{"id":258617,"date":"2024-04-08T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=258617"},"modified":"2024-04-03T05:38:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T04:38:23","slug":"the-day-weapons-refused-to-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/the-day-weapons-refused-to-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day Weapons Refused to Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Nonkilling Society<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Weapons_refused_kill-francisco-matos-scaled.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-258620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Weapons_refused_kill-francisco-matos-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Weapons_refused_kill-francisco-matos-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Weapons_refused_kill-francisco-matos-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Weapons_refused_kill-francisco-matos-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Weapons_refused_kill-francisco-matos-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Weapons_refused_kill-francisco-matos-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Weapons_refused_kill-francisco-matos-scaled.jpg 1810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><i><\/i><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>________________________________________________<\/i><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"pt-PT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/francisco-gomes-de-matos.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/francisco-gomes-de-matos.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"pt-PT\"><i>Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. <\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>He has degrees in Languages, Law, and Linguistics. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco where he is active in the Dom H\u00e9lder Camara Human Rights Commission. He is a co-founder of ABA Global Education, one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 <\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i> and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Brasil Am\u00e9rica (<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/TRANSCEND\/T%20M%20S\/TO%20POST\/Original%20Languages\/www.abaweb.org\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>www.abaweb.org<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>). <\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"pt-PT\"><i>He can be reached at <\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/TRANSCEND\/T%20M%20S\/TO%20POST\/Original%20Languages\/fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"pt-PT\"><i>fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"pt-PT\"><i>.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nonkilling Society<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":84401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1056],"class_list":["post-258617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nonviolence","tag-nonkilling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258617","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=258617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258623,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258617\/revisions\/258623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}