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Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela joined top leaders, Nobel laureates and elder statesmen on Monday calling on the world to reinvent Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent approach to solving conflicts.
Mandela, who spent 28 years in prison for fighting white rule before leading South Africa to multi-racial democracy as the country’s first black president in 1994, said Gandhi’s non-violent approach which won India freedom from British colonial rule 60 years ago was an inspiration. “His philosophy contributed in no small measure to bringing about a peaceful transformation in South Africa and in healing the destructive human divisions that had been spawned by the abhorrent practice of apartheid,” said Mandela.
The world’s nations must heed Mohandas Gandhi’s philosophy and provide for all their people while keeping greed in check, India’s prime minister said Tuesday, as the country marked the 59th anniversary of the Indian icon’s assassination.
Directed at the entire world, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s call was resonant in India — a booming country that’s minting tens of thousands of new millionaires each year but is still home to some 400 million people who live on less than a dollar a day.
“I do sincerely believe that the world cannot sustain the lifestyles of the affluent,” Singh told delegates at the close of a conference marking the centenary of Gandhi’s “satyagraha,” or nonviolent movement
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackWhile I cannot be said to be wholly a pacifist, the non-violent movement’s time has come. The idea for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years has been that you fight wars so that you can have peace. Well, look at the present…the 20th century was the bloodiest one in human history. So it’s obviously not working, and not going to work. Prospects for solving things with violence already look dim for the 21st century, obviously. So I agree with Mandela completely here, and definitely want to see variants of Gandhi’s philosophy and strategy applied in all sorts of scenarios. It occurs to me that we could even do this on a government level, if we wanted to. Can you imagine a president organizing the army or encouraging the people to practice non-violent resistance? That would be something.
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