Gandhi's world of
peace
By Balamurali Balaji
Over many centuries, world civilization has witnessed countless instances
of warfare, battles, and conflicts duly capable of employing the power of
transmuting the human kind into forms what the emperors and rulers had never
thought of. There existed peerless and rarest men among the human species who
preached and practiced theories of peace that made the human race to evolve
into a more enlightened genre living of what he is today on this planet.
Mahatma Gandhi is the greatest apostle of peace the world has seen after
Buddha and Christ. His notion of peace is centered on nonviolence,
individualism, soul force and forgiveness. At first glance, global peace
initiatives might be perceived as far-flung methodologies that have wholly
diverged from his ideologies. Many modern researchers and philosophers feel
that today's conflicts are far more complex, so as their solutions. Global
peace, global citizen, neo-modern trends and global issues have placed Gandhi
at the backseat of the global forum.
But, there exists a fundamental correlation of what Gandhi had said and
what the world is doing these days to combat violence and bring peace. This
paper tries to find the relevance of Gandhi's dictum and how his ideologies can
be put in current day’s global peace initiatives. It also traverses through
various dimensions of peace one could think of in upholding global peace at
micro, individualistic levels.
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