Nonviolent Resistance as a Philosophy of Life: Gandhi’’s Enduring Relevance

＂What do we mean by nonviolence? What can nonviolence achieve? Are there limits to nonviolence? These are the questions that Ramin Jahanbegloo tackles in his journey through the major political advocates of nonviolence during the 20th century. Focusing on examples of their way of thinking in different cultural, geographic and political contexts, from the Indian Independence Movement and US Civil rights and Anti-Apartheid movements to the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and nonviolent protests in Tunisia, Iran, Serbia and Hong-Kong, Jahanbegloo explores why nonviolence remains relevant as a form of resistance against injustice and oppression around the world.＂--

Ramin Jahanbegloo is Professor and Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace at O.P. Jindal Global University, India. He is a member of the advisory board of PEN Canada and the winner of the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association in Spain (2009), and more recently the winner of the Josep Palau i Fabre International Essay Prize. He is also the founder of a peace movement called Students for Peace, which has active members in India, Canada and Colombia. His latest book is The Disobedient Indian: Towards a Gandhian Philosophy of Dissent (2018).