April 2010. The Center for Global Nonkilling and Cascadia Publishing House have released the English translation of "Diary of a Kidnapped Colombian Governor", by Guillermo Gaviria Correa, Governor of Antioquia (Colombia), who was kidnapped and murdered by the FARC during a failed rescue attempt in May 5, 2003. The edition is launched on the seventh anniversary of his death and commemmorates Gaviria's commitment to nonviolence as a political strategy.

April 2010. The Citizen’s Initiative for a Nonkilling has just completed a series of lectures held at Mahatma Gandhi University (Kottayam, Kerala) on March 29-31 as part of it’s Violence-Free India Campaign (Himsamukth Bharat). The series title was “The Problem of Violence and Terror and Citizen’s Initiatives to Combat Them”. On the final day participants examined the nonkilling thesis and some of CGNK’s projects as a source for action and ideas to build a killing-free India.

March 2010. The third issue of the Global Nonkilling Working Papers series has just been released, including the four papers presented at the "Nonkilling Global Political Science: A Critical Evaluation" panel, held at the 21st World Congress of Political Science in Santiago, Chile, 12-16 July, 2009. Besides the works of Piki Ish-Shalom, Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Yoon-Jae Chung and Joám Evans Pim, this issue features a report by panel Chair Balwant Bhaneja.

March 2010. A new research group on Nonkilling Studies has been established at ResearchGATE, a collaboration tool and social networking site aimed at scientific researchers from all disciplines of science. The new group offers a range of web applications including file-sharing, discussion board, calendar for academic events, etc. Members can also create their personal blog within the network.

March 2010. The Center for Global Nonkilling has released a short six-minute video introduction of its First Global Nonkilling Leadership Academy, convened in Honolulu, Hawai'i from October 4 to 16, 2009. The Academy was organized by CGNK to provide a select group of promising young leaders with a life changing experience related to the real and much needed possibilities of a world where killing is no longer taken for granted.

February 2010. The first two issues of the Global Nonkilling Working Papers series have been released, featuring a debate between renown primatologists Richard Wrangham and Robert Sussman (with Joshua Marshack) in Issue #1 and an essay on domestic violence by sociologist Laura L. Finley in Issue # 2. Both can be dowloaded for free at the Center's website or purchased in print for US$ 5,50.

February 2010. Nonkilling will be present at the 2010 International Peace Research Association Conference to be held in Sidney, Australia, July 6-10. Among other interventions, the Commission on Art and Peace has included the proposal by Olivier Urbain on "The Art of Nonkilling: The Roles of the Arts in Making a Nonkilling Society Possible".

January 2010. Every day, new information is emerging on the brain, and how it works. New discoveries are occurring regularly as new frontiers in understanding are further explored. This will only increase as brain research continues and becomes more sophisticated. The purpose of this research initiative is to explore what and how new advances might expand our understanding of the brain as it relates to killing and nonkilling. Read the report.

January 2010. The Center for Global Nonkilling has been accepted as a formal participant of the World Health Organization's Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), a network of WHO Member States, international agencies and civil society organizations working to prevent violence. VPA participants share an evidence-based public health approach that targets the risk factors leading to violence and promotes multi-sectoral cooperation.

January 2010. The Center for Global Nonkilling (CGNK) is seeking ways to reduce killing in the world and help people realize that it is possible to change the prevailing attitudes and conditions which lead to killing. One essential strategy is to help leaders realize the possibilities and support their efforts to incorporate nonkilling principles and practices into their spheres of influence.