kill others, as part of universal human rights education. The conference also explored development of affiliates of the Center for Global Nonviolence in Haiti, Nigeria, and Great Lakes Africa (DR Congo, Burundi, Rwanda). The meeting arose from reader responses to Glenn Paige's book "Nonkilling Global Political Science" (Gandhi Media Centre, Xlibris 2002, 2007). The book advances the thesis that it is possible for humans to stop killing each other. This thesis is supported by the conclusion of the World Health Organization WHO, World Report on Violence and Health (2002) that human violence is a preventable disease. Paige's book was reviewed twice by CPNN, once by myself and once by Bill Bhaneja, who was one of the conference co-chairs It is being translated into 26 languages with 13 already published.		DISCUSSION Question(s) related to this article: Are nonkilling societies possible?, If yes, what should we be doing? If not, what will happen to us? * * * * * LATEST READER COMMENT: Promoting Communication Literacy through Principles of Compassion for a Nonviolent Planet by Vedabhyas Kundu At a time when there are conflicts at different level around the world, promoting COMMUNICATION LITERACY through principles of compassion is a necessity so as to bring people together and collectively work for global peace. Compassion and feelings for others are essential ingredients for human unity. Swami Vivekananda had said, “Do you feel for others? If you do, you are growing in oneness. If you do not feel for others, you may be the most intellectual giant ever born, but you will be nothing; you are but dry intellect, and you will remain so.” Indeed in today’s contemporary society when there are so much of differences and intolerance, if we can’t promote feeling and compassion for others, we cannot promote oneness amongst one another. There seems to be crisis of values and little respect for each other’s ideas and perspective. For a large number of people, the self seems to be the supreme and are agnostic about the feelings of others. Anger and hatred towards each other seems to be found in abundance. All these will lead to greater conflicts and ill feelings amongst fellow beings. Swami Vivekananda pertinently underlines that howsoever one may acquire intellectual power, without compassion for others, one is nothing. . ...more.
This report was posted on December 18, 2007.