Arun Gandhi Holds 9/11 Dialogue with Students

Sunday, September 11, 2011
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT
Location: Berkley Center 3rd floor conference room Map

Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, met with students for a dialogue and discussion on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Following the meeting, the group participated in the annual 9/11 Unity Walk.

Starting at the Washington Hebrew Congregation, with a symbolic Muslim call to prayer and keynote speakers, participants walked past open houses at places of worship to experience a variety of faith and cultural traditions. Walkers were then welcomed at the Islamic Center of Washington by a gospel choir singing Amazing Grace, and proceeded to the Gandhi Memorial for a closing celebration.

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Arun Gandhi is the fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi and a committed advocate of the practice of non-violence. Arun lived with Mohandas Gandhi for eighteen months prior to his assassination and later became a journalist and reporter for The Times of India. After a career in journalism spanning over thirty years, Arun subsequently moved to the United States. Once in the United States, Arun Gandhi founded the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester and also taught courses on Mohandas Gandhi at Salisbury University. He is the founder of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute, which promotes community building in economically depressed areas by integrating Gandhian philosophy and vocational education. Gandhi is the author of A Patch of White (1949) and Legacy of Love: My Education in the Path of Nonviolence (2003), as well as a regular contributor to the Washington Post's "On Faith" site.

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