Global Nonkilling Day 2026

TMS PEACE JOURNALISM, 6 Jul 2026

Bill Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service

“Nonkilling is a way of being. A daily sunrise. An intention to anticipate, prevent, stop and reduce killing, violence in all their lethal forms.”
– Thomas Fee, 2025

28 Jun 2026 – It is wonderful that amidst these tumultuous times we are here together to mark another Global Nonkilling Day!

It was in 2012 our beloved Nonkilling paradigm pioneer Prof. Glenn D. Paige spoke about this Day, reminding us of the immense work to be done towards realizing his vision of a nonkilling world. The NGO Center for Global NonKilling (CGNK) founded by him covers Discovery, Research and Action in that direction.

Amazing that despite meager resources, how our commitment towards that goal continues — one step at a time. Most of the action has been driven by one’s passion as a civil society volunteer, grounded in our conscience, values and ethos of No More Killing.

Everyone of us on Google here today in one way or another has been engaged in this nonkilling discovery and action over the past year

My special thanks to our two younger NonKilling colleagues: Dr. Roland Joseph and Prof. Jocelyn Wright.

Our Haitian-American colleague Dr. Roland invited me last July to give a keynote address on Nonkilling Global Political Science for the convocation ceremony at Haiti’s Institute of Management, Governance, and Political Studies (IGGEP) in Jacmel. Good news emanating from the event is creation of the Caribbean Center for Nonkilling-Peace and Conflict Studies (CCNPCS) at the Institute. Kudos Dr. Roland. 

Professor Jocelyn Wright teaches English in Korea. Jocelyn and I are a currently working on a book, tentatively entitled, Anthology of Essays on Nonkilling IN Literature, with original contributions from 14 international scholars. We are hoping the book to be ready by late Fall.

The Nonkilling Day message that Prof. Paige delivered in 2012, declares:

A true “International Peace Day to become measurable as A Day for Global Nonkilling has to be, a day for humans to stop killing each other from homicide to war. 

To prepare for A Day for Global Nonkilling, leaders and people of each country need to ask themselves, WHAT ARE OUR COUNTRY’S CAPABILITIES FOR NONKILLING? 

These may be found in spiritual faiths, traditional practices, nonviolent heroes and heroines, nonkilling expressions in music and arts, and successful or attempted policies for disarmament, abolition of the death penalty, and recognition of conscientious objection to killing in military service. One fact all countries share. Most people in them do not kill and never have.”

The recent manned Artemus 2 space voyage around the other side of the Moon and its safe return to Earth was a consciousness altering event for me, giving us unique perspective of our exceptional planet that has stood out in the galaxy for billion of years. The space voyage showed images about the beauty and fragility of our living planet in the cosmos, that as far as we know, currently this humanoid planet is the only place where the life and living exists in a delicate balance wrapped in a fragile bubble surrounding it. Time has come to cherish and protect it.

Our sustainable planet, like a Gaia, takes on all human abuse inflicted on it, while exposing our feebleness and fragility, challenging us to understand and experience oneness, beyond the walls of our narrow tribal, caste, class, religious, and national identities.

The world has its own pace of change, but there is no limit on how we can individually evolve and mature in our ethics and principles to help expedite a societal transformation.

Ultimately, NonKilling’s alpha to omega description is about preserving steadfastly our planet for future generations. In Paige’s Nonkilling, personal ethics is only one element of nonkilling. His multifaceted paradigm encompassing our alpha to omega is related to both our personal and public spheres.

Paige’s vision for Center for Global Nonkilling(CGNK) included a possibility of initiating a Mega Global Nonkilling Society project  of the same magnitude and imagination, as multibillion dollar Manhattan project that lasted six years with world’s first atomic bombs.(p.40-41). Professor Paige believed that “our present nonviolent knowledge potential is functionally comparable to the state of atomic physics in 1939, and that today there was enough scientific evidence of non-violent human capabilities which –if systematically integrated and advanced–holds the possibility of empowering nonkilling human self-transformation.”

Prof. Paige contends: Prevention of violence at the local, national, regional, and global level has to be one of the top objectives of any governance system, including information needed on self-directed violence and collective violence. The progress toward a nonkilling society is ultimately tied to all nation-states– building, accepting, and diffusing a comprehensive global Nonkilling Ethic and educating the public about it. An educational task needs to be aimed at the citizenry that exposes the long chain of killing and how to reverse it. (Paige: 74-75). ]

In conclusion

The Center of Global Nonkilling website shows both the scope and extent of what has been accomplished since CGNK’s creation by resolute volunteers from all spheres of life.

What the Nonkilling Paradigm needs most is dedication, commitment, and a finer understanding of Nonkilling principles and paradigm to nurture it.

Ultimately Nourishing Nonkilling Paradigm is about creating a right understanding of the content, building Nonkilling infrastructures, and a service leadership.

May the Nonkilling Spirit of Professor Glenn D. Paige prevail!

No More Killing! And a Happy Nonkilling Day to All!

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Dr. Bill (Balwant) Bhaneja is a former Canadian science diplomat, a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, and author of six books and scholarly papers on politics and science. He holds a PhD in science policy from UK’s Victoria University of Manchester, currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Center for Global Nonkilling in Honolulu-Hawai’i of which he is a founding member, and produces the Nonkilling Arts Research Committee (NKARC)  Newsletter. A peace activist, his recent books include:  Troubled  Pilgrimage: Passage to Pakistan (TSAR/Mawenzi,  Toronto, 2013);  Quest for Gandhi: A Nonkilling Journey (Center for Global Nonkilling, Hawaii, 2009); and in collaboration with Vijay Tendulkar, Two Plays: The Cyclist and His Fifth Woman (Oxford University Press (India), New-Delhi, 2006). He lives in Ottawa, Canada. Email: billbhaneja@rogers.com

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