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We seek capability to serve through three major programs in cooperation
with individuals and institutions throughout the world.?These are (1) launching voyages of nonviolent scientific
and cultural discovery, (2) responding
to requests for nonviolent problem-solving
consultation, and eventually (3)
contributing to needs for nonviolent leadership and citizen competence
through establishment of a Global
Nonviolence Leadership
Academy.
Our approach will be to carry out small innovative projects that can be
taken up by institutions and individuals with large-scale implementational capabilities.
1. Voyages of Discovery
Scientific and Applied Explorations.?Characteristically a
small group of pioneering persons in various disciplines, professions, and
vocations will be convened to explore advances along the frontiers of
nonviolent knowledge and action that can be made to improve the quality of
global life.?Among explorations to be undertaken are:
Nonviolence in spiritual and philosophical traditions
Neuro-bioscience and nonviolence
Nonviolence and gender relations
Nonviolence and education
Nonviolence and economics
Nonviolence and the environment
Nonviolence and communications
Nonviolence, science, and technology
Nonviolence and the arts
Nonviolence and the professions
Nonviolence and sports
Role of the military and police in nonviolent social transformation
Nonviolent futures
Nonviolence and leadership
Discoveries will be shared widely and successive advances encouraged.
Cultural Explorations.?Small, locally based, exploratory
conferences will be assisted to enhance understanding of past, present, and
possible future manifestations of nonviolent capabilities of cultures and
countries throughout the world.?Among explorations to be undertaken
will be those of nonviolence in:
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Hawai'i
Middle East
Pacific
Russia and Eurasia
Scandinavia
United Nations member states
Unrepresented nations and peoples
Discoveries will be combined to provide periodic comprehensive overviews
of nonviolent global human potential.
2. Problem-Solving
Consultation
The Center seeks capability to respond to requests for nonviolent
problem-solving assistance and to carry out special projects of its own in
major fields such as violence prevention, economic justice, human rights,
environmental viability, and universal problem-solving cooperation.
Some Consulting Requests
To assist creation of local adaptations of the Center in South America
and South Asia.
To assist planning a series of international conferences on nonviolence
education and training in North America, South America, and Africa.
To strengthen the nonkilling ethic among traditional chiefs in Africa and among rival factions in the Middle East.
To make nonviolent contributions to transition to new political science
in countries of the former Soviet Union, to nuclear disarmament in South
Asia, and to the peaceful unification of Korea.
Pilot Projects Initiated by the Center
A dialogue between Japanese and American World War II war resisters (Tokyo, 1991).
Research on histories and leadership of two nonviolent political
parties, The Fellowship Party (Britain)
and The Sarvodaya Party (India),
(2000-).
Hawai'i
advisory workshop on leadership for nonviolent change (2003).
3. Global Nonviolence Leadership Academy
The Academy's goals are to facilitate mutual learning among leaders
variously engaged in nonviolent problem-solving service to society and to
enable them to benefit from new discoveries in the field of nonviolence.
Short term programs will enable younger leaders to share experiences, to
learn from senior leaders, and to benefit from advances in the theory and
practice of nonviolent local and global problem-solving.
The plan to create the Global Nonviolence Leadership
Academy draws upon planning, programme participation, and evaluative consulting
experience in the establishment of the United
Nations University's
International Leadership Academy
located at the University
of Jordan. It also
draws upon research for The Scientific Study of Political Leadership (1977)
and Nonkilling Global Political Science (2002).
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