The Gandhi Foundation is a United Kingdom-based voluntary organisation which seeks to further the work of Mahatma Gandhi through a variety of educational events and activities.
Aims and activities
As part of its mission, the Gandhi Foundation focuses on promoting nonviolence as a remedy for war and aggression and egalitarian economics that emphasize self-reliance, cooperation, and trusteeship. The principal activities of the foundation are a quarterly newsletter and three annual events: a Multifaith Service, a Summer School, and an Annual Lecture. The newsletter is entitled "The Gandhi Way".[1]
In 2008 the Gandhi Foundation helped to organise The Festival of Non-violence. As part of the festival the British Library unveiled a new travelling exhibition "The Life of Gandhi",[2] with six 'panels' focusing on the following aspects of Gandhi's life and work: Non-violence and the influence of Jainism, Gandhi's work in South Africa, Gandhi's Philosophy, the Non-Cooperation and Quit India movements, and the independence of India.
2003: Denis Halliday, former UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq. In his acceptance speech,[4] he described Gandhi as one of his formative influences.
2004: Helen Steven and Ellen Moxley received the award in 2004 for their non-violent campaigning against weapons of mass destruction.[5]
2007: Media Lens founders David Edwards and David Cromwell. Media Lens is a British media analysis website established in 2001 which criticises what the editors view as bias and omissions in the British media. In his acceptance speech,[6][7] Cromwell cited Gandhi's maxim that "non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind".
2013: Jeremy Corbyn, for his "consistent efforts over a 30 year Parliamentary career to uphold the Gandhian values of social justice and non‐violence."[12][13]
2003: Simon Hughes. "India and Gandhi: their legacy to London".[20]
2004: Helen Steven and Ellen Moxley, founders of The Scottish Centre for Nonviolence.[24] "Our world at the crossroads: non-violence or non-existence".[25]
2005: Mark Tully. "Was the Mahatma too great a soul? Pulling Gandhi off his pedestal".