January 2010. Since May 2007 PE Body Count, an initiative started by local journalists, has been tracking every homicide occurrence in the North-Eastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco, one of the most violent regions in the country. The project maintains a website which is updated on a daily basis including the names, personal details and circumstances of every victim of killing, also feeding them into an statistical database and virtual counter.

December 2009. The Brazilian edition of Nonkilling Global Political Science, by Glenn D. Paige, was launched on December 22 at the Auditorium of the Federal University of Pernambuco Press, in Recife (Pernambuco). All top university officials and distinguished guests from the city and state governments attended.

December 2009. Nonkilling will be the focus of the University of Hawai'i course "Aggression, War and Peace" (ANTH/PACE 345) during the first semester of 2010. The course is lectured by Professor Leslie E. Sponsel, Director of the Ecological Anthropology Program and member of the Nonkilling Anthropology Research Committee.

November 2009. The Brazilian Institute for Nonkilling (Instituto Brasileiro do Não matar, INAM) was formally registered and presented this month as a nonprofit civil organization. The Institutes's goal is to increase the understanding and application of the nonkilling approach in Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries.

November 2009. The Center for Global Nonkilling will organize a panel nonkilling political science on December 1-2 at the Prince of Songkhla University in Haad Yai, Southern Thailand. The panel follows the title of the Thai translation of Glenn D. Paige's book "Nonkilling Global Political Science", "rát-tà-sàat mâi kâa" (Political Science does not kill!).

November 2009. The Citizens Initiative for a Nonkilling India started on November 13 a ten-day intense program of activities as part of its Nonkilling India Campaign. The program marks the concluding phase of the year-long Observance of the Centenary of Gandhi's seminal work "Hind Swaraj", beginning on November 13 (the day Gandhi started writing "Hind Swaraj") and concluding on November 22 (the day in which it was concluded).

November 2009. Nobel Peace Laureate Máiread Maguire and CGNK Governing Council Chair Glenn D. Paige where invited to participate in a debate organized by the German Center for the Advancement of Nonkilling with the title "Nonkilling - Perspectives for Nonkilling Societies".

October 2009. The Global Nonkilling Observatory, a joint initiative of the Center for Global Nonkilling and the Itajaí Valley University (Univali), Brazil, was presented on October 29, during the Fifth Scientific Research Seminar on International Relations ("V Seminário de Pesquisa Científica em Relações Internacionais").

October 2009. Colombian musician Juanes (promoter of the "Peace Without Borders" concerts) addressed the participants of the First Global Nonkilling Leadership Academy in the final session celebrated in Honolulu, Hawai'i, on October 16, after two intense weeks of training. Juanes urged the young leaders to take the nonkilling message to their countries and to work on the ground toward a killing-free world.

October 2009. The Center for Global Nonkilling has been invited to join the Organizing Comittee of the 2009 World Education Forum on Technical and Professional Education and will be represented by Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos, who will introduce the concept of nonkilling and the most recent CGNK publications.