Ghandi Institute:Dialogue led by local teens
I.A.S.E. UNIVERSITY – Ghandi Vidya Mandir
Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Hindi: मोहनदास करमचंद गाँधी, Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, pronounced [moːɦən̪d̪aːs kərəmʨən̪d̪ ɡaːn̪d̪ʱiː] ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa or total nonviolence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi ([məɦaːt̪maː]; Sanskrit: महात्मा mahÄtmÄ or „Great Soul“, an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore), and in India also as Bapu (Gujarati: બાપુ, bÄpu or „Father“). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence. (ahimsa) Read More: > HERE <
Welcome to the M.K. Gandhi Institute of Nonviolence, founded by Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Institue has been housed at the University of Rochester since June 2007.
The M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence is located at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. We are dedicated to carrying out the principles of Mohandas K. Gandhi. Learn more about Gandhi!
Working in partnership with University of Rochester students and other organizations, we help local children learn about alternatives to conflict, teach nonviolence through service projects, plant food and flower gardens on and off the University of Rochester campus, tend sections of the nearby Genesee River, participate in urban agriculture to reduce hunger and create jobs, and support a grassroots movement to make Rochester a national leader in restorative justice.
We strive to identify, support and create projects and social systems that value all lives equally and where means and ends are understood to be inextricably linked.
Teen and adult facilitators are from Teen Empowerment: an organization which inspires young people, and the adults who work with them, to think deeply about the most difficult social problems in their communities, and gives them the tools they need to work with others in creating significant positive change. (Sponsored by Community Service Network, Rochester Community Center for Leadership, Office of Minority Student Affairs, and Fredrick Douglas Institute.)
Date: Friday, April 16, 2010
Time: 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: 108 Goergen (UR River Campus)
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