Inspiring opening quotation: “The only certain security is the absence of the will to kill", Glenn D. Paige, Nonkilling Global Political Science, 2009, p. 100.

Additional inspiring quotation: “(Security is killed) when effective security alternatives are not provided against lethal actions at local, national and international level” (Paige, 2009, p. 99).

The right to security is also killed when ...

Governments fail to assure citizens of their right to economic, educational, environmental, (inter)cultural, linguistic, political, psychological, and social security;

nuclear weapons continue to be built;

there is an increase in unnatural deaths of human beings caused by the use of light weapons;

there is economic exploitation of human beings, especially of people in developing countries;

there is oppression of women in the workplace;

the training and hiring of security personnel by public organizations (banks, hospitals,
schools, stadiums, etc) continues to increase at an exponential pace everywhere;

diplomats are not treated with dignity during security negotiations;

disarmament continues to be a hard-to-achieve global goal;

the arms race continues to threaten peace everywhere;

The right to security is also killed, as long as …

Humankind continues to kill the environment;

there are many homes that contain guns;

there are obstacles to the establishment and sustainability of killing-free societies;

the right to bring up one’s family in security is not ensured by national constitutions;

in Human Rights Programs and Projects, Human Security is not given

the same importance as Justice, Peace, Dignity;

other emerging types of security (electronic, for instance) are not probed by experts in science and technology as regards their contribution to planetary well-being and interdependence;

This checklist is open-ended: readers are kindly asked to add their own examples and to reflect on ways of helping their families, communities, countries honor, promote and protect the right to security, individually and collectively.

May this also be a plea for an Education for Nonkilling Security to be discussed in varied for a across cultures and the implementation thereof to become a reality.

May citizens everywhere become minimally knowledgeable about their governments’ policies and practices aimed at maintaining peace and security and may all teachers and students in Political Science, International Law, Diplomacy and related areas contribute to globally shared knowledge on Peaceful, Nonviolent, Nonkilling Security.