Letter 1

Dear Professor Hania Kryszewska,

This is an invitation to form part of the Nonkilling Linguistics Research Committee at the Center for Global Nonkilling (CGNK). The Center is a non-profit organization focused on research, education and action projects aimed at promoting change toward the measurable goal of a killing-free world. The Center draws from over 15 years of experience of its predecessor, the Center for Global Non-violence and appeal by the World Health Organization (Violence and Health Report, 2002) and the Nobel Peace Laureates' Charter for a World without Violence.

Nonkilling Research Committees on various areas of knowledge are being established as consultative bodies to promote the advancement of interdisciplinary scientific evidence on the possibilities of nonkilling societies. These Committees will provide creative input on research agendas, academic events, courses and publications. You can find a list of existing Committees at: www.nonkilling.org/node/7

Your actual involvement as a member is flexible, ranging from simply supporting the idea with your name to actively participating in the development of publications and events. As an example, in 2010 the Center will publish a collective volume on "Nonkilling Linguistics", as part of the Committees specific projects. We would also like to invite you to consider the possibility of contributing toward this publication. You are also welcome to suggest names of other scholars that you consider could have interest in this initiative. For further details on the Center and nonkilling, please take time to visit the following websites (still partially under construction):

Center for Global Nonkilling: www.nonkilling.org
School of Nonkilling Studies:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/School:Nonkilling_studies
Global Nonkilling Channel at YouTube: www.youtube.com/globalnonkilling

Yours sincerely,

Joám Evans Pim
Communication, Global Team Leader
Center for Global Nonkilling (CGNK)
P.O. Box 12232, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96828
www.nonkilling.org

Letter 2

Dear Ms Hania,
Thank you for mailing again. (…)
I am now browsing the new HLT edition. It is really nice.
So many trainers and teachers scattered around everywhere, in every country !
Until we speak again,
I wish you a great summer ahead (or what’s left of it !), without worries and with professional satisfactions !
Yours sincerely
Consuela

Letter 3 a

Hi Hania and Mario.

So glad my newsletters are read and liked!

They're having some surprising and welcome reactions. For example, the Avellino Anglo-Italian Association, which died out some years ago, have decided to set up again and organise events for teachers, after several past members reading the newsletters. Wow! What a world the web creates! I prefer the personal one-to-one reactions that e-mails get to blogs or websites. Well, perhaps that's because my aging fingers refuse to get as technological as I would really like.

I'm enjoying all you publish in HLT, and my own teaching benefits greatly from the ideas.

Take care.
Roy Boardman

Letter 3 b

Dar Roy,

Your words of praise for HLT are weighty. I feel, given you breadth, depth, length and volume as a leader of the European humanistic movement in language teaching. Your contributions to HLT are among the ones I have least trouble remembering ... especially vivid was a piece by the students ( mainly teachers) who had worked with you in the same group for 25 years!!!

Mario

Letter 4

Hi Hania,

(…) I am really happy to be one of your Magazine article writers. (…)
Best wishes
Jack

Letter 5

(…) PS: Is there a wee bit too much Mario stuff in the mag, maybe....?
Might it be good to get stuff from Tomlinson and Matsuhara, Maley, McCarthy, Carter, Mike Rundell (who wrote a brilliant corpus column over 5 years, Grundy, Wingate (good to make him feel less marginalised by Pilgrims.)

Areas with not too much stuff in HLT might be literature and business English.

Mario

Letter 6 a

Subject: making up for lost time

Can't be with you this year for your conference but I'll make your day by saying that I've started to seriously read your HTL webzine (starting from year 1) and ETprof (also starting from Issue no.1) as, to date, I've done little more than flick through both. Isn't it wonderful when the brain finally says 'enough is enough' and it actually gets things done?!

Best wishes

Jane

Letter 6 b

Dear Jane,

Happy reading of HLT.....there is simply too much there and some of it very good.

Warmly yours,
Mario

Letter 7

Dear Hania,

My book Nourishing Nonkilling: a Poetic Plantation was launched in Honolulu, June 28,by the Center for Global Nonkilling. It is a collection of 60 poems, all centered on Nonkilling. The book can be downloaded, FREE, at this site:

http://nonkilling.org/node/18

Please share the information. Two of the poems are focused on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. There is also a poem on Language users for Nonkilling.

All the best in your important humanizing work,

Francisco Gomes de Matos