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Ahimsa Center Director Dr. Aishwary Kumar speaking at the Inaugural Symposium of The Democracy Institute in Spring 2023

The Teagle Foundation’s Cornerstone Award for “The Faces Of Freedomâ€

CLASS will be launching The Democracy Institute and its award-winning GIFT Project (Global Inquiries in Freedom and Tyranny) in Fall 2024 with 10 CLASS faculty, including Ahimsa Center affiliates, offering the GIFT flagship seminar on The Faces of Freedom.
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The Inaugural Ahimsa Lecture on Constructive Resistance

The Tara and Nirmal Sethia Annual Ahimsa Lectures bring to our campus distinguished scholars, writers and artists, public intellectuals, thought leaders, social activists and change-makers.They remind us not only of the urgency of addressing the pervasive problem of violence but also offer a path forward based on their expertise and lived experiences in the realm of ahimsa.
Group of Cal Poly Pomona students seated around a round dinner table, smiling and enjoying a formal meal at an event hosted by the Ahimsa Center, with the Center’s logo and tagline 'Nonviolence in Thought and Action' visible in the corner.

Nonviolence for Our Times Student Voices

Now, a community has grown out of the Ahimsa Center in CLASS (a center dedicated to nonviolent political theory and practice) and its newly established Democracy Project, led by the Center's Director and Shri Shantinath Endowed Chair for Ahimsa Studies, Dr. Aishwary Kumar. Ahimsa in Sanskrit means a rejection of violence...
Two students present at the front of a classroom during the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights at Sonoma State University, with a slide displaying the Ahimsa Center and quotes about nonviolence projected behind them. Attendees are seated and listening.

Ahimsa Center at the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights

Everett Elias (History 2024) and Jenaveve Gregory (Anthropology 2024), candidates for Interdisciplinary Minor in Nonviolence Studies, represented our work in human rights and political nonviolence at the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights held at Sonoma State University...