Articles by Joám Evans Pim

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Peace Portraits: Pathways to Nonkilling
Review by  Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

29 Apr 2022 – The Center for Global Nonkilling has just released its latest book, co-published with Creighton University, which artfully explores the intersection between faith, ethics and politics in modern times.

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Youth, Violence and Peace: Experiences from Cali and Medellín
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Oct 2021

3 Oct 2021 – The text, originally in Spanish, is published by Universidad de Medellín in a joint research project with the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (Cali) in Colombia. The book can be downloaded for free here.

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“Nonkilling Anthropology” Book Launched
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Sep 2021

31 Aug 2021 – The CGNK has launched today its latest academic publication, Nonkilling Anthropology: A New Approach to Studying Human Nature, War, and Peace, by Professor Leslie E. Sponsel. Inspired by the work of CGNK’s founder Glenn D. Paige, this book explores the mutual relevance of anthropology, nonkilling and peace studies–and their synergy.

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San Marino Declared 1st Nonkilling Country in the World
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2020

13 Mar 2020 – In a statement at the Human Rights Council on March 12, Christophe Barbey, CGNK’s representative at the United Nations in Geneva, declared the Republic of San Marino to be the first nonkilling country. To our knowledge, there were during the last five years no murders, no suicides and no deadly traffic accidents in the country.

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Nonkilling Paradigm
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2020

21 Dec 2019 – Springer academic publishers has just released The Nonkilling Paradigm: For World Peace and Enlightenment by Dr. Katyayani Singh and Dr. Anoop Swarup. The book addresses the human civilizational ethos and explores the concept of the nonkilling paradigm concerning human dignity, human rights, affirmative nonkilling, positive peace and the advancement of human existence.

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«Give Nonkilling a Chance» Book Released in Delhi
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2019

7 Sep 2019 – Give Nonkilling a Chance: Are Nonkilling Societies Possible? edited by Prof. Anoop Swarup and dedicated to late Prof. Glenn D. Paige, with contributions from across the world, was released at Gandhi Smriti, Delhi on 31 Aug 2019.

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When the Messenger Is the Killer
Joam Evans Pim – Huffington Post, 9 Dec 2013

Video games escalate lethal socialization among younger generations. Military psychologist Dave Grossman pointed out how violent video games “act just like police and military simulators, providing conditioned responses, killing skills and desensitization, except they are inflicted on children without the discipline of military and police training.”

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WHO 2014 Violence Prevention Meeting Report
Joam Evans Pim – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2013

The Center for Global Nonkilling, a member of the World Health Organization’s Violence Prevention Alliance, participated Nov. 11-15 in the 6th Milestones in a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention Meeting, organized in Mexico City by the country’s ministries of Health, State and Foreign Affairs.

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Nonkilling or 9mm Tacos for Breakfast
Joam Evans Pim – Huffington Post, 18 Nov 2013

Mexico’s government has teamed up with the World Health Organization’s Violence Prevention Alliance to look at stopping violence, particularly lethal violence, before it happens using the WHO’s definition of violence as “a preventable disease.”

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