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Michael N. Nagler (born January 20, 1937) is an American academic, nonviolence educator, mentor, meditator, and peace activist.
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Michael N. Nagler (born January 20, 1937) is an American academic, nonviolence educator, mentor, meditator, and peace activist.
Nagler is professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, where he founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and taught upper-division courses on nonviolence, meditation and a seminar on the meaning of life. [1] Nagler also participated in the Free Speech Movement. [2] He is President of the Metta Center for Nonviolence and author of The Search for a Nonviolent Future, The Nonviolence Handbook, and The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (March, 2020), and co-host of Nonviolence Radio and The Nonviolence Report. In 2007 Michael received the Jamnalal Bajaj international award for Promoting Gandhian Values Outside India. [3] He has spoken for the UN, the US Institute of Peace, and many academic and public venues for over thirty years. He has lived at the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation's ashram in Northern California since 1970.
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Padmanabha Pillai Gopinathan Nair was an Indian social worker, Gandhian, independence activist, and the chairman of Mahatma Gandhi National Memorial Trust. He participated in the Quit India movement of 1942 and worked alongside Vinoba Bhave to promote Bhoodan and Gramdan movements. He was the initiator of the camp movement, a student program that was part of the Construction Movement of Mahatma Gandhi. He was a recipient of the Jamnalal Bajaj Award, among other honors. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to society.
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