Gandhi and War by George Paxton

Posted on May 14, 2012 by gandhifriends

Gandhi and War By George Paxton Professor Anthony Parel in his Gandhi Foundation Annual Lecture 2011, Pax Gandhiana (which can be read by clicking the link at the end of this article), asks to what extent Gandhi’s nonviolence is compatible with the coercion which any state inevitably exercises. He claims that “coercion based on consent [...]

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What Happened at The Gandhi Foundation Multifaith Celebration 2012

Posted on February 8, 2012 by gandhifriends

The Gandhi Foundation Multifaith Celebration Review at St Ethelburga’s on 30th January 2012 By Mark Hoda, Chair & Trustee of The Gandhi Foundation It was really heartening to see such a large audience gather at St Ethelberga’s on a cold January evening. They heard  though provoking reflections on the environment and sustainability from a range [...]

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Doing Small Things With Great Love – by Bill Palethorpe

Posted on December 19, 2010 by gandhifriends

With as always (but particularly in our age of 24 hour news coverage) so many negative stories making the headlines is it any wonder that people increasingly feel powerless? Some decide not to get up in the morning whilst others turn to a hedonistic life. Well friends, as many Gandhi followers know, we all have [...]

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Te Whiti o Rongomai: A Forerunner of Gandhi – by Helena Nielson

Posted on May 28, 2009 by gandhifriends

Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Gandhi are all well known as advocates of peace, but not many people, even in New Zealand, have heard of Te Whiti, a Maori leader who practised nonviolent resistance against the British Empire two generations before Gandhi. It is unclear whether Gandhi was inspired by Te Whiti’s philosophy and [...]

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Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict: What we can learn from Gandhi – by Norman G. Finkelstein

Posted on May 16, 2009 by gandhifriends

The following article was delivered as the Tans Lecture, Maastricht University, Netherlands on 13th November 2008. The numbers in brackets mark footnotes. “This lecture will divide into three parts.  First, I will lay out the terms of the international consensus for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict.  Second, I will sketch Gandhi’s doctrine of nonviolent civil resistance.  [...]

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Albert Schweitzer and Indian Thought – by Rasoul Sorkhabi

Posted on July 1, 2008 by gandhifriends

“He [Albert Schweitzer] is the only Westerner who has had a moral effect on this generation comparable to Gandhi’s. As in the case of Gandhi, the extent of this effect is overwhelmingly due to the example he gave by his own life’s work.” Albert Einstein Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the renowned Christian theologian, philosopher, musician, physician, [...]

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Martin Luther King Jnr: The Civil Rights Movement and Gandhian Philosophy – by Michael Lewin

Posted on June 16, 2008 by gandhifriends

Gandhi’s long-standing commitment to, and promotion of passive resistance eventually paved the way for full Indian independence in 1948. The long and arduous struggle that he had engaged with, for over fifty years, finally culminated in the end of British imperialistic rule that had gripped Indian life for centuries. At this historical point Gandhi’s political [...]

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Gandhi and Peace Studies – by David Maxwell

Posted on May 15, 2008 by gandhifriends

This article was first published in issue 96 of The Gandhi Way What are Peace Studies ? They describe a new academic discipline first introduced in the second half of the 20th century. Peace Studies draw on subjects like anthropology, psychology, political science and ethics, but differ from them in stating a required outcome, Peace. [...]

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Nonviolence and the Self-Cherishing Mind – by David Edwards and Matthew Bain

Posted on May 2, 2008 by gandhifriends

This article was first published in issue 96 of The Gandhi Way On 2nd December 2007 Media Lens were presented with the Gandhi International Peace Award by Denis Halliday, former UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq and himself a recipient of the award in 2003.  Here Matthew Bain, a Friend of the Gandhi Foundation, asks David [...]

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Burma’s Freedom – Violence or Nonviolence?

Posted on July 9, 2007 by gandhifriends

A debate has arisen among members of the GF Committee over the justification of the use of military force in a good cause. Here are some of the email exchanges. The Editor would like to hear from readers also on this topic which is central to Gandhian thought. John Rowley: I take my view from [...]

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