Violence and Non-violence : A Global Perspective

Contents: Preface. I. World Thinkers -- their ideas and ideals: 1. An apostle of non-violence in the grip of violence/Gopal Krishna Gandhi. 2. Gandhian concept of non-violent peace/Yogini Vyas. 3. A study on moral philosophy of the non-violence (Ahimsa) after Gandhi/Bhupendra Chandra Das. 4. Gandhi\'s role and relevance in conflict-resolution/Chhaya Rai. 5. The role of violence in Marxism/Aparna Banerjee. 6. Sri Aurobindo\'s philosophy of evolution in cultivating non-violent process of peace/Kireet Joshi. 7. Philosophy of non-violence and peace--the Vivekanandian perspective/Pranita Devi. 8. Violence, non-violence and world peace from Radhakrishnan\'s view point/Tapati Chakraborty. 9. Violence and non-violent spirit of expanding new world order/Swami Jitatmananda. 10. A study in violence and non-violence--a global perspective/Sudhir Kumar Nandy. 11. Visualizing a world beyond violence and non-violence/Manik Lal Bandyopadhyay. 12. World thinkers on non-violent ideas and ways for harmony and peace/Patricia Murphy. II. Violence and non-violence -- the traditional systems of thought: 13. Conflict-resolution found in Pauranic Literature/Sunanda Y. Shastri. 14. Resolution of conflicts led by socio-economic system/Suniti Kumar Pathak. 15. Non-violent way to world peace as peace within--a Jainistic approach/Manjula Parruck Dutta. 16. The elimination of Hubris as a step towards the establishment of peace/J.A. Odhiambo. 17. Islam, the religion of mercifulness on violence/Abdollah Gholamre Za Kashi. 18. Vedanata -- the liquidator of violence and Harbinger of non-violence and peace/Swami Paramatmananda. III. Prospect of non-violence in the perspective of violence: 19. Violence in human life/David E. Schrader. 20. Violence and non-violence/Krishna Chakraborty. 21. Nonviolent struggle, nonviolent defense and non-violent peacemaking/Adaikkalam Subbian. 22. The present day accursed world of endemic violence : ways and means of peace and non-violence/Mongal Moy Sarker. 23. Violence and global culture of non-violence/Amalendu Chakraborty. 25. Violence, non-violence and world peace/Subimalendu Bikas Sinha. 26. Non-violence: its concept and application/Sristidhar Biswas. 27. Globalisation without violence/Rita Sinha Dasgupta. IV. Violence and non-violence : an intercultural exploration: 28. The role of ecological security in ensuring multicultural world peace and harmony/S.P. Das Gupta. 29. Development and violence on ecology/Sandip Das. 30. Ecology violence and co-existence towards the making of a global citizen/Ranjit Ghose. 31. Religious conflict, spirit of non-violence and religious harmony/Anantha Narayanan. 32. Religion as a "Source" of conflict and its contribution to the economy of a country/Ishita Datta Ray. 33. Non-violence in the information age/Kodama Katsuya. 34. Mass violence and economic costs : a critique/Atreyi Maitra and Debashis Mazumdar. 35. Collective human power: universal values of non-violence and peace/A. Subbian. 36. Violence on women : a socio-philosophical perspective/A.K. Sulekha. 37. Kashmir : the key to Indo-Pak peace/Benudhar Pradhan. 38. Violence and military thoughts for peace/Priyadarshan Sensarma. 39. Non-violence--the scientific principle and its application/Gobinda Chandra Bandyopadhyay. 40. Economics and the earth constitution: the route to world peace and a non-violent world order/Glen T. Martin. V. Nonviolence as global value in creating a peaceful world order: 41. Non-violent process of international ethics and world peace/Haig Khatchadourian. 42. Non-violence and peace: an ethical approach/Mamata Kundu. 43. Education for a culture of peace and non-violence in the context of globalisation : a value centric approach/Jayadeba Sahoo. 44. Universal values of non-violence and peace/R. Sampath. 45. Violence and non-violence : a creative reconciliation for expanding intercultural world order/Santi Nath Chattopadhyay. Bibliography. About the contributors. Index.

"Multidimensional conflicts and clashes--religions and cultural, social and political, ethnic and economic which had severely shaken and shattered the stability and security of life in the 20th century, continue to raise the ugly heads and threaten the progress and prosperity of the present times with unabated intensity of violence. Violence breeds violence more and more the non-violent and intercultural movement for expanding human relation and understanding can only minimise violence and rescue mankind from the present crisis, paving the way for a peaceful world order."