{"id":50189,"date":"2014-12-01T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=50189"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:27:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:27:15","slug":"the-mobilization-of-nonkilling-a-needed-global-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/12\/the-mobilization-of-nonkilling-a-needed-global-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mobilization of Nonkilling: A Needed Global Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When terrorists kill people who are praying,<br \/>\nIt is also Humankind that those killers are slaying.<\/p>\n<p>When terrorists kill people who are spiritually meditating,<br \/>\nIt is also Humankind that those killers are exterminating.<\/p>\n<p>When terrorists kill people who are praying anywhere and everywhere, in\u00a0a church, a temple, or in a synagogue,<br \/>\nIt is also to the history of human killing that those killers are adding another abominable epilogue.<\/p>\n<p>____________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. 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 one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 <\/em>Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights)<em> and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Brasil Am\u00e9rica (www.abaweb.org). <\/em><em>He can be reached at fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When terrorists kill people who are praying,<br \/>\nIt is also Humankind that those killers are slaying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50189","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=50189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}