{"id":142765,"date":"2019-09-16T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=142765"},"modified":"2019-09-23T09:58:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T08:58:55","slug":"give-nonkilling-a-chance-book-released-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/09\/give-nonkilling-a-chance-book-released-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abGive Nonkilling a Chance\u00bb Book Released in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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7 Sep 2019 – Give Nonkilling a Chance: Are Nonkilling Societies Possible?<\/em> edited by CGNK Governing Council Chair Prof. Anoop Swarup and dedicated to late Prof. Glenn D. Paige, with contributions from across the world, was released at Gandhi Smriti, Tees January Marg, Delhi, on August 31, 2019. The 400-pages collection of essays that is already available online<\/a> was presented by Prof. Swarup during a discussion and release program that gathered 250 participants.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Bharat Ratana Honorable Shri Pranab Mukherjee, former President of the Republic of India released the book in a session also joined by Prof. Dr. N. Radhakrishnan, Chairman, Gandhi Peace Mission and CGNK Honorary Sponsor;\u00a0 Dr. Sankar Kumar Sanyal, President of Harijan Sevak Sangh set up by Mahatma Gandhi in 1932; Prof. Dr. Ramesh Kumar, Secretary, Harijan Sevak Sangh; Dr. Y P Anand, former Chairman, Railway Board and ex Director, National Gandhi Museum; Dipankar Srigyan, Director, Gandhi Smriti and Darshan; Dr A K Merchant, National Trustee Lotus Temple & Baha\u2019i Community of India; Jiza Joy, Coordinator Editor, Konark Publishers; and Rajiv Bhai of GSDS, who conducted the program.<\/p>\n

Give Nonkilling a Chance<\/em>\u00a0includes both original contributions, such as the editor\u2019s introduction developing the concept of \u201caffirmative nonkilling\u201d, and a selection of chapters published over the past decade by the members of the various Nonkilling Research Committees in the Nonkilling Studies series<\/a>, including\u00a0Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm<\/em>,\u00a0Nonkilling Societies<\/em>,\u00a0Nonkilling History: Shaping Policy with Lessons from the Past<\/em>,\u00a0Engineering Nonkilling: Scientific Responsibility and the Advancement of Killing-Free Societies<\/em>,\u00a0Nonkilling Geography<\/em>,\u00a0Nonkilling Futures: Visions<\/em>,\u00a0Nonkilling Linguistics: Practical Applications<\/em>,\u00a0Nonkilling Psychology<\/em>,\u00a0Nonkilling Media<\/em>,\u00a0Nonkilling Security and the State<\/em>,\u00a0Nonkilling Spiritual Traditions<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Nonkilling Education<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Joam Evans Pim is director of the Center for Global Nonkilling and a member of the TRANSCEND Network<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 nonkilling.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":142766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,45,59,142,67,208],"tags":[229,120,487,866,504,642,291,91,1056,444,119,109,287,985,380,292,126,118,172,75],"class_list":["post-142765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","category-activism","category-nonviolence","category-education","category-reviews","category-literature","tag-activism","tag-conflict","tag-human-rights","tag-indigenous-rights","tag-international-relations","tag-literature","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-nonkilling","tag-nonviolence","tag-peace","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-social-justice","tag-solutions","tag-un","tag-violence","tag-war","tag-west","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}