| Type | Non-governmental organization |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1988 Honolulu, Hawai‘i |
| Location | Honolulu, Hawai‘i (international) |
| Key people | Glenn D. Paige, Chair |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Focus | Nonkilling |
| Method | education, action, advocacy, research, innovation |
| Website | www.nonkilling.org |
The Center for Global Nonkilling, originally known as the Center for Global Nonviolence, is an international non-profit organization focused on the promotion of change toward the measurable goal of a killing-free world. The Center for Global Nonkilling is a member of the World Health Organization's Violence Prevention Alliance.[1]
The history of the Center for Global Nonkilling started in 1988 in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, as the "Center for Global Nonviolence Planning Project", an exploratory initiative set up at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute of Peace, University of Hawai‘i, by Professor Glenn D. Paige.[2] Its purpose was to be a creative facilitator of research, education-training, and action in the form of problem-solving leadership for nonviolent global transformation. During this phase the Center was responsible for a series of publications [3] and events in partnership with the University of Hawai‘i.
In 1994 the Center for Global Nonviolence was finally established as an independent nonprofit, focusing on research and networking. Notable outcomes where the publication of Nonkilling Global Political Science[4] in 2002 and the celebration of the "First Global Nonkilling Leadership Forum" in November 2007, Co-chaired by Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire. A major outcome from the Forum was the acknowledged need and demonstrated support for establishing a successor Center for Global Nonkilling, along with an associated Global Nonkilling Leadership Academy. This would come about in 2008 with the transition from Center for Global Nonviolence to Center for Global Nonkilling.[5]
On its official website, the Center for Global Nonkilling defines its mission as the following:
| “ | Small, creative, and catalytic in partnership with individuals and institutions locally and worldwide—by combining and sharing the spirit, science, skills, arts, institutions and resources of all—the Center for Global Nonkilling can contribute to new and renewed leadership for change towards a just, killing-free world in which everyone has the right not to be killed and the responsibility not to kill others. The means to achieve this mission include:
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