Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm

Nonkilling is an approach that affirms the possibility of a society where killing, threats to kill, and conditions conducive to killing are absent. This perspective offers a distinct approach, characterized by the measurability of its goals and the open-ended nature of its realization. The open challenge to the widespread acceptance of lethality and lethal intent trespasses the limits of an ideology for social change entailing a new scientific model based on the refutation of killing-accepting science. This volume brings together 24 authors and 14 disciplines (Anthropology, Arts, Biology, Economics, Engineering, Geography, Health Sciences, History, Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology and Sociology) to seriously consider the prospects for the realization of nonkilling societies and to challenge each discipline’s role in the necessary social and scientific transformation.