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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    • Vision

    Imagine a world in which people understand they do not have a right to take the life of another human being. Imagine a world where a culture of peace is more dominant than a culture of war. Imagine a world which treats the tendency of the small percentage of people willing to kill as a disease that can be cured. Imagine a world in which political or economic rationales for killing are simply not accepted by global society. Imagine a world in which killing fueled by religious extremism is replaced by a more universal understanding of the reverence for life found in every faith. Imagine a world in which generations of animosity among different families, clans, tribes and states is replaced with a willingness to forgive and find a common bond of friendship rather than destruction.

    Imagine a world in which humans no longer kill each other. Is a nonkilling world possible? Amidst continued killing following the violent 20th century, the Center for Global Nonkilling arises out of new understanding that a killing-free world is possible. It is possible for humans to stop killing each other from homicide to genocide, terrorism and mass murder in war. A killing-free world is a measurable goal. The methods and means of realization are open to infinite human creativity.

    The project to develop the Center for Global Nonkilling for discovery and advancement of nonkilling human capabilities is akin to the 15th century voyages of discovery and the 20th century project to place a man on the moon. In each case the formerly impossible, and even unthinkable, was transformed into reality by a combination of faith and commitment, assemblage of available knowledge and skills, creation of new knowledge, invention of new technologies, training, and institutional development—all made possible by providers of moral and material support with vision and courage to share the failures and successes of discovery.

    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.