Who are we? Cast a glance at our logo to get a few clues! You will notice that it includes a spiral form. The spiral is one of the most basic shapes found in nature and one of the most ancient symbols of growth, change, and transformation. For the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence at James Madison University it evokes the processes that lead outward, onward, and upward from conflict toward creativity and harmony.

 

In pursuing the threefold goals of teaching, research and scholarship, and engagement, the Gandhi Center seeks to advance the understanding of, appreciation for, and practice of nonviolence, by exploring the significance for the contemporary world of the great task Mahatma Gandhi set for himself and for all of us as an experiment and an actual experience. "My mission," the Mahatma said, "is to convert…the world to non-violence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social, or religious."

 

The Center is named in honor of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948). Mahatma, meaning "great soul," was an honorific title.

 

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Click here for information about the forthcoming visit of

Former U.S. President and Nobel Peace laureate Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter

to James Madison University