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Gandhi’s grandson speaks on peace in today’s world JANE CALLAHAN Associate News Editor At the head of the table in a crowded room in Burns Hall at the East-West Center, there sat a man with what should be a strangely familiar face. A fter all, his grandfather’s portrait was in many textbooks in America. Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, stopped at UH Mānoa on Wednesday to deliver his lecture “Non-violence: A Means for Social Change.” The talk was particularly aimed at discussing peace in light of the recent events in the Middle East and North A frica. “We are a culture of violence,” Gandhi said, “by controlling other people through fear.” He cited the supply of nuclear weapons that can be found in 25 nations. “Now we don’t know how to control them. ... We have terrorists and we don’t know how to fi ght them. It’s a very dangerous situation.” War, he said, is not the answer, because it perpetuates a cycle of violence. To know peace, one must understand violence. He focused on how people’s dependence on each other as human beings, regardless of their nation, is stunted by nationalism. “It’s fi ne to be proud of our nation, but not letting the rest of the world go down the tubes. We are connected; what happens to the rest of the world will happen to us. We will go down the tubes
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On Wednesday, Dr. Arun Gandhi (right), grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, gave a lecture on attaining peace at the EastWest Center. The seminar focused on ending physical violence by ending passive violence. The room was full, with people outside in the hallway straining to hear. with them, superpower or not, whether we like it or not. “People say ‘we live in peace’ just because there is no fighting in the streets. We are in a materialist society. There is selfishness for a better job, more money. Materialism brings out the worst in human behavior. We forget the people [who] are left behind.” He explained the danger of passive violence, which ranges from wasting resources to discriminating against others. “Physical violence is the result of passive violence. It generates an-
ger in the victim.” Gandhi grandfather experienced an act of discrimination in South Africa, where he was removed from his train for sitting in a white-only car. Outraged, he told other Indians of his experience. “They all shrugged and said, ‘it happens all the time, that’s how things are,’” Arun Gandhi recalled. “My grandfather realized that by accepting the discrimination, the Indian people were oppressing themselves.” The talk was sponsored by the Gandhi International Institute for
Peace, which has an office in Honolulu, and the We Are One Foundation, which is a non-profit organization that promotes “global healing by sharing education.” Proceeds from the fundraising events will go to the We Are One Foundation. Born in South A frica in 1934, Arun Ghandi lived with his grandfather for a year and a half just before India achieved its independence in 1947. He worked as a journalist for the Times of India for three decades. He went on to establish the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in
Memphis, Tenn. For the past two years he traveled the world, discussing strategies for peace. In 2009, he embarked on a European tour, and in 2010 he was part of the Global Exchange Organization’s “reality tours.” Through the GEO program, he returned to India to retrace the footsteps of his grandfather’s life. The East-West Center was the first stop on Gandhi’s five-day trip to O‘ahu. Other locations included talks for HPU, ‘Iolani, the state capitol, the Gandhi memorial statue in front of the Honolulu Zoo, and a fundraiser dinner at Himalayan Kitchen in Kaimukī. Gandhi has scheduled talks with media and institutions in Honolulu up to four times a day. During his career, Arun Gandhi has produced four books, numerous essays and compilations of Mahatma Gandhi’s work. He has set up several social programs, with the goal of allowing the poor of India to build a foundation for future security. He tells the story of one such project he undertook in 1970, in Bombay (Mumbai), India, which was based on the idea that charity should be given out of compassion, not out of pity. Arun Gandhi and fi ve other participants gathered 800 people
Arun Gandhi: For more information on his peace model, go to www.kaleo.org/news.
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