Introduction

Last update: 2024-04-17

We, the editors of this book, are Partners for a Global Management of Suffering. Our website is aboutsuffering.org. We act as a group aiming at an overall level to regulate the occurrences of consciousness that we consider “too” unpleasant.

We created this webbook on 25 November 2023 and are keeping it up to date because we need to identify and coordinate what we do together.

The book attempts to summarize a wide variety of information from a wide range of sources.

Part 1: Contributions from a Discipline Specialized in the Study of Suffering deals with what we retain, in order to develop our global management, from a new discipline devoted to understanding and controlling the phenomenon of suffering.

Part 2: Contributions from Various Disciplinary Fields examines the activities in several knowledge areas that provide means of developing the kind of management of suffering we envision.

Part 3: Contributions from Suffering-Focused Initiatives looks at what we adopt as a part of our global management from some contemporary endeavors dealing with suffering as a specialty.

Overall, the role of this book is to set out in detail the measures that we, as partners, are putting into practice to prevent excessive suffering systematically.

For more information, you can join us in our Google document called Administering the Project, or write to admin@aboutsuffering.org.