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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 [...]
Filed under: 4. GF Friends, Living & Environment, Nonviolence, UK & Europe | Tagged: animals, council, foie gras, Mother Teresa, Quaker, vegetarian | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Nonviolence, Pacific | Tagged: history, indigenous, Maori, New Zealand, nonviolence, white feather | 7 Comments »
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. [...]
Filed under: Middle East, Nonviolence | Tagged: conflict resolution, Gandhi, Gaza, international law, intifada, Israel, nonviolence, Palestine, satyagraha, UN | 10 Comments »
“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, [...]
Filed under: Nonviolence | Tagged: Africa, Gandhi, India, nonviolence, Peace, philosophy, Schweitzer | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: America, Nonviolence, Politics & Democracy | Tagged: african-american, civil rights, Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Nehru, nonviolence | Leave a Comment »
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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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 [...]
Filed under: Nonviolence | Tagged: altruism, Buddhism, compassion, Gandhi, media, nonviolence, Peace, Shantideva | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Nonviolence, South Asia | Tagged: Buddha, Burma, Gandhi, India, nonviolence, peace studies, World War II | Leave a Comment »
This article was first published in issue 97 of The Gandhi Way Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi did not claim to be a prophet or even a philosopher. “There is no such thing as Gandhism,” he warned “and I do not want to leave any sect after me.” There was only one Gandhian, he said, an imperfect [...]
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What exactly do we mean when we say we’re committed to nonviolence? Unfortunately, different people mean different things and are often not even aware of the differences. The purposes of this piece are to give an idea of the range of meanings possible, to improve our ability to identify the types of commitment we encounter, [...]
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