''Nonkilling Global Political Science'' is a 2002 book written by
political scientist
Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...
Glenn D. Paige. In his book, Paige challenges the violence-accepting assumptions of the discipline of political science as a whole. Paige introduces the concept of
nonkilling
Nonkilling refers to the absence of killing, threats to kill, and conditions conducive to killing in human society. It traces its origin from the broader concept of ahimsa or nonviolence, one of the central tenets of Indian religions, namely, Ja ...
, which refers to the absence of killing, threats to kill, and conditions conducive to killing in human society.
The book has been translated into over two dozen languages and had led to convening the First Global Nonkilling Leadership Forum in
Honolulu
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, Hawai‘i, 1–4 November 2007. The book spurred the creation of the
Center for Global Nonkilling, a United Nations special consultative status nongovernmental organization, and has subsequently led to a body of scholarship, including dedicated issues in peace and conflict study journals.
See also
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Nonviolence
Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition. It may come from the belief that hurting people, animals and/or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and it may refer to a general philosoph ...
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World peace
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Various relig ...
References
Further reading
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A Nonkilling, Nonviolent World for the 21st Century', Mairead Maguire, 9th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, 2007
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', Balwant Bhaneja, ''Peace Magazine'', January–March (2005), pp. 27
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A Nonkilling Paradigm for Political Problem Solving', Balwant Bhaneja, ''Asteriskos: Journal of International and Peace Studies'', Vol. 1 (2006), pp. 273–277
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Special Issue on Glenn Paige and Nonkilling Political Science', ''Journal of Peace and Gandhian Studies'', Vol.5, No. 1, 2004
*''A Nonkilling Paradigm for Political Scientists, Psychologists, and Others'', Charles E. Collyer, ''Peace and Conflict'' (2003), pp. 371–372,
2002 non-fiction books
Political science books
Nonviolence
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