Glenn Durland Paige (June 28, 1929 – January 22, 2017) was an American political scientist. He was Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaiʻi and Chair of the Governing Council of the Center for Global Nonkilling. Paige is known for developing the concept of nonkilling,For other authors on nonkilling see 비살생 정치학과 지구평화운동 (For Nonkilling Global Political Science. Glenn D. Paige and his Scholarship) , 한배호...[등저]; 안청시 편, Seoul:, 2004; G.D. Paige’s Nonkilling Thesis: A Vision of New Politics , Balwant (Bill) Bhaneja, 2005; De-escalating Media Language of Killing: An instructional module , Beverly Ann Deepe Keever, In Conflict and Communication Online, Volume 6, Number 1 (2007), pages 1–7; A Nonkilling, Nonviolent World for the 21st century , Mairead Maguire, 9th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, 2007; Nonkilling Global Political Science , Balwant Bhaneja, Peace Magazine, January–March (2005), page 27; A Nonkilling Paradigm for Political Problem Solving , Balwant Bhaneja, Asteriskos: Journal of International and Peace Studies, Volume 1 (2006), pages 273–277; Special Issue on Glenn Paige and Nonkilling Political Science , Journal of Peace and Gandhian Studies, Volume 5, Number 1, 2004 ; Is a nonkilling society possible? , Paschal Eze, West Africa, Issue 4366 (March 10–16, 2003), pages 40–41 ; Paradigm for Political Scientists, Psychologists, and Others, Charles E. Collyer, Peace and Conflict (2003), pp. 371–372, ; , S. P. Udayakumar, Frontline (India), Vol. 19, Issue 24, (November 23 – December 6, 2002). his studies on political leadership,Mainly through his essay Significant reviews include: Landmark among Decision-Making and Policy Analyses and Template for Integrating Alternative Frames of Reference: Glenn D. Paige, "The Korean Decision", James A. Robinson, Policy Sciences, Volumes 32, Number 3 (September 1999), pages 301–314. ; Political Leadership as a Causative Phenomenon: Some Recent Analyses, Chong-Do Hah and Frederick C. Bartol, World Politics, Vol. 36, No. 1 (October 1983), pages 100–120. ; The Scientific Study of Political Leadership by Glenn D. Paige, John C. Courtney, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Volume 13, Number 2 (Jun. 1980), pages 393–395. ; The Scientific Study of Political Leadership. by Glenn D. Paige, Francis E. Rourke, The Journal of Politics, Volume 41, Number 1 (February 1979), pages 262–263. ; The Scientific Study of Political Leadership by Glenn D. Paige, James S. Bowman, The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Apr. 1979), pp. 307–309. and the study of international politics from the decision-making perspective with a case study of President Harry S. Truman's decision to involve the United States in the Korean War.See Significant reviews include: The Korean Decision, June 24–30, 1950. by Glenn D. Paige, Ernest Gilman, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 1968–1969), pages 608–609. and The Korean Decision, June 24–30, 1950 by Glenn D. Paige, Betty Glad, The Journal of American History, Volume 55, Number 3 (December 1968), pages 686–687. . Also see Glenn's own critique of his work published as “On Values and Science: The Korean Decision Reconsidered” in the American Political Science Review (December 1977)
Biography The son of a YMCA social worker, Glenn Durland Paige was born on June 28, 1929, in Brockton, Massachusetts, in the northeastern part of the United States known as New England. He grew up in Rochester, New Hampshire, with summers in Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
He served in the U.S. Army (1948–52) as recruit, private, corporal, sergeant, second lieutenant (OCS), first lieutenant and later captain (Army Reserve, 1956–60). A Korean War veteran (1950–52), he served as communications officer at the 10th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group, attached to the First Republic of Korea Infantry Division, September–December 1950.
He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy (1947), Princeton University (A.B., Politics, 1955; International Politics; Chinese and Russian languages), Harvard University (A.M., East Asian regional studies, 1957; Korean Studies, Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages) and Northwestern University (PhD political science, 1959; interdisciplinary behavioral science curriculum). After teaching at Seoul National University's Graduate School of Public Administration (1959–61), and Princeton University (1961–67), he taught at the University of Hawaiʻi (1967–92). There he introduced new courses and seminars on political leadership (1967–92) and nonviolent political alternatives (1978–92), besides lecturing introduction to political science and world politics. He helped to found the University of Hawai‘i Center for Korean Studies in 1972, the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and its Center for Global Nonviolence Planning Project (later to become the Center for Global Nonkilling).
The journey from soldier to scholar to founder with others of the Center for Global Nonkilling can be told in terms of three discoveries.
The first began with a case study with interviews of how President Harry S Truman and other leaders engaged the United States in the Korean War in which Paige had served during 1950–52. This became a doctoral dissertation published as a book entitled The Korean Decision: June 24–30, 1950 (see also Study of the Korean War Decision-Making)
Subsequent comparative study of divided Korea’s divergent development since 1945 led to discovery of the creative potential of political leadership for social change and a call to make this a special field for research, teaching, and service in the academic discipline of political science. This was published in The Scientific Study of Political Leadership (New York: The Free Press, 1977). This "discovery" of the importance of creative political leadership for global problem-solving contributed to thinking that led to creation of the United Nations University/International Leadership Academy at the University of Jordan in 1995 through the pioneering efforts of Prime Minister Dr. Abdelsalam al-Majali under the leadership of King Hussein who announced its establishment in New York during the UN's 50th Anniversary ceremonies. Glenn D. Paige served as participant-observer and evaluator of the First UNU/ILA Leadership Programme in Jordan, Israel, Palestine, and Egypt in 1997.
The second discovery was of nonkilling as a basic value for political science and life. Glenn D. Paige's awakening to nonkilling occurred during 1973–74 and has led to more than a quarter century of discovery and re-education resulting in the thesis of Nonkilling Global Political Science. This unexpected shift by a conventionally trained, violence-accepting political scientist, whose doctoral dissertation justified war and threat of war in Korea, perhaps can be attributed in part to a process of "cognitive dissonance" in which one's values and perceptions of reality come in conflict. Having participated in and justified a Cold War crusade for freedom and peace in Korea (values) combined with opposition in 1973 by the United States and ROK governments to a University of Hawai‘i initiative to invite North Korean scholars to visit Honolulu for a peaceful cultural exchange (non-peace reality) one day produced a strongly felt value shift expressed in three words of an inner voice, "No more killing!" (see photograph above). Consequently, this value shift led both to heightened perceptions of lethal realities and to search for realistic nonkilling alternatives.
As a result, he produced a critical book review by him of his book on the Korean War, which essentially had been a scientific apologia for war. This was published as "On Values and Science: The Korean Decision Reconsidered" in American Political Science Review. Such an author review was unprecedented in the history of the APSR since 1906.
The third discovery followed projection of the logic of nonviolent critical analysis applied to his own scientific work to critique the violence-accepting assumptions of the discipline of political science as a whole. After 28 years of research, teaching, and travel to discover foundations for a new nonkilling discipline the results were published in 2002 as Nonkilling Global Political Science In 2007 it led to convening the First Global Nonkilling Leadership Forum in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, November 1–4, 2007, and by 2014 the book had been translated into 30 languages.
Social and scientific contributions Nonkilling Nonkilling refers to the absence of killing, threats to kill, and conditions conducive to killing in human society. Even though the use of the term in the academic world refers mostly to the killing of human beings, it is sometimes extended to include the killing of animals and other forms of life. This is also the case for the traditional use of the term "nonkilling" (or "non-killing") as part of Buddhist ethics, as expressed in the first precept of the Pancasila,Stewart McFarlane in Peter Harvey, ed., Buddhism. Continuum, 2001, page 187. Buddhist Scriptures in Pali language have explicit reference to nonviolence and nonkilling: monks should not only themselves abstain from killing but should also refrain from encouraging other people to kill themselves (Vinayapitaka III: .71–74) and in similar terms throughout world spiritual traditions. Significantly, "nonkilling" has also been used recently in the "Charter for a World without Violence" approved by the 8th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates."To address all forms of violence we encourage scientific research in the fields of human interaction and dialogue and we invite participation from the academic, scientific and religious communities to aid us in the transition to nonviolent, and nonkilling societies".
In analysis of its causes, nonkilling encompasses the concepts of peace (absence of war and conditions conducive to war), nonviolence (psychological, physical, and structural), and ahimsa (noninjury in thought, word and deed). Not excluding any of the latter, nonkilling provides a distinct approach characterized by the measurability of its goals and the open-ended nature of its realization. While the usage of terms such as "nonviolence" and "peace" often follow the classical form of argument through abstract ideas leading to passivity, killing (and its opposite, nonkilling), it can be quantified and related to specific causes by following a clinical perspective (prevention, intervention and post-traumatic transformation toward the progressive eradication of killing).Antonino Drago, "Nonkilling Science", in Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm, edited by Joám Evans Pim. Honolulu: Center for Global Nonkilling, 2009. Glenn D. Paige's contributions, namely the volume Nonkilling Global Political Science but also many of his articles dating back from the 80s, significantly developed the usage of this term among the academic world. Currently, the Center for Global Nonkilling hosts a series of Nonkilling Research Committees bringing together over 700 scholars from more than 300 universities.
In 2021 an annual "International Nonkilling Day" was begun on June 28, Dr. Page's birthday. The first global colloquium was virtual, and titled: “Creating an Affirmative Nonkilling World”.
The Scientific Study of Political Leadership