The Patrons and Trustees of The Gandhi Foundation have great pleasure in inviting you to the joint presentation of The Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award 2011 to Dr Binayak Sen and Bulu Imam for their humanitarian work and their practice of nonviolence at The House of Lords on Tuesday 12th June 2012 from 6 – 8pm [...]
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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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World Civilian Coalition Gathers for Global March to Jerusalem Beirut -The International Executive Committee of the Global March to Jerusalem announces the completion of the preparations for the Second International Conference where the representatives of the International Committees involved in the organization of the Global March to Jerusalem will meet. The conference will be held in [...]
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To be presented to the Parents Circle Families Forum Wednesday 3rd November 6 – 8pm (seated by 5.45pm) at The House of Lords Room 4A This year the Annual Lecture will take the form of a panel discussion with the following distinguished members: The Parents Circle Families Forum (2 representatives: 1 Israeli and 1 Palestinian) [...]
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George Paxton has persuaded me to share some thoughts on developing our Gandhi Foundation Trustees’ discussion on monetary reform. I am clearly no academic; merely an ordinary member of the public who has become increasingly angry over the financial mess that is causing so much misery and the injustice of handing on such toxic chaos [...]
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Obituary of Cecil Evans, Quaker and co-founder of The Gandhi Foundation. Our thanks go to Douglas Butterfield and Jordans Quaker Meeting for permission to reproduce this remembrance of Cecil’s life. Upbringing Cecil Evans was born in 1925 in Liverpool of Welsh parentage. He was not born a Quaker. He wanted to be English and disengage [...]
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Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi 1948 (now sixty years ago) and Thomas Merton, a renowned Trappist monk and author, was killed in a tragic accident in 1968 (forty years ago). These anniversaries are valuable opportunities to reflect on the legacies, works and teachings of these two great men of peace. Gandhi has influenced [...]
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[This is an edited version of a letter I wrote to my children, Poppy and Alexander] I thought you would like to know more about this year’s Lecture and Award which took place in The House of Lords on 30th October. Father Alec Reid and The Reverend Harold Good [neat name!] are the two priests [...]
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Gandhi Peace Award 2008 – Citation by Dr. Omar Hayat Something extraordinary has taken place and is taking place in Northern Ireland. Something very powerful indeed. After decades of troubles the wholly unexpected coalition of the two extremes in the province, the Sinn Fein and the DUP has taken place (originally with the Reverend Paisley [...]
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