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ACTIVE NONVIOLENCE EDUCATION CENTER HALF YEARLY FEBRUARY 2013 - AUGUST 2013 ISSUE - 8 IS GANDHI RELEVANT TO THE FACEBOOK AND TWITTER AGE? By Tenpa C. Samkhar (Executive Director – ANEC) (Former Kashag (Cabinet) Secretary for Political Affairs/Former CTA Health Secretary) Former Vice President, Indo-Tibetan Friendship Society - Himachal State Head Office

We have moved from spinning wheels uprisings against totalitarian, repressive faithfully and steadfastly dedicated his and handlooms to massive, expeditious regimes. At the crux of their strategies life. textile machines and factories! Snail- Gandhi appears in the center stage of His Holiness the 14th Dalai speed bullock carts gave way to horse- their nonviolent protest theories and Lama of Tibet, in his message to ANEC, drawn chariots, and then inert charcoal- ideals. In the United States’ 'Occupy eulogizes Gandhi by stating: "What fueled trains, and now we are in the age Movements', renowned theorists like distinguishes Gandhi was that he of magic-speed electronic bullet trains Gene Sharp and Noam Chomsky, whose showed how nonviolence could be a n d s u p e r s o n i c j e t a i r c r a f t s ! ideas stand upon the firm foundation of successful in providing an effective Monotonous long distance trunk calls Gandhi's work and examples, were at approach to the resolution of conflict!' I and sluggish postal service have now the very forefront of the massive, would, therefore, like to conclude that, given way to an amazing new type of popular movement to nonviolently fight regardless of the medium through which c o m m u n i c a t i o n t h a t m e s s a g e i s channel: the fabulous c o n v e y e d , b e i t s o c i a l m e d i a o f Facebook, Twitter, Facebook, Twitter postal service or and WeChat! t e l e v i s i o n , t h e T h e s e m e s s a g e i t s e l f incredible scientific remains relevant and and technological powerful today, just as i n n o v a t i o n s a n d it was in Gandhi's own inventions pose a time. very big question: In the words of 'Have science and A l b e r t E i n s t e i n , technology ushered "Generations to come in any significant will scarcely believe c h a n g e s a n d that such a one as this ANEC Executive Director’s exclusive interview with Kiva Bottero, innovations in the Mindful Work Magazine, Canada ever in flesh and blood moral and ethical values of humanity had walked on this earth." Albert at large?' The answer, I think, will for economic and social justice. And Einstein was absolutely right: in an remain a firm "NO". like the Arab Spring, Facebook and ironic sort of way, Gandhi no longer The next important question Twitter were cardinal sources of walks the earth in flesh and blood, but then follows: 'Is Gandhi relevant to communicating to a wide audience in an rather exists for the Facebook and the Facebook and Twitter age?' i n e x p e n s i v e , h a n d y w a y t h e Twitter age as a highly digitized Another way to put that same question developments taking place during the emblem of truth and nonviolence. is: 'Are the Principles of Truth and protests. Thus, Facebook and Twitter In the light of the above Nonviolence relevant to Facebook have in fact emerged as cogent and undeniable facts, we naturally reach the and Twitter? The answer, I think, is timely instruments and channels for indubitable conclusion that Mahatma simple and indubious. As recent history disseminating and promoting the Gandhi is more than relevant to the has shown, Facebook played a priceless message of truth and Facebook and Twitter age. stupendous role in the Arab Spring nonviolence for which Gandhi had so

1 EDUCATION FOR NONVIOLENCE IN A NONVIOLENT SOCIETY By Dr. Mary Gendler and Rabbi Everett Gendler (Chief Resource Persons of ANEC) Education for nonviolence: What might the Chinese is important to consider. In BASIC GOALS AND GENERAL this mean? What is the goal of this addition, there are bound to be APPROACH education? What kind of person do we differences between those returnees The goal of education for nonviolence is want to help emerge through this from the exile community and those to guide the young person in the process? What kind of society? Is who have remained in Tibet (eg. reunion development of: "education" confined to formal of east and West ). In a society 1. Habits of mind, heart and action schooling with children in institutions, which has moved from being quite that include self respect and or does it have wider application? How isolated and uniform to one which is compassion for others as well as does such education interweave with internationally involved and diverse, critical questioning and creative and reflect the religious and moral teaching tolerance and understanding thinking. values of a community? Can such an will be crucial. A nonviolent society will 2. Communication and problem approach to education teach people how need to take great care to respect solving skills which lead to the ability to deal with interpersonal, family, and individual differences that do not entail to resolve conflicts peacefully, and to communal conflict? Can it help its t h e e s t a b l i s h m e n t o f population defend itself against interpersonal, communal, and societal exploitation and injustice, international cooperation. internal coup, and foreign It is our belief that personal, aggression? interpersonal, societal and These are a few of the international violence are all questions which immediately parts of a whole which cannot and c o m e t o m i n d w h e n should not be separated. In order contemplating a system of to work towards developing the education for a nonviolent society. k i n d s o f p e r s o n a l s k i l l s Although we are far from being mentioned above, education for able to provide definitive answers nonviolence needs to pay to any of them, we shall try to attention to all of these forms of address the questions thoughtfully violence by helping children first and offer both general ideas learn how to deal constructively a n d c o n c r e t e s u g g e s t i o n s f o r the oppression of others. with their own negative feelings and implementation. There is also the question of impulses, such as anger, hatred and The new Tibetan society will developing ways to defend the society aggression. Form a very young age face many challenges, both internal and against foreign aggression. Most children should be taught to express external upon becoming once again an countries have armies trained to protect their feelings and concerns in a autonomous/ independent state. Much their population by force and violence if constructive way. According to their has changed since 1959, and the reality necessary. These armies receive abilities, they should also be taught how is that there is no going back. In addition extensive training and weapons. A to find creative solutions to conflicts to the usual issues of class, wealth, nonviolent society will need to develop within their world and experience- i.e., education, and regional loyalties which the different means of self-defense among family, friends, teachers. They all countries have to deal with, the which active nonviolent resistance should also learn nonviolent ways to Tibetan community will have to accept provides. This 'army', which will consist defend themselves from personal the fact that not all of the challenge of of the entire population of Tibet, will attack. Older children will profit greatly developing ways to live peaceably with also need to be "trained" and "armed", from a broader approach, focusing their each other, an especially difficult task but in this case, the "training" will come developing skills in problem solving given the recent history. It is important through school, community and and conflict resolution on problems not to underestimate the effects of the religious education, and the "weapon" around them, in their communities, and trauma suffered by so many Tibetans. will be the qualities of mind and in the world. Concrete examples of how How to help these people move from character described below, applied in to do this will follow in the next section. fear and anger to trust and acceptance of effective strategies and tactics. (Please see remaining in next issue)

ANEC Editorial Board Editorial Chair/ Advisor : Tenpa C. Samkhar(Mr), Executive Director - ANEC Former CTA Kashag (Cabinet) Secretary for Political Affairs Former Vice President, Indo-Tibetan Friendship Society, Himachal State Head Office Editorial Board Members: Tenzin Dasel (Miss) Training cum Teaching Officer (English Documentation) Phurbu Dolma (Miss)- ANEC Additional Training cum Teaching Officer (Tibetan Documentation) Tenzin Nyima (Miss)-ANEC Accountant (Dispatch & Circulation) 2 uÛ-mô¼-7GôP-Å-7BzÅ-¤Gôm-Vïm-qô-¤VôG q-»Ûm-ŸïÅ-¸ï¼-HÛ-»ôhü P-±ô-zôh-qºÛ-PôÅ-mÅ- ¤P-hÝ-ºIô-GÛ-»ôhü P-±ô-zôh-qºÛ-PôÅ-mÅ- ¤Û-GÅôh-FG- ¢ô¼-HÛ-¾Å-fzÅ-¾G-¾ïm- ¤fº-GTÛG-bà-¤Û-GÅôh-FG-¢ô¼-HÛ-¾¤-¾- zÇe¼-z-»Ûm-mü hï-mÛ-mP-hôm-M-¤Û-¾-hGôÅ-q- xÛm-q-»Ûm-mü M-¤Û-¼ÛGÅ-ÁÛG-»Ûm-xÛm-DôP- hï-‚ãP-z-¼ïh-zŤ-HÛ-ºhÝG zôh-qºÛ-PôÅ-mÅ- ±ôºÛ-zŤ-„ÀôºÛ-mP-zôh-q-¸ï¼-hÝÅ-¤Û-zhï-z- ¤Û-GÅôh-FG-¢ô¼-HÛ-¾Å-;-ym-zÞ-ŸÛG-‚Å-m- ŸÛG-»ôP-Mã-»Ûmü hïP-ÅP-Eôm-»ôPÅ-mÅ- M-¤ÛÅ-hï-¾-DG-zbGÅ-mÅü zôh-q-±ô¼- zÁh-m-zôh-q¼-Á-±-‚ïh-¤Dm-M-¤Û-ZÝP-ZÝP- ºzÞ¼-zlݾ-GbôP-MºÛ-Gô-Ç+zÅ-hP-V-Aïm-fôz- »Ûm-mºP-ü hï-hG-¾ô-¼ï-zŸÛm-¤Û-Çkôh-q¼-¤P- q-¤-¸hü º²¤-JÀÛP-¾-»P-Ç+h-V-zÁh-zhï-qô- hÝ-ºIô-GÛ-»ôhü h-¿e-M-mG-mP-»ôh-qºÛ-M-¤Û- VGÅ-ˆÛ-»ôh-q-¼ïhü hï¼-zdïm-¤Û-GÅôh-FG- ±ô-hP-P-±ô-ºƒï¾-z-¤ïh-¾ü DôP-±ôÅ-P-±ôºÛ- ¢ô¼-HÛ-¾¤-¾-xÛm-mü P-±ô¼-HôP-¼G-Mã-¾Å- hPôÅ-»ôh-GmÅ-±ß¾-n¤Å-ÁïÅ-DG-qô-¼ïhü Dï-wm-fôz-Mã-ÁÛm-bà-DG-qô-»Ûmü G¾-bï-¤Û- xÛ-¼ô¾-º²¤-JÀÛP-¼P-hzP-¾ÞP-qºÛ-mP-M- GÅôh-FG-¢ô¼-zMãh-mÅ-P-±ô¼-Iâz-ºƒÅ- ¤ÛºÛ-ÇÀôz-yâG-FÛ-FG-¤P-qô-»ôh-q-hï-±ôºÛ-mP- fôz-q-»Ûm-mºP.ü hï-mÛ-zdm-qô-hP-ÇtäÅ-hG-qô- mÅ-P-±ô¼-hGº-qô-‚Å-bï-Á-±-‚ïh-¤Dm-¾ô-¼ï- PºÛ-PôÅ-mÅ-Gž-zÁh-‚-Mã¼ü h-¿e-P-¼P- ŸÛG-»ôP-fzÅ-¤ïh-q-º²¤-JÀÛP-Å-GmÅ- mÅ-¾ô-¼ï-Wï-¤P-hÝ-ºIô-GÛ-»ôhü hqï¼-mü Í- ±ôÅ-¼P-hzP-¯ôh-¾ïm-‚ïh-q-ºhÛ-¾-¤fº- GŸm-HÛ-GmÅ-±ß¾-mÅ-¤fôP-Gž-»Ûmü ¼ÛºÛ-ÇÀôz-IÔ-DG-¾-»ôh-qºÛ-M-¤ÛºÛ-ÇÀôz-yâG- GTÛG-bà-ŸÛ-zºÛ-¾¤-zMãh-mÅ-‚ïh-q-ºhÛ-¾- »G-ÁôÅ-¤Û-hP-¤ÛºÛ-z¼-¤²º-ºƒï¾-HÛ-fôG- ºGº-ÁÅ-PºÛ-ż-»ôP-Çeï-¤ÛG-Vß-zbP-mÅ-P- hGôÅ-q-Mã-¤±m-¤P-qô-»ôhü hqï¼-mü mÅ-GZÛÅ-¤ôÅ-ˆÛ-fzÅ-ÁïÅ-‚ïh-Mã-hï-»Ûmü ¼P-M-¤Û-»Ûmü zôh-q¼-hGôPÅ-hG-ŸÝ-GÛ-»Ûmü hPôÅ-»ôh-GmÅ-±ß¾-¾-VÛG-ÇeôP-hGÝ-zM-¿S- GZÛÅ-¤ôÅ-ˆÛ-fzÅ-ÁïÅ-ºôG-mÅ-fG-GTôh- M-¤Û-¼ÛGÅ-ˆÛÅ-zôh-mP-Gbô¼-zÁÛG-hP-ü zTß-P-¿S-P-iâG-mÅ-z¸ÞP-ü iâG-Tß-¼ï-IPÅ- ‚ãP-zºÛ-Iâz-ºƒÅ-hï-ÇS-ºyôÅ-ºhôh-q-DïPÅ- zôh-¤Û-¤P-¾-¤m¼-GTôh-zŤ-»Þ¾-¾Å- z¼-zôh-ˆÛ-Å-DÞ¾-¤P-qô-ŸÛG-¾-hPôÅ-ÅÞ- q-ŸÛG-»ôP-GÛ-¤ïh-ˆP-ü Iâz-ºƒÅ-‚ãP-z-hï- ºhÅ-q-zbP-ºhÝG GmÅ-±ß¾-ºhÛ-±ô-ÇSôm- º²ÛP-¼ïÅ-zbP-zºÛ-GmÅ-±ß¾-‚ãP-»ôhü hï- zdm-qô-»ôhü PôÅ-mÅ-h-z¼-ŸÛ-zºÛ-fzÅ-¾¤- Vh-P-±ôÅ-Gbm-mÅ-ÁïÅ-ˆÛ-¤ïhü h-V-¼P- ¾-zdïm-mÅ-M-¤ÛÅ-zôh-mP-h¤G-¤Û-ºzô¼- ºzº-ŸÛG-zMãh-mÅ-ºIô-hGôÅ-ŸïÅ-zÁh-q- hzP-¾ÞP-qºÛ-mP-ÇÀïzÅ-bï-GmÅ-±ß¾-Xïm-q- Vïm-qô-hzô¼-ºiïm-‚Å-q-hP-ü zôh-ˆÛ-ºƒôG- ºhÛ-GmÅ-±ß¾-Mã-¤±m-¤P-qô¼-zŤ-„Àô- ÁïÅ-MãºÛ-Gô-Ç+zÅ-½‰ïh-q¼-zdïmü P-±ôÅ-M-¤Û- Çkï-hP-ü ŸÛP-qºÛ-Å-DÞ¾-ºGº-ŸÛG-©ïG-¤ïh- zbP-mÅ-zÁh-q-»Ûmü º²¤-JÀÛP-fôG-GÛ-zôh- ¼ÛGÅ-ˆÛ-±z-‚Å-mÅ-zôh-¤Û-¼ÛGÅ-¾-hGôPÅ- ¯-ÇeôPÅ-ÅÞ-zbP-zºÛ-GmÅ-±ß¾-‚ãP-»ôhü q¼-Mz-Bô¼-‚ïh-¤Dm-¤P-qô-ŸÛG-GÛÅ-zôh- hG-ŸÝ-GÛ-»ôh-TïÅ-zXôh-¤Dm-D-ÁÅ-‚ãP-ü hï- hï¼-zdïm-P-±ôÅ-iG-¯çz-ˆÛ-¾¤-¾-xÛm-mü hï- qÅ-¼P-hzP-¯ôh-¾ïm-‚ïh-ÇePÅ-ºhÛü º±ï- mÛ-¾ô-GTÛG-GZÛÅ-mP-GÛ-GmÅ-±ß¾-»Ûmü M- ¾-M-¤ÛÅ-iG-Gmôm-‚-Mã¼-fï-±ô¤-¯-z-mÅ- ¤ïh-ŸÛ-zºÛ-¾¤-Dô-m-zMãh-mÅ-ºIô-GÛ-»ôh-q- ¤ÛºÛ-mP-mÅ-zôh-q¼-hô-ÇoP-‚ïh-¤Dm-¤P-hÝ- ¤ïhü wÞGÅ-¾-P-±ô¼-HôP-¼G-MãºÛ-Zïm-D- ºhÛ-hPôÅ-GmÅ-Pô-¤±¼-Vïm-qô-¼ïhü hï-¾- ºIô-zºÛ-Mã-¤±m-G®ô-zô-GTÛG-mÛü P-±ô-zôh- »ôhü hqï¼-mü- M-¤ÛºÛ-PôÅ-mÅ-iG-Gmôm- PïÅ-q¼-hÝ-M¾-D-fôz-fÞz-q-ŸÛG-‚ïh-hGôÅ- qºÛ-PôÅ-mÅ-iP-zhïm-hP-ü ¿ËG-zŤü ¤ÛºÛ- ‚ïh-hÝÅ-n¤-;Ým-DºÛ-¯ï-¾-ºEï¼-mÅ-D- ŸïÅ-zôh-q¼-Mz-Bô¼-hP-Á-±-‚ïh-ˆÛ-»ôh-q- ¤²º-z¯ïºÛ-n¤-ºHã¼ü ;Ým-uôh-z¸P-qôºÛ-¿e- ºhôGÅ-‚Å-bï-»Þ¾-HÛ-zhï-ºWGÅ-¾-ºFâG- ¼ïhü h-wm-P-±ôÅ-º±ï-¤ïh-ŸÛ-zºÛ-¾¤-¾- z-¤-z½ÀGÅ-q-zTÅ-ˆÛ-fôG-mÅ-¼P-hzP-GÛ- Aïm-ÇÀôP-GÛ-ºhÝG-¸ï¼-z-hP-ü ¤Û-¤P-zhï-¾- zBôh-qºÛ-ºƒÅ-zÞ¼-hïP-ÅP-M-¤ÛºÛ-mP-mÅ- ºfz-¯ôh-‚Å-q-ºhÛºÛ-G¸Û-ºôh-¼P-zŸÛm-hÝ- ºDôh-Vïh-¸ÛP-V-¿ËÛP-ºWGÅ-GbôP-¤Dm- zôh-q¼-Á-±-‚ïh-¤Dm-hP-ü zôh-qºÛ-¼P-hzP- ºyô-zÅ-»Ûmü ü h¤G-¤Û-zbP-z-»Ûmü h¤G-FÛ¤Å-zÇk¤Å- zhïm-hôm-ºfz-¯ôh-¾-Mz-Bô¼-‚ïh-¤Dm-Wï-

3 Definition of 'NONVIOLENCE' by His Holiness the Dalai Lama “Restraining from harming others out of fear is not nonviolence. Nonviolence means you have the ability to harm others but you restrain from harming others out of love, compassion and respect. Nonviolence is not weakness but strength. Nonviolence is respecting others' rights and welfare. Nonviolence is action based on pure motivation. Remaining indifferent to what is happening is not nonviolence. Your motivation should be to love others and respect others. Your motivation in restraining from harming yourself should also be based on the same principles. So, the most important factor is your motivation. These are the two faces of the same coin. Wherever I go I always promote ‘AHIMSA’ His Holiness the Dalai Lama during his teaching in New Delhi on March 19th 2010

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4 Nonviolence Holds the Key to Survival Nelson Mandela, former political prisoner and President of South Africa, gave the following speech via satellite to a conference on Gandhi held in India on January 29, 2007. I am delighted to be addressing this Satyagraha, which is a legacy shared by poverty and stimulating development. Conference from, Johannesburg, the both the countries. I also had the It is a strange coincidence that Mahatma city where Mahatma Gandhi launched opportunity of meeting Prime Mininster Gandhi launched Satyagraha on satyagraha (Editor's note: principled Manmohan Singh when he visited September 11, 1906 at the Empire mass nonviolent direct action, often South Africa last October for the joint Theatre in Johannesburg. Today 9/11 translated as “truth force”) just over a commemoration. has an entirely different, horrific hundred years ago. This conference on I am aware that a series of connotation. Gandhian philosophy in the 21 s t events have been planned both in South In a world torn by violence and Century comes at a critical juncture. Africa and India to mark 100 years of strife, Gandhi's message of peace and We in South Africa owe much to the Satyagaraha. We recently had a nonviolence holds the key to human presence of Gandhi in our midst for 21 conference on Robben Island, a place of survival in the 21st century. He rightly years. His influence was felt by freedom oppression and exile, to reflect on the believed in the efficacy of pitting the struggles throughout the African legacy of Gandhi. This Conference soul force of the satyagrahi against the Continent for a good part of the 20th today in New Delhi marks an important brute force of the oppressor and, in century. And he greatly inspired the milestone in those celebrations and I effect, converting the oppressor to the struggle in South Africa led by the hope it will articulate the aspirations of right and moral point of view. African National Congress (ANC). all those who lay faith in the ideals that I hope that this Conference will His philosophy contributed in no small Mahatma Gandhi preached and lived be able to come up with creative measure to bringing about a peaceful for. solutions to the problems which beset transformation in South Africa and in I am especially happy that the our world today and create a new healing the destructive human divisions Conference has chosen to focus on paradigm for the application of the that had been spawned by the abhorrent Satyagraha as a tool for empowerment. Gandhian trinity of Satyagraha, practice of apartheid. Gandhi's insistence of self-sufficiency Sarvodaya(the welfare of all), Ahimsa It is very appropriate, therefore, is a basic economic principle that, if (gentleness towards all) to create a just, that India and South Africa are jointly followed today, could contribute peaceful, and tolerant world for the c e l e b r a t i n g t h e c e n t e n a r y o f significantly to alleviating Third World present and succeeding generations.

The Nonviolent Relationship between Gandhi and the U.S. Ianna Hondros McCarthy (ANEC Intern) Scholar of Peace Studies from America The symbolic relationship between ideology that changed the course of a Mohandas Gandhi's ideas and nation's political system, and gave the American ones started in conjunction world a framework for successfully with Gandhi's own development as a implementing nonviolent ideas and nonviolent activist and leader. In 1931, practices to not only fight for what they a year after he led thousands in what believe in, but win. later became known as the Dandi Salt From an American perspective, March, Gandhi said to a colleague in the names of some leaders and thinkers that Henry David Thoreau's heavily influenced by Gandhi that come essay, "Civil Disobedience" (1849), most readily to mind are Martin Luther "contained the essence of his political King, Jr., leader of the U.S. Civil Rights philosophy, not only as India's struggle Movement, and Gene Sharp, an related to the British, but as to his own American Political Science professor, views of the relation of citizens to prolific writer on nonviolent struggles government." Although Thoreau was and strategies. U.S. Civil Rights movement from 1955- quite influential to American activist Just as Gandhi fought for the 1963. Heavily drawing upon Gandhi's movements, and is still widely read racial equality of Indians in South peaceful, nonviolent protest techniques, today, it was Gandhi who first Africa from 1906-1915, Martin Luther such as making sure protesters stay integrated his ideas into a political King, Jr. fought for racial equality in the Continuation on page 11

5 My Lucky Encounter with ANEC By Elena Ivanovski (Actor and Lawyer, Australia and USA, Friend of ANEC)

Continued from the Seventh issue of The current aggressive state of the all want to be.” “ANEC Messenger” world is a reflection of our inner state of This is just one My Thoughts on the Tibet Issue: being: a state of fear, confusion, anger of the few reasons As is probably the case with and often hate. It has been widely it is imperative to most national concerns, the situation in argued that this is due to a schism we preserve Tibet and Tibet does not have a real precedent in have created between the notions of i t s s p i r i t u a l our recorded history. It is wrought with “self” and “other”. Without launching tradition, and, paradoxes. Many countries sincerely into a further discussion on this since the interest in want to help but they are too indebted to profound topic (widely covered at the doing so is a global China (for example, according to Vancouver Peace Summit in 2009 with interest, it needs to Forbes, China owns $1.7 trillion of USA His Holiness as an honorary guest), it become a unified Treasury debt). China is suppressing would suffice to say that amidst all this approach. This Tibet, yet its interest in Tibetan suffering, violence, and confusion, we would be an approach which is not so Buddhism, even among some of its in the modern world are, in fact, much aimed against China, certainly not party leadership, is rapidly growing. desperately seeking a deeper unity against its people, but, hopefully, an We live in the age of information between the material and the spiritual approach involving China's imminent overload, yet people in the world remain through transformation of the inner self. cooperation. As Mr. Tsundue ill-informed about the real situation in We have much to learn from Tibetan encouragingly added at the end of his Tibet due to China's media censorship. Buddhism in this regard, whether we are speech, “We will win, not by fighting or These are just a few examples of the non-believers or believers of different challenging China, but by transforming difficulties. However, no doubt the faiths. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is China.” I am also a strong believer in solution to the Tibet issue can only be revered all over the world for his such transformation as the ultimate act found through the approach of embodiment of this wisdom and of non-violence. Inevitably, a powerful, nonviolence. Any other approach (that compassion by various religious unified movement can and will is, an approach involving any violence) leaders, scientists, politicians, and transform the “enemy” as it did during would not only be unrealistic given artists as well ordinary people trying to the Gandhi movement. But we need to China's economic and military might, cope in the modern world. More and join hands with the Tibetans now, and but also destructive to the very core more young people look to him for take this opportunity for peace and of Tibetan cultural heritage. This guidance, encouragement and even global transformation that the Tibet heritage is built upon the Buddhist inspiration in this too often self-serving issue is actually offering us. principles of wisdom and compassion world. At a recent candlelight vigil held We have seen the last 60-odd that inherently encompass the deepest in memory of the two latest self- years of this struggle pioneered by His and most profound understandings immolators, marking 107 at the time of Holiness. Would it be too bold to say of nonviolence. writing, the Tibetan writer and activist that we, meaning the world outside of I am only beginning to learn Mr. Tenzin Tsundue made this Tibet, reaped more benefit from this about Tibetan Buddhist principles. statement: first leg of the Tibetan struggle than the However, it is already clear to me that “Everywhere people are building Tibetan people did? After all, we gained any loss or compromise of their armies and terrorist networks to kill access to many treasures from the minds authenticity would be the ultimate loss enemies. But we have a culture, which of Tibet's scholars and Buddhist in this struggle, not just for the Tibetan instead of encouraging, inspiring, or practitioners. Perhaps Tibetans have people but for humanity as a whole. I even training people to fight other gained some similar benefit through this ask the reader to bear with my perhaps people with violent [means], our culture process, too. I don't know, but I hope so. clumsy and incomplete reasoning here; trains and encourages people to say that But there certainly has been too much I am a beginner in much of this. But one we have to forgive the enemy. Instead tragedy and suffering on their part, has to start somewhere. of looking at them as enemies, we look accounted and unaccounted for. How It is clear enough that world peace at them as teachers. This is the culture much have we, the global community, and nonviolence cannot come about that we practice. This is our strength! done to support them? The next chapter unless there is at least a basic state of And with this we will continue. If there of this nonviolent struggle needs to be a inner peace and inner commitment to is any conscience left in the world, Tibet more unified effort for any such change nonviolence within each individual. is the one. Through this unrelenting to take place. What exact approach will “Nonviolence is not a garment to be put commitment to non-violence we are usher in this change, perhaps only time on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, thus appealing to the conscience of the will tell. and it must be an inseparable [part] of world. This is the time we should stand our very being” (Gandhi, italics added). together and truly be the conscience we

6 HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT THE ACTIVE NONVIOLENCE EDUCATION CENTER (ANEC) TO PROMOTE LOVE, COMPASSION, PEACE, AND NONVIOLENCE 1. You can help ANEC through funding workshops, seminars, and conferences on peace and nonviolence. 2. You can help ANEC through individual donations or through fundraising on a bigger scale to support the production of resource materials such as DVD's, leaflets, and books on love, compassion, peace, and nonviolence. 3. You can volunteer to do public outreach and information dissemination in collaboration with ANEC. 4. You can always help ANEC by informing people about its aims and objectives. The first of these is spreading and promoting peace and nonviolence through various activities. The second is the continuation of ongoing workshops and public outreach programs. The goal of these workshops and programs is to educate people on active nonviolence strategies, which have the potential to resolve all human problems and disagreements. ANEC GENERAL WORKSHOP CONTENTS OUTLINE The following subject matter is covered in ANEC workshops and open forum discussions on active nonviolence strategies. They are effective and powerful alternatives to violence and hatred:

1.History, philosophy, and techniques of nonviolent resistance based on Professor Gene Sharp's “Guidelines on Strategic Nonviolence Methods” for peace, nonviolence, and democracy.

2.Traditional Buddhist concept of nonviolence based on love, compassion, transformation of mind, and altruism (to rightly interpret the message of Lord Buddha and His Holiness the Dalai Lama).

3.Encouragement of harmonious integration between the traditional Buddhist concept of nonviolence and the modern Western concept of active nonviolence.

4.Strategic nonviolence methods for achieving healthy democratic norms.

5.Gandhian philosophy of nonviolence with particular focus on the Gandhian Constructive Program, the Peaceful Non-cooperation Movement, and his steadfast adherence to truth and nonviolence.

6.Nonviolence philosophy as advocated and implemented by the 1964 Nobel Peace Laureate and world-renowned US civil rights leader Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the historic American civil rights movement.

7.Films on various case studies of nonviolent actions and active exchange of views and thoughts between facilitators and participants in a truly democratic fashion.

8.Emphasis on the importance of resorting to the above different philosophies and the practical implementation of nonviolent strategies for resolving disagreements. These strategies can resolve differences and problems at all levels of human society and can bring about the requisite changes and innovations for the establishment of strong, healthy, peaceful, and democratic societies.

7 Nothing Succeeds Like Non-violence Erica Chenoweth - Times of India 12th March 2011 The rebellion in Libya stands out among campaigns from 1900 to 2006. We after a few days of brutal crackdown by the recent unrest in the Middle East for found that over 50% of the non-violent his corps of foreign militiamen, an its widespread violence: unlike the movements succeeded, compared with armed but disorganized rebel fighting protesters in Tunisia or Egypt, those in about 25% of the violent insurgencies. force. A widely supported popular Libya quickly gave up pursuing non- Why? For one thing, people revolution has been reduced to a smaller violent change and became an armed don't have to give up their jobs, leave group of armed rebels attempting to rebellion. their families or agree to kill anyone to overthrow a brutal dictator. These rebels An while the fighting in Libya participate in a non-violent campaign. are at a major disadvantage, and are is far from over, it's not too early to That means such movements tend to likely to succeed without direct foreign ask critical question; which is more draw wider range of participant, which intervention. effective as a force for change, give them more access to members of If the other uprisings across the violent or non-violent resistance? the regime, including security forces Middle East remain non-violent, Unfortunately for the Libyan rebels, and economic elites, who often however, we should be optimistic about research shows that nonviolent sympathize with or are even relatives of the prospects for democracy there. resistance is much more likely to protesters. That's because, with a few exceptions – produce results, while violent resistance What's more, oppressive most notably Iran – non-violent runs a greater risk of backfiring. regimes need the loyalty of their revolutions tend to lead to democracy. Consider the Philippines. personnel to carry out their orders. Although the change is not Although insurgencies attempted to Violent resistance tends to reinforce that immediate, our date show that from overthrow Ferdinand Marcos during the loyalty, while civil resistance 1900 to 2006, 35% to 40% of 1970s and 1980s, they failed to attract undermines it. When security forces authoritarian regimes that failed to broad support. When the regime did fall refuse orders to, say, fire on peaceful cause immediate regime change. For in 1986, it was at the end of hands of the protesters, regimes must accommodate non-violent campaigns that succeeded, People Power movement, a non-violent the opposition or give up power – the figure increases to well over 50% pre-democracy campaign that boasted precisely what happened in Egypt. The good guys don't always more than two million followers This is why the Egyptian win, but their changes increase greatly including laborers, youth activists and President Hosni Mubarak took such when they play their cards well. Non- Catholic clergy. great pains to use armed thugs to try to violent resistance is about finding and Indeed, a study I recently provoke the Egyptian demonstrators exploiting points of leverage in one's conducted with Maria J Stephan, now a into using violence, after which he could own society. Every dictatorship has strategic planner at the State have rallied the military behind him. vulnerabilities, and every society can Department, compared the outcomes of But where Mubarak failed, find them. - NYTNS hundreds of violent insurgencies with Muammar Gaddafi succeeded. What those of major non-violent resistance began as a peaceful movement became,

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8 DID YOU KNOW ? The Truth in Ni Yulan’s own words AFP |Oct 5, 2013, 06.01 PM IST The Times of India BEIJING: Disabled Chinese activist Ni have said all along that the charges were her poor health and needed a respirator Yulan said today she had been freed trumped up to silence the rights to breathe. from jail but was in a very poor health defender. Her sentencing in April last year after spending more than two years She and her husband were sparked an international outcry, and the locked up for “picking quarrels”. detained in April 2011 as China rounded United States and both “I got out this morning at up hundreds of activist amid calls for called for her release. 8:30am. My husband and my daughter Trained as a lawyer, Ni began came to collect me, “Ni, who has been providing legal aid to residents facing confined to a wheelchair since home demolitions after her own sustaining serious injuries during an courtyard home in central Beijing was earlier stint in jail, said. requisitioned in 2010. “Right now I'm in a very poor T h e n e x t y e a r s h e w a s state of health because on top of the sentenced to one year jail for injuries I suffered when I was tortured “obstructing official business” and before going to prison, I'm suffering disbarred as a lawyer. from thyroid cancer and a lymphoma After her release she was behind my left ear, said Ni, who is in her confined to a wheelchair, which the 50s. rights group Amnesty International “It's been a year since I've seen blamed on abuse while in prison. the sun and I'm very weak. I'm first In 2008, Ni and her husband going to rest and see a doctor.” began living on the street after their In July last year, a court cut Ni's home was demolished, and Ni received sentence to 30 months jail after another jail sentence of two years for overturning a fraud conviction, but harming public property”. rejected her appeal against the charge of After a brief period of freedom “picking quarrels”, her Cheng Hai said. in 2010, police relocated her and her The court also rejected an appeal protest akin to the Arab Spring popular husband to a hotel and later requested against Ni's husband Dong Jiqin's revolts that erupted across the Middle them to pay the 69,000 yuan ($11,000) conviction and two year jail sentence on East. bill, which they refuse to do. the same charge. The activist spent much of the Lawyers of Ni and her husband trial lying in bed in the courtroom due to

“Gandhi made it impossible for us to continue to rule India, but at the same time he made it possible for us to abdicate without rancor and without dishonor” By Arnold Toynbee

“I do not believe in armed struggle because it will perpetuate the tradition that he who is best at wielding arms, wields power that will not help democracy” `Aung San Suu Kyi

9 World Peace from the point of view of a Peace Activist By Mark Tibet Roper (ANEC Friend, Counselor cum Peace Activist from the UK) dedicated to the noble cause of under economic pressure without spreading and promoting peace and violence. nonviolence in our constantly troubled If peace were truly the objective world. of the West and not just an excuse for It has sadly come to my mind warmongering or plundering that how there is an incongruence or particular country's assets, then to leave hypocrisy related to some countries in their countries in total disarray when the the West in particular the UK and forces of the West withdrawal as in the America on the question of world peace. case of Iraq, where once there was a Seemingly at any sign of dictator who was pro-Western, but after internal struggle from any other country the bombings has left the country in total in the world, America and the UK are anarchy. quick to send in attack forces against the Surely if peace were the true When my special face book friend Mr. particular nations that they feel need to objective of the West, then why leave a Tenpa C. Samkhar, Executive Director be subdued. In recent years this process very important and innocent people like of the Active Nonviolence Education has happened frequently, as in the cases the Tibetans to suffer in silence and Center (ANEC) and Former Tibetan of the war against Afghanistan, Iraq and isolation? If I were cynical, then I might Cabinet Secretary for Political Affairs most recently the threat of war against suggest that there is no profit from warmly invited me to contribute a short Syria. helping these innocent, peace loving write-up for the prestigious ANEC The excuse that is usually given people, other than the simple but truly Journal- "ANEC Messenger", I lost no is along the lines that a tyrannical leader priceless profit of truth, justice and time in accepting the invitation with is murdering people in his own country morality. tremendous delight and honor. or an adjoining country and that the Against this crucial back-drop, As a counselor cum peace West needs to step in to help these poor I would urgently call upon the West to activist residing in the people. As a trainee counselor and an wake up to save this unique and great and also a friend and well-wisher of advocate of peace, it occurs to me that country Tibet and its people that for ANEC, I naturally took this opportunity what is really required from the outside many centuries had remained a as a great honor and privilege for me to countries is extended talks and perhaps significant buffer state between the two be an active part of ANEC, a registered also to temporarily cease trading with Asian giants. Tibetan NGO sincerely and steadfastly these countries, thereby putting them

་་་་་་་ Continuation of Page 7 entrenched in Gandhi's beliefs and Minister at the time went so far as to say, strong and nonviolent when people spat techniques, is that power does not come “I would rather have this book than the in their faces, beat them, and even killed from the government of any nation, but nuclear bomb.” Recently, his writings some protesters, Martin Luther King, Jr. rather from the people populating the were used in the protest movement that led his community of African American country. Therefore, it is within the topped Egypt's president Mubarak and people to seek and attain racial equality people's power to decide how their the youth movement in Tunisia. Within under the law. In 1959, King took his country will be run. His handbook, the United States, Sharp's ideas and historic trip to India. When asked about “From Dictatorship to Democracy,” methodologies were used in the it, he said, “To other countries I may go was first published in Burma and then “Occupy Movement” against social and as a tourist, but to India I come as a translated into at least 31 different economic inequality, which spread pilgrim.” languages, serving as the basis for throughout the country and is still going Gene Sharp, another incredibly movements in , Georgia, on now. Thus, Sharp's work and influential American nonviolent writer Kyrgyzstan and Belarus. Lithuanians, influence is yet another example, and activist, says that the source of Latvian's, and Estonians used sharp's amongst a myriad of examples of many of his ideas was Gandhi's work book, “Civilian Based Defense,” during Gandhi's ideas and methodologies and ideology. A key theme throughout their separation from the Soviet Union carrying on through today's activist his writings, which is also well- in 1991. The Lithuanian Defense movements.

“Anger yields no benefit in this life and instead creates negative karma that will harm us in the future” Martin Luther King Jr.

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11 Gandhi versus Lenin By Professor P.N.Sharma, Former Principal, Government P.G. College, Dharamshala Former President, Indo-Tibetan Friendship Society, Dharamshala No two geniuses are alike; none can re- divided among hungry wolves, the it was a very very personal experience produce the personality of the other. imperialist nations of the west. It was a of infinite indignity or barbarism or both This is so because the personality of the world where more men were suffering that sowed the seeds of revolt in young hero of determined by the peculiar under imperialist domination than were minds; and each in his own way vowed circumstances of the needs and enjoying the free air of self rule. It was a to accept the challenge of his mighty requirement is his own nation, the world where the flame of freedom had oppressor. In South Africa, Gandhi was tradition and experiment of his own been extinguished over 70% of the s l a p p e d b y a w h i t e m a n a n d forbears and the peculiar and exacting population of our civilized race, where dispossessed of his rights to travel first demands of the circumstances in which the vast African continent was almost class by the race-conscious intruder. he has to work, the tools with which he wholly governed by white colonial Iron went into the soul of young Indian has to work, and the canvas on which he r e g i m e . L a t i n A m e r i c a w a s a barrister there and then and it was the to work. Not with-standing this dependency and Asia groaned under the beginning of Gandhi's twenty one year variance, there are always certain heels of its imperialist masters. In fact, it long epic fight for the rights of black distinguishing marks, a rather common was a world where hundreds and Indians in White ruled South Africa. denominator of T h e s e n s e o f character and of shock and injured s t e r l i n g innocence of the qualities and little school-boy certain common Lenin when his t r a i t s w h i c h e l d e r b r o t h e r prove that all Alexander was heroes are made arrested and later o f t h e s a m e executed by the stuff, of the c r u e l C z a r i s t same fibre and regime, can only o f t h e s a m e be imagined than mould. It is in described. There this context, and and then young with this belief Lenin decided his t h a t I s h a l l life's mission, ---- venture to bring the overthrow of out some of the t h e f e u d a l s t a r t l i n g m o n a r c h y i n s i m i l a r i t i e s Russia. between Lenin Both Gandhi and Gandhi. To and Lenin were no say that these beauties or eye- two great men fillers, physically were poles apart speaking. In fact, o r t h a t t h e y t h e y w e r e w e r e hundreds of millions had been forcibly reasonably ugly- diametrically opposed to each other is, deprived of the national state-hood and looking, short statured, stocky and to say the least, taking a very superficial of any social and political rights worth certainly not athletic in build. But, both view of the whole range of their the name. It was a world full of were imbued with the spiritual, inner versatile personalities. u n m i t i g a t e d e x p l o i t a t i o n , o f glow, both shone with the glory of the It would be interesting to humiliation, torture and of untold soul force which transformed their survey the political map of the world suffering. Thus Gandhi and Lenin were earthly mortal frames into immortal when Gandhi and Lenin were born a born in the same oppressive milieu of replicas of the human species, into gods hundred years ago. For that might help the latter half of 19th century. It would among men. Both were magnetic, us to have a correct perspective of the not be surprising, therefore, if both, capable of casting a spell on individuals making of these two super-men. What being acutely aware of the iniquity and as well as vast masses of people and of was the world like then? It was a world, exploitation around them, rose in revolt transforming dull-dross into our pure b y a n d l a rg e , u n d e r c o l o n i a l against the systems responsible for such gold. domination. It was a world territorially iniquity and exploitation. In both cases, (Please see rest in next issue)

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Indian and Tibetan friends and well wishers of ANEC during ANEC Day Celebration at the ANEC Office on September 10th 2013

ANEC Executive Director Mr. Tenpa C. Samkhar distributing Indian sweets to children in the neighborhood of ANEC Office on ANEC Day - Sept 10th 2013

ANEC Executive Director Mr. Tenpa C. Samkhar being interviewed by Mr. Kiva Bottero, reporter of Mindful Work Magazine, Quarterly journal from Canada at the ANEC Office on July 25th 2013

ANEC Training Officer Miss Tenzin Dasel giving talk on Active Nonviolence to senior students of Gopalpur TCV School, Dharamsala, June 2013

13 ANEC activities at a glance (February 2013 - August 2013)

ANEC Executive Director Tenpa C. Samkhar giving talkon Active Nonviolence Strategies to senior students of Tibetan Transit School Dharmsala in July 2013

ANEC Additional Training Officer Miss. Phurbu Dolma facilitating talk on Active Nonviolence to senior students of Upper TCV School, Dhramsala, June 2013

ANEC Training Officer Miss Tenzin Dasel brainstorming with the senior students of Upper TCV School, Dharamsala, June 2013

ANEC friends and well wishers Mr. Tenzin Tsephel, Former President, Tibetan Association, Bay Area, California and Mrs. Tenzin Yangkyi Sinzitsang from Oakland, California, USA visiting the ANEC Office in May 2013

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ANEC Additional Training Officer Miss. Phurbu Dolma facilitating talk on Active Nonviolence to senior students of Upper TCV School, Dhramsala, June 2013

ANEC Executive Director Mr. Tenpa C. Samkhar facilitating talk on Active Nonviolence to senior students of Gopalpur TCV School, Dharmsala, June 2013

ANEC Additional Training Officer Miss. Phurbu Dolma brainstorming with senior students of Gopalpur TCV School, Dharamsala June 2013

Group photo of ANEC Executive Director, Trainers, Principle of Lower TCV Schooland Benedikt and Leif D jongalong with student participants of the Pema Peace Project at the Lower TCV School, Dhramsala, June 2013

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