International Online
\nFellowship Program on Nonviolence and Peace – 2024 -2025<\/p>\n
Program Modules
\nCourse 1: Global sustainability challenges and response: an analysis
\nI Development\u2013 concept, models, objectives, critical assessment; lessons.
\nII Sustainability: Concept – sustainability; Factors – Socio economic and environmental; Indicators
\n\u2013 harmonizing self, society, life and nature.
\nIII Appropriate system, structure and tools, Optimization of life.
\nIV Sustainability responses: individual, society, state and humanity; possibilities, strategies and good practices.
\nReading List
\nE F Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful- Economics as if People mattered, Harper Collins .
\nJ C Kumarappa, Economy of Permanence, A quest for a social order based on non-violence,
\nSarva Seva Sangh Prakashan, Varanasi.
\nBoard on Sustainable Development, National Research Council, Our Common Journey: A
\nTransition Toward Sustainability, National Academy Press, Washington D.C. 1999.
\nJennifer Elliott, An Introduction to Sustainable Development. (4th Ed.) Routledge, London, 2012
\nRogers, Peter P., Kazi F. Jalal, and John A. Boyd ,An Introduction to Sustainable Development
\nRoutledge, London 2007.
\nJeffrey D. Sachs, The Age of Sustainable Development, Columbia University Press, New York,
\n2015.
\nWolfang Sachs, The Development Dictionary, Zed Books, 1992.
\nJan Nederveen Pieterse , Development Theory: Deconstructions\/Reconstructions. 2nd ed. Sage,
\nLondon, 2010.
\nFranco, Isabel B.; Tracey, James, “Community capacity-building for sustainable development:
\nEffectively striving towards achieving local community sustainability targets”, International
\nJournal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 20 No. 4, pp. 691-725, 2019.
\nCourse 2: Fundamentals and dynamics of Gandhian nonviolence and peace
\nI
\nPhilosophical base of Gandhian nonviolence and Peace:concept of \u201eself\u201f and the \u201eother\u201f, human
\nnature and human perfectibility.
\nWorld view: Essential Unity of existence \u2013interconnectedness and interdependence.
\nTruth: Its Centrality: Relative and Absolute, Correlation between Truth and Nonviolence \u2013
\nMeans and Ends.
\nII Nonviolence: Meaning, features, dimensions, types and organization.
\nLogic of nonviolence, futility of violence, power of nonviolence, Superiority and efficacy of
\nnonviolence.
\nNonviolence as a Cardinal Principle governing human relations and as a way of life.
\nNonviolence as a means of socio-political and economic change
\nIII Gandhian vision of Peace
\nHolistic and integral approach
\nUnderstanding Gandhi\u201fs Critique of contemporary Development model andWestern
\nmaterialistCivilization
\nIV Orientation towards Rural Life, Self-reliance, Bread Labour, Trusteeship for Management of
\nWealth and Resources, Sarvodaya – an alternative socio-economic and political order
\nGandhian life style and ethical way of living for achieving peace and harmony
\nReading List
\nM K Gandhi, Sarvodaya ( The Welfare of All), Navajivan
\nM K Gandhi, India of My Dreams Navajivan
\nM. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule ,Navajivan.
\nM. K. Gandhi, Trusteeship,Navajivan.
\nM K Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme ,Navajivan.
\nM K Gandhi, Non Violence in Peace and War,Navajivan.
\nRaghavanIyer (ed.)The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi, Clarendon Press
\nOxford.
\nLouis Fischer,The Life of Mahatma Gandhi ,New York
\nLouis Fischer Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World ,New York
\nUntoTahtinen ,Ahimsa: Non-violence in Indian Tradition, Navajivan
\nV.K.Kool, The Psychology of Nonviolence and Aggression ,Palgrave Macmilan.
\nRobert L.Holmes and Barry L.Gan Nonviolence in Theory and Practice , Long Grove, IL,
\nWaveland Press.<\/p>\n
Course 3: Application of Nonviolent Action and the Global Experience
\nI
\nThe Philosophy and Sadhana of Satyagraha\/ nonviolent direct action
\nConcept , Theory, Variants and techniques
\nPreparation, Preconditions, Strategy and operational forms
\nII Satyagraha and Passive Resistance
\nSatyagraha and Duragraha
\nSatyagraha and Democracy
\nIII Civil Disobedience in Indian and Western Tradition
\nSatyagraha as weapon of Social Change and Revolution
\nResistance and Reconstruction :Satyagraha and Constructive Work
\nIV Case studies of nonviolent resistances in different countries and situations –
\nsatyagrahies\/nonviolent fighters.
\nSatyagraha Struggles of Gandhi in South Africa and India
\nDr. Martin Luther King Jr. and movement for Civil Rights
\nNonviolent Action against Apartheid:Albert Luthuli, Nelson Mandela
\nThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
\nThe Community of Ark of Lanza del Vasto
\nDaniloDolci
\nDalai Lama
\nReading List
\nM. K Gandhi, Non Violence in Peace and War, Navajivan
\nM K Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme ,Navajivan.
\nM K Gandhi,Satyagraha In South Africa, Navajivan
\nR.R.Diwakar ,The Saga of Satyagraha, Gandhi Peace Foundation,New Delhi
\nJohan Galtung , Dietrich Fischer Johan Galtung, A Pioneer of Peace Research SpringerBriefs
\non Pioneers in Science and Practice, Volume 5, 2013.
\nGene Sharp,The Politics of Nonviolent Action Part 1, 2, & 3 Porter Sargent, Boston.
\nJoan Valerie Bondurant Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict , Princeton
\nUniversity Press.
\nDennis Dalton Gandhi\u2019s Power Nonviolence in Action ,Oxford India Paperback
\nThomas Weber Conflict Resolution and Gandhian Ethics, Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi 1991.
\nPeter Ackermanand Jack DuVall ,A Force More Powerful ,Palgrave Macmillan
\nHoward Clark, People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity, Pluto Press, London
\nBeck Sanderson Nonviolent Action Handbook, World Peace Communications, Goleta California.
\nNarayan Desai A Handbook for Satyagrahis, Gandhi Peace Foundation ,New Delhi.
\nAckerman, Peter, and Christopher Kruegler Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the 20th Century, Praeger, Westport, CT l993.
\nAlbert, David H.People Power: Applying Nonviolence Theory, New Society Publishers,
\nPhiladelphia 1985.
\nStephen Zunes, S. B.Asher, Lester Kurtz (eds.) Nonviolent Social Movements: A Geographical
\nPerspective, Blackwell, 1999.
\nMary King ,Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr: the power of nonviolent action
\n,UNESCO, 1999.
\nThe Dalai Lama, Book of Wisdom, Harper .
\nSiby K. Joseph, Lanza del Vasto : A Messenger of Peace, Gandhi International Editions ,
\nCarcassonne , France, 2018 .
\nKurt Schock, \u201cNonviolent Action and Its Misconceptions: Insights for Social Scientists\u201d, PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 36, No. 4 ,Oct., 2003, pp. 705-712 .
\nVinay Lal , \u201cMandela, Luthuli, and Nonviolence in the South African Freedom Struggle\u201d
\nUfahamu: A Journal of African Studies, 38(1) 2014.
\nLawrence Baldassaro ,\u201dPeace Profile: Danilo Dolci \u201c Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, Volume 27, 2015, Issue no.1,pp.100\u2013107.
\nCourse \u2013 4 : Dealing with Conflict \u2013 Art of Conducting Conflict Creatively
\nI
\nUnderstanding Conflict: Meaning and types of conflict- conflict as an opportunity. Galtung\u201fs
\nABC Conflict Triangle. Constructive and Destructive Conflicts- Five Conflict Styles (ThomasKilman). Distinction between conflict management, resolution and transformation
\nII
\nCauses of Conflict: Primordial paradox; Pairs of opposites; Frustration aggression hypothesis;
\nDenial and deprivation:; Conflict spiral \/proliferation; Nonrealistic \u2013 ventilation; Conflict
\ncatalysts; Social Deficit; Structural and systemic incongruity.
\nSources: political – economic – environmental – historical – cultural – psychological
\nIII
\nConflict Activation – 1: Engaging conflict: Four \u201eA\u201f Method: Avoidance; Accommodation;
\nAnalysis; and Activation.
\nConflict transformation; perceptional shift; conflict optimization – dialogue, negotiation
\n(positions and interests- negotiating style \u2013 principled negotiation-
\nelements of Gandhian style negotiations- negotiating with difficult people), persuasion,
\nmediation (Types of Third Party Intervention \u2013 Mediation- prescriptive
\nvs. elicitive approaches); arbitration, judiciary intervention; passive resistance, nonviolent
\nresistance; Reconciliation- Truth, Justice, Mercy and Forgiveness
\nIV
\nActivation – II: Constructive dissolution \u2013 Addressing socio economic and political deficiencies,
\ninformation gap, discrimination (gender etc.,), poverty, unemployment, HR denial\u2026reforming
\nsystems and structure.
\nEssential skills; commitment to fundamental principles, values and determined adherence to truth
\nand nonviolence, operational skill (information, communication, organization, persuasion\u2026)
\nReading List
\nMark Jurgensmeyer , Fighting with Gandhi: A Step by Step Strategy for Resolving Everyday
\nConflicts, Joanna Cotler Books, 1986
\nRandall Collins, Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Science, Academic Press, New
\nYork ,1975
\nJohan Galtung , Peace by Peaceful Means, Sage, London, 1996
\nJohan Galtung ,Transcend and Transform: An Introduction to Conflict Work , Pluto Press ,
\nLondon ,2004
\nJohan Galtung, Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means \u2013 The Transcend Method,
\n[Participants\u201f Manual\/Trainers\u201f Manual], United Nations Disaster Management Training
\nProgramme, 2000
\nCharles Webel and Johan Galtung (Edited) Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies, Routledge,
\nNewYork ,2007
\nJohn Paul Lederach., The Little Book of Conflict Transformation, Good Books, New York, 2003
\nJohn Paul Lederach, The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace, Oxford, New
\nYork 2005
\nRonald J. Fisher Transforming Violent Conflicts, Syracuse University Press, 1997.
\nHeidi Burgess and Guy M. Burgess, eds., Encyclopedia of Conflict Resolution , ABC-CLIO,
\nSanta. Barbara 1997
\nKevin Avruch and Christopher Mitchell (Edited) Conflict Resolution and Human Needs
\nRoutledge, NewYork ,2013
\nJohn Burton Ed., Conflict: Human Needs Theory, The Macmillan Press, London, 1990
\nHubert M. Blalock, Jr. Power and Conflict: Toward a General Theory, Sage, CA 1989 .
\nRaimo Varyman, New Directions in Conflict Theory: Conflict Resolution and Conflict
\nTransformation,Sage, London 1991.
\nOliver Ramsbotham, Tom Woodhouse & Hugh Miall Contemporary Conflict Resolution Polity
\nPress, Cambridge 4th edition, 2016.
\nSchrock-Shenk, Carolyn. Ed. Mediation and Facilitation Training Manual: Foundations and
\nSkills for Constructive Conflict Transformation, Fourth edition, Mennonite Conciliation Service,
\nAkron, PA, 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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