11th Global Youth Peace Fest (GYPF-2016)

11th Global Youth Peace Fest (GYPF-2016)

Celebrating 11 Years of Youth leadership & Nonviolence

September 28 - October 02, 2016, Chandigarh and Shimla, India.

11th Global Youth Peace Fest (GYPF 2016) will take place from September 28th to October 2nd, 2016 in Chandigarh and Shimla, India. For over a decade, we at Yuvsatta (Youth for Peace) realized the significance of promoting peace and transformative change through active involvement of young people. And initiated GYPF- a platform for young change makers and youth leaders from all around the world to join hands in order to make a difference. Last year at GYPF-2015, over 300 young people from 29 countries and more than 20,000 local youth had contributed ideas and actions for creating a peaceful world for a better tomorrow.

GYPF 2016 shall provide another opportunity to all international and local delegates to contribute towards a sustainability thinking and action. We find it essential to maximize the potential and diversified talent that young people have and unite them in order to actively be involved and play an important role in inspiring change
 

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Gandhi Journal Article-III (March 2016) : Gandhi's Philosophy of Nonviolence

Gandhi Journal Article-III (March 2016) :

Gandhi's Philosophy of Nonviolence

With Gandhi, the notion of nonviolence attained a special status. He not only theorized on it, he adopted nonviolence as a philosophy and an ideal way of life. He made us understand that the philosophy of nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak; it is a weapon which can be tried by all.

Nonviolence was not Gandhi’s invention. He is however called the father of nonviolence because according to Mark Shepard, “He raised nonviolent action to a level never before achieved.” ¹ Krishna Kripalani again asserts “Gandhi was the first in Human history to extend the principle of nonviolence from the individual to social and political plane.”² While scholars were talking about an idea without a name or a movement, Gandhi is the person who came up with the name and brought together different related ideas under one concept: Satyagraha.

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