Gandhi Information Center

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Gandhi Information Center
purpose education
Chair: Christian Bartolf (Author)
Establishment date: 1990
Seat : Berlin
Website: www.nonviolent-resistance.info

The Gandhi Information Center has been a non-profit association for education since 1990 with around 100 members at home and abroad, including well-known scientists, artists and writers, such as B. the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel , Count Serge Tolstoy (1911–1995) and Professor Joseph Needham (1900–1995).

The Gandhi Information Center became known worldwide through the dissemination of the " Manifesto against conscription and the military system ", which updates two manifestos against the military training of young people, already signed by Gandhi , Einstein , Buber , Freud and Tolstoy's employees, Birukov and Bulgakov . This manifesto has now been translated into more than 25 languages ​​and signed by more than 200 outstanding personalities from over 30 different countries.

The Gandhi Information Center, a research and educational institution for nonviolence , has been organizing non-profit educational work since 1990 and publishes publications about the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi. The Gandhi Information Center makes contacts all over the world and contributes to an international network.

The non-violent, active resistance, as it was developed and lived by Gandhi, should be orientation and guidance for the association. In connection with this, the association wants to document the roots of nonviolence in diverse traditions (to name examples: the nonviolent teaching of Leo Tolstoy in Russia, the civil disobedience of Henry David Thoreau , the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King in the USA, the social ethics of John Ruskins from England, the Arche communities Lanza del Vastos in France as well as the convictions of conscience of religious conscientious objectors from Austria and Germany).

Under the title Satyagraha , the Gandhi Information Center published trilingual information worldwide from 1994 to 2008. The first two issues provided information about the commemoration of Gandhi's 125th birthday and the relationship between the Gandhi Information Center and the successors of Leo Tolstoy in Russia.

Exhibitions

Realization of museum exhibitions and documentation for the Anti-War Museum and the Gandhi Information Center in Berlin from 2008 to 2020 ( adult education , peace education ):

  • Gandhi's path to non-violence - autobiographical quotes, photos, original sound
  • Leo Tolstoy : “I cannot be silent!” - Thoughts against violence and war
  • Martin Luther King : "I Have A Dream" - Thoughts on Nonviolence
  • Henry David Thoreau : Civil Disobedience - Thoughts Against War and Slavery
  • Carl von Ossietzky : Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, journalist, political pacifist
  • John Ruskin : “This Last One” - Thoughts on Peace and Justice
  • Leo Tolstoy and the Duchoborzen : conscientious objection to military service
  • Rabindranath Tagore : “Words from the depths of truth” - Thoughts against war and nationalism
  • Étienne de La Boétie : Against voluntary servitude - discourse on the overthrow of a tyrant
  • Kurt Tucholsky : “Never again war!” - messages of pacifism
  • Karl Kraus : “Last Judgment” - polemics against war
  • “Not to be guilty of it” - pictures and poems against the war
  • Wolfgang Borchert : Say NO! - Testament against the war
  • Peace forever - monuments against war
  • Erasmus von Rotterdam : "War is sweet for the inexperienced ..." - Lawsuit against violence and war
  • Dr. Albert Schweitzer : "My word to the people" - commitment against nuclear war
  • Henry David Thoreau : "... give me truth" - a plea for nonviolent resistance
  • "Study War No More" - photographs and song verses for peace
  • Aldous Huxley : Alphabet of Peace. Commitment to the war
  • “The Revolution” - Council Democrats against violence and war 1919/2019
  • “ Bread and Roses ” - voices against the war

Interviews

Interviews for radio stations:

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