Petra Kelly

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A Book that Forces Us to Rethink

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(Foreword of "Nonkilling Global Political Science", German edition, pp 11-12)

When Johan Galtung introduced me to Glenn Paige in the Bundestag in Bonn in June 1984, at a hearing of the Greens concerning social defense, I did not have a clue about that he would soon invite me and also Petra Kelly, who had initiated the hearing, to Honolulu to his university. There he introduced me to the struggles of the natives against land theft and cultural deprivation, to the struggle of the Quakers and some church groups against the militarization of the islands, to the nonviolent actions against atomic submarines near Pearl Harbour and to peaceful Korean temple visitors. This is what I associate with his book, a book which demands a distinct reorientation in political science and in the social sciences regarding questions of violence, the prevention of wars, and public health. Another thing I connect with the book is his friendly personality, which helps build networks in the peace movement, as well as the results of his work, his research and teachings in the past forty years.

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Petra Kelly in the book "Nonkilling Global Political Science" (ed. 2009)

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0. Mentioned in the Acknowledgements as Glenn Paige and Petra Kelly have met.

1. "In the murderous twentieth century it can be seen in courageous contributions to nonkilling global change by the Christians Tolstoy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Hindu Gandhi, the Muslim Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the Jew Joseph Abileah, the Buddhist Dalai Lama, the Green Petra Kelly, and countless others, celebrated and unsung." p. 42