How does a Nonviolent teacher cope with school violence?

Joshua Kaplowitz wrote a haunting personal account for the City Journal of his experience a 5th grade Teach For America teacher at a school in the “other half” of Washington, D.C.
Here’s a choice quote:
My optimism and naiveté evaporated within hours. I tried my best to be strict and set limits with my new students; but [...]

The Competition Disease

Education is just a means. If it is not accompanied by truthfulness, firmness, patience and other virtues, it remains sterile, and sometimes does harm instead of good. The object of education is not to be able to earn money, but to improve oneself and to serve the country. If this object is not realized, it [...]

India-Pakistan soldiers’ NGO holds peace forum in Mumbai

From Thaindian News:
Mumbai, May 10 (IANS) The Indo-Pak Soldiers Initiative for Peace (IPSI), a NGO formed by retired soldiers of Indian and Pakistani armies, started a three-day peace forum here Saturday. According to IPSI vice-president Tej Kaul, the aim of the peace forum is “to promote peace and harmony between two nations”.
Congress MP from Mumbai [...]

The AHIMSA Project’s Gandhi Conference

October 17-19, 2008 at CalPoly, Pomona — Featuring our beloved friend and colleague Nipun Mehta of CharityFocus.
“The third international conference of the Ahimsa Center at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (in Los Angeles area) will focus on rediscovering the Gandhian wisdom grounded in Ahimsa and Truth to help us chart a more peaceful and more [...]

Michael Nagler: Q&A on Peace in the Middle East