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    • Educating Youth for Nonkilling: a checklist, by Francisco Gomes de Matos

    How can today's YOUTH be educated for Nonkilling? An open-ended checklist:

    BY LEARNING TO

    1. study, reflect on, and discuss core principles from the universal traditions of HUMAN RIGHTS, PEACE, NONVIOLENCE and from the emerging NONKILLING APPROACH.
    2. navigate the conceptual CONTINUUM PEACE.....NONVIOLENCE....NONKILLING and to see the three processes as intercomplementary, interdependent, interrelated
    3. become appliers of Human Rights, in a Nonkilling Perspective as suggested in the texts on economic, social, political, cultural, linguistic, intercultural, and linguistic rights posted on the CGNK site (cf. Learning Materials). Such applications would be focused on YOUTH´s ways of being and doing in their homes and in the communities where they live.
    4. imagine a KILLING-FREE country (their own) and a KILLING-FREE WORLD in which youth will do their share (to fulfil their global responsibility) in building,supporting,and sustaining their roles as NONKILLING PLANETARY CITIZENS
    5. use their language(s) --first,second,foreign...-- peacefully, nonviolently, nonkillingly. This would call for a thorough transformation in existing Language-in-Education Programs, so as to go beyond Learning to Communicate Well and enter the hitherto little experienced territory of Learning to
    Communicate for the Well-Being and Dignity of Humankind.
    6. organize YOUTH DICTIONARIES FOR NONKILLING, in as many languages as possible. Participating youths would compile their own nonkilling vocabularies and phraseologies to be systematically presented in
    electronic reference works designed by YOUTH for YOUTH.
    7. use their writing competence and produce texts --prose, poetry -- aimed at enhancing,strengthening the contributions of Global Youth to understanding across all cultures
    8. create approaches to LIVING NONKILLINGLY inspired by the work of Glenn D.Paige
    9. adapt Glenn D.Paige´s seminal book Global Nonkilling Political Science to the cognitive-cultural conditions of YOUTH all over the world. Such adapted editions would be classroom-tested ,according to guidelines established by a Committee appointed by CGNK,and YOUTH organizations
    10. create Internet resources which probe the educational potentialities of this YOUTH CHARTER FOR A NONKILLING WORLD.