Are killing-free societies possible? Evidence suggests that by working with committed organizations, leaders and individuals like you we can signficantly reduce and eventually eliminate human killing. This goal belongs to everyone, across political, religious or ethnic affiliations. The development of truly civil societies, and nothing less than the future of humankind, depends on our joint success.

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    • Communities of Nonkilling

    ‘Communities of Nonkilling’ is a new CGNK initiative, which grows out of our experience with the Nonkilling Hawai‘i project. We are asking leaders and organizations around the globe to assess and build the nonkilling capacity in their own communities by connecting and cultivating their spiritual, artistic, policy, action, research, communications, as well as education and training resources. Through research and discovery a baseline can be determined. Through education and training, nonkilling knowledge can be passed onto the community. Through policy and action, nonkilling can become part of community leadership. By identifying monitoring ambassadors, new initiatives can be shared locally and globally by means of regular reporting. Once a community has reached the status of a killing-free community, a CGNK certification will be conferred. Your community will enjoy the prestige of recognition that has the potential to favorably impact quality of life, investments, and global recognition that this community would be a worthwhile place to visit.

    If you would like to involve your community in the 'Communities of Nonkilling' project, you can contact Katherine Li by e-mail at KLi@nonkilling.org.

    Nonkilling Hawai‘i

    The Nonkilling Hawai‘i project is envisioned as a working model for global nonkilling that will include research/discovery, education/training, and policy/action. To explore the concept of Nonkilling Hawai‘i as a working model, a group would be assembled to explore Hawai‘i’s killing-related issues which might fall into the falling arenas: suicide, domestic killings, the military, the police and homicide. By drawing together researchers currently doing work in these areas and organizations involved with reducing killing in Hawai‘i, the group can begin to develop an index on the types of killing, the numbers killed, the reasons behind killing as well as the reasons why others opt not to kill – given similar circumstances. As suggested by World Health Organization research, that violence is a preventable disease, it makes sense to invite participation from the Department of Health and UH School of Public Health.

    After documenting what works and what does not work in partnership with the Hawai’i network of leaders and researchers involved, the initiative will develop and test potential strategies to train, educate, and affect policy through action to ultimately eliminate killing in Hawai‘i. Appropriate mechanisms to measure impacts of these strategies will be developed to track progress.