MGPE-008 Gandhian Approach to Peace and Conflict Resolution

Week-1

Gandhian Perspectives on Peace

Understanding Peace

Peace Traditions, Peace Movements, Peace-building and

Peace-building Approaches

Tolerance, Harmony and Forgiveness

Role of Education in making Harmonious Society

Untouchability: An Obstacle to Harmonious Society

Forgiveness as an act of Non-violence

Week-2

FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN GANDHIAN THOUGHT AND PRACTICE (i)

Faith in Human Goodness

Truth

Non-violence

FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN GANDHIAN THOUGHT AND PRACTICE (ii)

Creative Self-suffering

Means and Ends

Rejection of Coercion

Fearlessness

Week-3

Understanding Sources of Conflict

Approaches to Conflict Resolution

Human Nature and Conflict

Society and Conflict

Sources of Conflict

Culture

Ideology

Religion

Identity

Week-4

APPLICATIONS OF GANDHIAN APPROACH TO PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION (CASE STUDIES)

SEWA

The First Intifada

Petra Kelly

German Greens

Week-5

Western Approaches to Conflict Resolution

Dialogue, Negotiation and Facilitation

Arbitration and Adjudication

Essential Skills for Facilitation

Approaches to Negotiation and Mediation

Process of Negotiation

Process of Mediation

Non-Western Approaches to Conflict Resolution

Satyagraha

Strike

Fasting

Community Peace

Week-6

Gandhi’s Methods of Conflict Management, Transformation and Resolution

Mediation and Reconciliation

Relevance of Dialogue and Negotiation

Clash of Interests and Gandhian Way of resolution

Week-7

Gandhian Approach to Conflict Resolution

Types of Nonviolent Action

The Dialectics of Satyagraha

Principles of Satyagraha

Process of Satyagraha

Application of Satyagraha to Various Kinds of Conflicts (i)

Inter-personal Conflicts

Legal Conflicts

Application of Satyagraha to Various Kinds of Conflicts (ii)

Industrial Conflicts

Social Conflicts

International Conflicts

Week-8

Gandhi on Violence, Conflict and Conflict Resolution

The Concept of Mediation

Reconciliation

The Idea of Shanti Sena

Week-9

Gandhi as an Ambassador of Peace

Gandhi’s twin-principles of Peace: Truth and Non-violence

State and Civil Society as Instruments of Peace

Peace Movements in the post- Second World War phase

Gandhian approach to Terrorism

UN’s Recognition of Gandhian Principles

Week-10

Application of Gandhian Techniques in Noakhali

Application of Gandhian Techniques in North-East of India

Application of Gandhian Techniques in Sri Lanka

Week-11

Gandhi and Palestine

Application of Gandhian Techniques in Tibet

Application of Gandhian Techniques in Myanmar

Application of Gandhian Techniques in Bhutan

Week-12

A Comparison between Kashmir and the North-East

Idea of Fearlessness and Courage

Peace among Nations

Moral and Ethical Critique