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GOKHALE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY’S H.P.T. ARTS AND R.Y.K. SCIENCE COLLEGE AND S.M.R.K.-B.K.-A.K. MAHILA MAHAVIDYALAYA, NASHIK, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA (On the occasion of the 71st Foundation Day of United Nations) International Chairpersons of the Congress Prof. Charles Mercieca, USA Prof. Surya Nath Prasad, INDIA Dr. Nenad Javornik, CROATIA President, IAEWP Executive Vice President, IAEWP Secretary-General, IAEWP Working Chairman of the Congress Sir Dr. M. S. Gosavi, Director General and Secretary, Gokhale Education Society, Nashik, Maharashtra, India State Chancellor of IAEWP for Maharashtra, India smrkbkakmm@rediffmail.com Prin. Dr. Mrs. Deepti Deshpande Dr. Vivek D. Bobade Director and Secretary, 19th World Congress IAEWP Convener, 19th World Congress IAEWP Zonal Secretary, Gokhale Education Society, Nashik Associate Professor, HPT Arts and RYK Maharashtra India Science College, Nashik
MEMORANDUM March 21, 2016
To: All IAEWP Officers, IAEWP Members from all UN Members Countries, Well-wishers and all those engaged in Peace, Peace Education, Peace Studies, Peace Research and from all Disciplines Subject: 19th World Congress IAEWP at SMRK-BK-AK Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Nashik, Maharashtra, India on 24, 25 and 26 October 2016 with the theme: Peace Education for Good Governance and Nonviolence Dear Friends, This is to inform you that we have re-scheduled the 19th World Congress IAEWP on the theme, dates and venue cited above. We take great pleasure in providing you a global platform for a purposeful dialogue to discuss the ways and means to solve the burning problems of Bad Governance and Violence. World over, people are suffering from hunger, disease, ignorance and physical violence. Therefore, in order to solve these problems, we wish to create awareness and promote the use and practice of Universal Peace Education. You are cordially invited to participate in the Congress actively and provide innovative and constructive suggestions to promote Peace through Education. You are further requested to send your names, if you wish to chair any session in the Congress. Papers with abstract on the topic (s) relevant to the main theme along with your resume and photograph may be sent to Sir Dr. M. S. Gosavi, Working Chairman, 19th World Congress IAEWP, Director General and Secretary of Gokhale Education Society, Prin. T. A. Kulkarni Vidyanagar, Nashik -422 005, Maharashtra, India, e-mail: smrkbkakmm@rediffmail.com Any other information about the 19th IAEWP World Congress, may further be obtained in the first Announcement attached with this Memorandum. International, Continental and National Coordinators of the19th World Congress of IAEWP are requested and advised to give wide publicity about the Congress. With warm regards and best wishes,
Sir Dr. M. S. Gosavi Working Chairman 19th World Congress of IAEWP
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19th World Congress of IAEWP scheduled to be held at Delhi on 29 , 30 and 31 May, 2015 has been postponed due to unavoidable reasons. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MEMORANDUMINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATORS FOR WORLD PEACE (IAEWP) (NGO Affiliate of United Nations – ECOSOC)
Prof. Charles Mercieca Prof.
Surya Nath Prasad Primarius Dr. Nenad Javornik
President, IAEWP Executive Vice President, IAEWP Secretary-General, IAEWP mercieca@knology.net dr_suryanathprasad@yahoo.co.in nenad.javornik@gmail.com MEMORANDUM December 10, 2014 To : All IAEWP Officers, IAEWP Members from all
UN Members Countries, Well-wishers and all those engaged in peace, peace
education, peace studies and peace research. Subject: 19th World
Congress of IAEWP at New Delhi in India on 29-30-31 May 2015 with the theme
“Peace Education for Nonviolence and
Solution of Terrorism”. Friends of Our Mother Earth! This is to inform you all that we have planned to hold 19th World Congress of IAEWP on the above cited theme, dates and place. We are going to provide you a global platform for dialogue to discuss the ways and means to solve the burning problems of terrorism, as the whole world is in its grip, and we accordingly wish to promote the practice of nonviolence through the awareness and use of peace education. If you are willing to participate in the discussions at the Congress, you are requested to mobilize your own resources to meet your travel and accommodation expenses for attending the Congress. Snacks, Tea/Coffee and Working Lunch will be provided free of charge to all the registered participants/delegates at the venue of the Congress. You may send your names, if you wish to chair the different sessions in the Congress, and your papers with abstracts on any topic(s) but relevant to the main theme and sub-themes along with your resume and photograph to Prof. Priya Ranjan Trivedi, Working Chairman, 19th World Congress of IAEWP, Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment, A42-43, Paryavaran Complex, Maidangarhi Marg, South of Saket, New Delhi-110 030, India, E-mail: iaewp@ecology.edu You may get more preliminary information about the IAEWP 19th World Congress in the Attachment as its First Announcement. Continental and National Coordinators of the 19th World Congress of IAEWP are advised to give wide publicity about the Congress. With thanks and best wishes,
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. Executive Vice President, IAEWP
FIRST
ANNOUNCEMENT
19th WORLD CONGRESS OF
IAEWP
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Organised by INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATORS FOR WORLD PEACE (IAEWP) (NGO Affiliate of United Nations – ECOSOC) Venue: Auditorium of India International Centre, 40 Lodi Estate, New Delhi (India) Dates: 29-30-31 May 2015 (On the auspicious occasion of the United Nations International Day of UN Peacekeepers) Theme: Peace Education for Nonviolence and Solution of
Terrorism Peace Education for Mitigating Peacelessness,
Violence SUB-THEMES: (i) Desire for Peace; (ii) Non-Violent Alternatives for Managing Conflicts; (iii) Democracy Education; (iv) Human Rights Education; (v) World View Transformation; (vi) Employment Generation; (vii) Peace and Non-Violence; (viii) Exploring Ethical and Philosophical Foundations; (ix) Creating Global-Local Cultures of Peace; (x) Culture of Healing;(xi) Peace Integrated Curriculum; (xii) Transformative Education DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: February 28, 2015 REGISTRATION FEE: US $ 50 (Rs. 1,000/- for Indians) INTERNATIONAL CHAIRMEN OF THE IAEWP WORLD CONGRESS Prof. Charles Mercieca, USA Prof. Surya Nath Prasad, INDIA Dr. Nenad Javornik, CROATIA President, IAEWP Executive Vice President, IAEWP Secretary-General,
IAEWP Professor Emeritus Former Visiting Professor, The Graduate Institute of Peace Studies Former Executive President
Alabama A & M University, USA Kyung
Hee University, Republic of Korea Croatian Red
Cross, Republic of Croatia
mercieca@knology.net Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Peace Education: An International Journal nenad.javornik@gmail.com dr_suryanathprasad@yahoo.co.in
WORKING CHAIRMAN OF THE CONGRESS Prof. Priya Ranjan Trivedi IAEWP Vice President for South Asian Affairs &State Chancellor for National Territory of Delhi President, Confederation of Indian Universities Chairman, Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment A42-43, Paryavaran Complex, Maidangarhi Marg South of Saket, New Delhi-110030, India Tel: +91-11-40543739, 41096948 Fax: +91-11-29533514, Mobile: +91-9910909350 E-mail: iaewp@ecology.edu Website: www.iaewp.asia CONTINENTAL AND NATIONAL COORDINATORS OF THE CONGRESS Dr. T. Y. S. Lama Gangchen (Italy), Mr. Lee Jon
Young (Republic of Korea), Mr. Rajwant Singh Sidhu (UK), Dr. Robert
Tafra (Croatia), Dr. Terence Edward
Paupp (USA), Dr. Bert Wolfs (Switzerland), Dr. S. S. Varatharajan (Malaysia),
Dr. Sergio A. Carranza (El Salvador), Dr. Abrao Razuk Haddad (Brazil), Lic.
Juan Pablo Acosta Garcia (Dominican Republic),
Dr. Josef de Ubaldo (Philippines), Dr. Taisir Subhi (Jordan), Mr. Samy
El-Gindy (Egypt), Dr. Aloise Makouele-Goma (Congo), Dr. Elizabeth Smit (South
Africa), Dr. J. C. Eric Germain (Mauritius), Mr. Peter Bentley (Australia),
Mr.
William V. Thompson (USA), Dr. Leo Semashko (Russia), Dr. David Williams (United
Kingdom), Ms Hsiao Lung Ogle (USA), Dr. Michael Whitty (USA), Dr. Nina P.
Litvinova (Russia), Dr. Alfonsus Roldan More (Spain), Dr. Dariusz Kwolek
(Poland), Rev. Master Dari Wu Hsi-Ming (Taiwan), Prof. Noor Gillan (USA), Dr.
Laj Utreja (USA), Prof. Bruce Cook (USA), Mrs. Sushila Chaurasia (India) Announced by Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. Executive Vice President, IAEWP
For details about the Congress, please go through the link cited below: http://iaewp.asia/IAEWP-19th%20WPC%202015%20India.pdf
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 Jan, 2015 Namrata Singh To me Hello Sir, Namrata Singh Difference between Mind and Intellect 01 February, 2015 Dear Ms Namrata, You will have to understand the concept of man before to understand about the difference between mind and intellect. It means what are the elements, which constitute the man (male and female both). It is well established fact that every individual is made of five elements, viz. body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit. These five elements are universally present in every man and woman without any discrimination of caste, creed, colour, race, gender, nationality, status any other differences. It means every man or woman has five bodies within, viz. physical, vital, mental, intellectual and spiritual. Each body requires particular food to grow. Integral unfoldment of all these elements makes man or woman just, peaceful, tolerant and nonviolent, but partial evolution/development/manifestation of these elements makes him or her unjust, aggressive/agitated, intolerant and violent. And denial of manifestation of all these elements due to having no means makes him or her slave or leads him or her to commit suicide. Now I shall try to explain the difference between mind and intellect (which are already within the five elements of man and woman) by citing an example, which will help you to understand between them. Imagine, there is a chariot with five horses, a person is holding the reign connected with the horses, and another person is seated behind him. The chariot is body (physical), five horses are five sense organs (eyes, ears, tongue, skin and nose, which help to control the body), the reign is mind, the person holding the reign is intellect, and the person seated behind him is spirit. Our physical body is controlled by our five sense organs, these organs are controlled by mind, mind is controlled by intellect and intellect is controlled by spirit.Observation and/or creation or participation in any one or more of art, painting, sculpture, music, dance, drama, poetry or any creative work depending on the interest or inclination of particular individual are the foods for mind. Learning and practice in science, technology, sociology, philosophy, economics, history, political science, talks, lectures, seminars, symposia and conferences are the foods for intellect. Knowledge contained in different disciplines is the key or stimulus for unfoldment/manifestation/creation of treasure of knowledge within every learner man or woman.But mind is mischievous without the control of intellect, and intellect is cunning without the control of spirit. Hitler of Germany, Mussolini of Italy and Stalin of Soviet Russia were cruel dictators of their respective nation-states, because they developed their physical bodies, minds and intellects lagging behind their vital and spiritual bodies. In ancient India, during the period of Rama, Ravan was cruel ruler, because he was highly developed physically, mentally and intellectually, but his vital and spiritual bodies were not developed. The same truth was with the heads of the states who were involved in the First and the Second World Wars. The terrorists who are mindlessly killing innocent people in the different parts of the world, and naxals who are murdering police personnel and common masses in different parts of the Indian nation have also not developed their five elements integrally. Sometimes, people who harm and kill their own relatives, and sometimes harm themselves by committing suicides, and sometimes kill themselves being human bombs to kill others have also not developed their five elements integrally.However, it requires perpetual knowledge, awareness, and training about our own selves, and means and opportunities to realize them integrally, because every man or woman is capable of solving his or her own problems provided he or she is aware about his or her inherent treasure of five elements and he or she perpetually tries to unfold these elements integrally throughout his or her life.I hope now you will be able to understand the difference between mind and intellect, and their relevance with body, vitality and spirit, the other elements in every man and woman. If not, feel free to contact me again with your queries and arguments.Education of man (male and female both) based on five elements as stated in the beginning is missing everywhere in the world. Hence I developed the concept peace education for inclusion in all educations within the campus everywhere with the advice for its practice beyond campus also by every man and woman throughout his or her life to be human for perpetual sustainable justice, peace and nonviolence.With best wishes,Surya Nath Prasad©Dr. Surya Nath Prasad---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RESUME Dr. Surya Nath Prasad is M. A. (Sociology), M. Ed. (Experimental Education), M. Phil. (Nonviolence and Peace Studies), and Ph. D. (Education). Dr. Prasad is a recipient of Honorary D. Lit. (Peace Education) at the hands of Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma then Former President, Government of India. . Dr. Prasad has taught for three decades as Assistant and Associate Professor of Education in India. He is Former Visiting Professor of Peace Studies at the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies in Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea. He is Former President and Currently Executive Vice President of International Association of Educators for World Peace (NGO Affiliate of United Nations – ECOSOC). Dr. Prasad is Hon. Associate Editor of Diplomacy Journal (Republic of Korea). He is a Member of Editorial Board of Peace and Conflict Review – A Journal of UN mandated University for Peace (Costa Rica). Dr. Prasad is Former Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of IAEWP Journal Peace Progress. Dr. Prasad is Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Peace Education: An International Journal. The Journal has ISSN number. Dr. Prasad distributes the Journal free of cost throughout the world. Dr. Prasad is a Co-Initiator of the Global Initiative for Supporting the Second Renaissance Movement through the Global Campaign for Restoring Morality and Humanity proposed by Nobel Laureate Dr. Herbert C. Brown and initiated by Dr. Young Seek Choue, Founder & Chancellor, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea. Dr. Prasad is a supporter and participant in the Campaign to promote an International Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers initiated by 17 Nobel Peace Laureate under the leadership of Nobel Peace Laureate Oscar Arias then Former President of Costa Rica. Dr. Prasad has visited Republic of Korea (6 times), Republic of Croatia, Republic of Turkey, Italy (2 times), Spain, Nepal (3 times), Philippines, Malaysia and Republic of Kazakhstan to deliver his presidential/keynote/guest/special speeches at the International Peace Conferences sponsored by the respective governments and/or universities on invitations taking responsibility of his travel and accommodation expenses. Dr. Prasad is recipient of several peace and human rights awards to the cause of peace and peace education. Website of his Journal is: http://www.sites.google.com/site/peaceeducationsnp/ One may reach him at: dr_suryanathprasad@yahoo.co.in MY YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK 1. Peace Education as Solution of Terrorism and Other Forms
of Violence by Dr. Surya Nath Prasad Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsRrHInBMwo 2. On Peace Education by Dr. Surya Nath Prasad - Interview at UCN NEWS YouTube Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS10fxIuvik
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. Executive Vice President, IAEWP (International Association of Educators for World Peace) Former Visiting Professor Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea Founder & Editor-in-Chief Peace Education: An International Journal E-mail: dr_suryanathprasad@yahoo.co.in, peaceeducationsnp@yahoo.com Website: www.iaewp.org, http://www.sites.google.com/site/peaceeducationsnp/ November 01, 2014 A Birthday Message to H. H. Swami Isa In 700 B.C., Vedanta, in 500 B.C. Lord Buddha, in 400 B.C. Socrates and some centuries later Jesus Christ said “Know Yourself”. Jesus himself prayed to the God, “Forgive them, Father, they know not, what they do!” But none gave any heed to practice them. If the peoples, particularly heads of the nation-states would have followed their advices there would be genuine democracy, good governance and nonviolence and sustainable peace all over the world. There is a great hope in 21st Century from His Holiness Jagadguru Swami Isa, who founded Isa Viswa Prajnana Trust and Global Energy Parliament has been enlightening the peoples of the whole world through his Scientific I-Theory - A Unifying Theory of Materialism and Spiritualism applying his novel Methodology of Education for Total Consciousness for the last many years for peace in the individuals leading to sustainable peace in the whole world. With these words, from the bottom of my heart I wish the great intellectual Saint His Holiness reverend Swami Isa a very happy birthday on his 60th birth anniversary and his healthy long life to the cause of peace foe all over the world.
With high regards,
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. Executive Vice President, IAEWP
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PLAGIARISTS IN PEACE EDUCATION shweta soy To Me 10 Sep RESPECTED sir ANOTHER ADDITION IN THE LIST OF PLAGIARISTS IN PEACE EDUCATION To shwetasoy@yahoo.co.in 24 Aug
24 August, 2014
Dr. Ms Sweta Smrita Soy
Assistant Professor
(Dept. of Education)
A. S. College, Deoghar,
S. K. M. U. (Jharkhand), India
Sub.: Stealing of my Ideas and other thinkers and
included in the article ‘Need of Peace Education in 21st
Century’ written by Dr. Ms Sweta Smrita Soy, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Education, A. S. College, Deoghar (Jharkhand), and seeking her apology for her mistakes committed Ref.: Posted at Google Search and published in
Acme International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research,
Vol. I, Issue VI, June 2013 Dear Dr. Ms Sweta,
I have gone through
your article: ‘Need of Peace Education in 21st Century’ posted
at Google Search and published in Acme International Journal
of Multidisciplinary Research, VOL. I, Issue VI, June 2013.
This article of yours
is full of plagiarism. You cut the ideas of others from different sources and
pasted in your so-called article. It is clear-cut
theft. It is learnt that you did research and obtained Ph. D. degree. But I
am surprised to see that you did not follow any rules for writing the paper.
You took the ideas of mine, other thinkers and from other sources, and included
in your paper without citing the names of the original authors and the sources.
You cited ‘References’ at the end of your paper. They indicate you stole the
ideas from these sources hiding some of them. You failed to reveal which ideas
belong to whom. Without giving proper citations in the text of your paper where
you wrote the ideas of others means you owned their ideas as your own which amounts
plagiarism (intellectual theft), and its repercussion is punishment and penalty
under the law.
Can you tell me
honestly, the ideas cited below which you incorporated/included under the
sub-heading Meaning of Peace Education of your paper belong to whom (the
name of the original author) and from where (the source) these ideas were taken
by you? :
“Meaning of Peace Education
Peace
education is education of man (humanity). It is manifestation of seeds of
integral culture of body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit. These elements
constitute every man and woman without any discrimination of race, caste,
creed, language, nationality and other differences. And this education
would continue perpetually till the end of life of every man and woman
unfolding integrally the treasure of physical, vital, mental, intellectual and
spiritual cultures within leading them to be just, peaceful and nonviolent.”
You cited several ideas of the
different thinkers in your paper including the above mentioned ideas which are
more than 40 words that require ‘Block Quotation’ as per the APA Style and
Format which you did not do so.
Now I would like to tell about the
truth about the knowledge which every man and woman have its tremendous
treasure within but due to ignorance about it they commit wrong after wrong and
are not ready to accept their mistakes, but to face punishment and penalty.
This is suicidal. This trend must be stopped by way of accepting honestly their
mistakes committed by them, and they must practice perpetual learning about the
capacity of their own selves by reading the great ideas of other renowned
thinkers of their disciplines, not for stealing their ideas to incorporate in
their papers, but for using them as stimulus and keys to open their own
treasure of knowledge within to be masters and creators of their own ideas.
First of all, I ask you
to withdraw your paper ‘Need of Peace Education in 21st Century’
from Google Search where you posted at, but you cannot do with the Acme
International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, because you paid them
for publication of your article. In fact, this type of journals, and particularly
this journal are rogue in the field of educational research which
promote plagiarism (intellectual theft/robbery) among the new teachers and
researchers, they should be very cautious, and should not be tempted to be
published through stealing others ideas to be pseudo thinkers. Secondly, I ask
you to tender apology for your mistakes of stealing my ideas and including in
your article with assurance that you will never commit such type of
intellectual crime in the writings of your future papers, and you will follow
the proper Style and Format (APA, MLA or any other, it will depend on your
discipline) for writing your papers in future and will amend them whatever you
wrote in the past.
Looking forward to
receiving your apology, say and reply of this letter within a week.
Surya Nath Prasad
NOTE: Dr.
Ms
Sweta Smrita Soy failed to submit her say till the time fixed for her,
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PLAGIARISTS IN PEACE EDUCATION
Today
plagiarism is rampant in every discipline of knowledge. Peace
education is also not free from wron-doing by the so-called
intellectuals.
There may be many, but the following four learned persons came to my notice who have stolen my ideas from my writings published in popular journals, books and encycloaedia, and they are: 1. Prof. A. Ranga Reddy (2007), 2. Mr. Kashinyadav (2010), 3. Dr. Loknath Mishra (2009), and 4. Ms Niharika Panda (2013).
People commit wrong due to
ignorance about their own tremendous knowledge and wisdom within. Though
all, including the above mentioned four persons, have treasure of
knowledge within, it is a matter of awareness and constant learning to
unfold them to be the masters of creation of their own ideas.
08 November 2007
To
The Editor
University News
Association of Indian University
AIU House, 16 Comrade Indrajit Gupta Marg
NEW DELHI-110 002
Sub.: Plagiarism and Proper Action for this
Dear Sir/Madam,
It is a matter of great regret and shame that maximum parts of our article entitled “Peace as the Role and Mission of University” published in University News, (Vol. 44, No.07, February 13-19, 2006, pp.12-17), were included and reprinted in the article: “Needed Global Peace Universities for Sustainable Gandhism” in the name of A. Ranga Reddy, Professor, Department of Economics, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, and published in University News, Vol. 45, No. 43, October 22-28, 2007, pp.9-13. Professor Reddy has completely copied the matters of our article cited above at the pages 12-17 in his article at the pages 10-12.
Kindly go through both the articles written by us, and Professor A. Ranga Reddy as mentioned above which were published in the two different issues of University News as referred above, and take corrective measures so that such type of intellectual robbery should be stopped in future publication of University News-a highly esteemed, popular and widely circulated Journal of Higher Education, and also publish a note in the forthcoming issue of University News about the misdeed committed by Professor Ranga Reddy.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanking you,
Yours truly,
Surya Nath Prasad
Suman Shukla
Copy to:
A. Ranga Reddy, Professor, Department of Economics, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati
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03 November, 2011
Kashinyadav
Manager Cargo
Chennai Area, India
Aviation and Aerospace
Airport Authority of India
Kashinyadav,
Your article on Peace Education posted on Scribd, dated 03/06/2010 is an act of plagiarism done by you.
You have taken all the matters in your article from the texts of writings of other renowned thinkers in the field of peace education to whom you have not acknowledged.
In the beginning paragraphs of your article, you have copied the word and ideas including all the 11 References out of many from the article on the theme: Access to Peace Education written by Prof. Surya Nath Prasad published in Online Encyclopaedia of Peace of Education, Teachers College Columbia University, New York, USA, 2008.
Your act of plagiarism is the subject matter of copyright infringement law and unfair competition, and attracts legal and monetary penalties. Sometimes, penalties for plagiarism can include criminal punishments and imprisonment, and sometimes, severe penalties like suspension or termination from the job.
Kashinyadav, firstly, tell me honestly, really you know the concept, and meaning of peace education, and its methodology of learning or teaching. Secondly, References which you have cited in your article are isolated. Every reference cited in the References requires its citation in the text of the article which you have not done in your article because you have not read and studied the articles and the books which you have referred in your article. The other reason is that knowingly you have stolen the ideas of others making them of your own hence you have not given the citation in the text of your article where you have written their ideas.
Why you copy the ideas of others while every individual (man or woman) has ample treasure within. It is a matter to open or manifest them. And he or she is capable to do so, and to be master of his or her own creation. Do not forget you can also be an original creator of the thing within you which you like most.
However, in the present circumstances, tender apology to the authors of articles and books for stealing their ideas and words for using in your article entitled Peace Education published in Scribd, dated 03/06/2010, and revise this plagiarized article of yours following the APA Style and Format.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Surya Nath Prasad
cc.:1.
Prof. Monisha Bajaj, Editor, Online Encyclopedia of Peace Education, Teachers
College
Columbia University, New York, USA
2. copyright@scrbd.com - under Scribd DMCA Copyright infringement notification
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28 April, 2013
To
Dr.Lokanath Mishra
Principal
Vivek College of Education
Bijnor, U.P.
E-mail: munumishra7@gmail.com
Sub.: Tender Apology
Dear Dr. Loknath Mishra,
Thanks for your letter dated 19 April, 2013 concerning papers for to be the edited book on the theme: Gender and Peace Education.
I have gone through your book in two volumes on Peace Education with the title: Encyclopaedia of Peace Education published by APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi in 2009.
Collection of papers in a book or books cannot be encyclopaedia. There are twelve chapters in two volumes of your Encyclopaedia of Peace Education. However, they are not properly arranged as per the requirement of an encyclopaedia. Go through the some standard encyclopaedias, like Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Social Science Encyclopaedia, Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences and other popular encyclopaedias.
In the instant two volumes of your encyclopaedia, you have assembled several ideas of expert authors in the discipline of peace education, however, unrelated and incoherently and without using/applying any standard norm of citation in the text of chapters in the volumes of your book followed by citation in the references, and there are several citations in the references which have no citations in the text of the chapters of your book. Some ideas of other authors are cited honestly mentioning their names, though citations are not proper, and are without using any standard norm and style of citation in the text of the chapters. At several times, ideas of other authors cited by you as quotations in the chapters of the volumes of your book are of more than 40 words which require the style of block quotation in the text citation. Even citations in the references of the book are not proper. There are standard rules for citation in the references also, which are not followed by you. You have written the ideas of other thinker authors owning your own at several places in the chapters of your book.
Now I come to the specific point. I would like to draw your attention towards Para 2, Page v of Preface of both the Volumes of your Encyclopaedia of Peace Education, and also Volume I, Chapter 2.2, Para 1, Page 22 of your encyclopaedia. The ideas written by you on the above cited pages in the chapters of your Encyclopaedia of Peace Education are not yours, but you have written owning them as yours. They are stolen ideas, and it amounts to plagiarism (intellectual theft), and you are responsible for this wrongful act, and its repercussion will not be good for you.
The only excuse for you is that you will have to accept honestly your mistake, tell the source of the ides where from you have taken and tell the name of the author of these ideas, and tender apology.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad
P.S.: At the bottom of your current letter just below your mobile number, you have cited a short quotation: TO REACH PEACE, TEACH PEACE” without mentioning the name of the original author speaker of the idea owning your own, it also amounts to plagiarism. Put the name of the author of the idea on your letterhead just after his idea in future correspondence.
My Advice to you: Consider and use others ideas as keys to open the locked treasure of ideas within you. Make never others ideas as your own. Use them to coordinate or to compare your ideas (which will come out by constant reading of others ideas with open and critical mind) either in favour or in contrast giving them proper credit applying the standard norm of citation. Follow APA Style and Format while you are writing a paper, a chapter or a book or an encyclopaedia.
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25 April 2013
To
Ms Niharika Panda
Lecturer
Nalini Devi Women’s College of
Teacher Education, Bhbaneshwar, Odisha
niharikapanda78@rediffmail.com
Dear Ms Niharika,
I have gone through your article on the topic – Peace Education: The Best Investment for Future Generation published in University News, Vol. 51, No.03, January 21-27, 2013.
Your instant article is full of stolen ideas of others. You have not followed or used any established standard norm, style and format in your article and even common sense for citation of ideas taken from the writings of other authors followed by citation in the references. There is no coordination of your ideas with the ideas of other authors either in favour or disfavour. Ideas of other authors quoted by you in the text of the article, though not proper, are not referred in the references, and there are several citations in the references, but relevant citations are not in the text of you paper. In some quotations, you have taken the ideas of others which are more than 40 words that require different style of citation in the text of the article.
Now I come to the specific point. And it is a great blunder committed by you when you have taken and used others ideas owning your own. Can you tell me, the whole ideas, which you have written owning her own under the caption ‘Conclusion’ in your article, are taken from whose writings? It amounts to intellectual theft (plagiarism), and its repercussion will not be good for you.
The only excuse for you is to accept your mistake honestly, confess and tell the source (from where you have taken and whose ideas are) with the promise that you will not repeat this type of wrong acts in future.
My
advice: Make APA Style and Format your friend and teacher before you start to
write a
paper. Believe on your
own ideas which are within you (and in every one) as
treasure, others ideas
are keys to open the locked treasure of ides within.
Looking forward to hearing from you very soon.
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad
Coy for information to:
The Editor
University News
New Delhi-110 002
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GLOBAL ENERGY PARLIAMENT
ON
THE SCIENCE OF PEACE IN HUMANS, HUMANS IN PEACE
SEPTEMBER 05, 2014
AT
WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
ORGANIZED BY
THE ISA VISWA PRAJNANA TRUST
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATORS FOR WORLD PEACE
ORGANIZING CHAIRMAN
DR. A. SUKUMARAN NAIR
FORMER VICE CHANCELLOR, MAHATAMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY
ANAYARA, P.O. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695 O29, KERALA, INDIA
Phone: +91-0471-2742533
E-mail: info@global-energy-parliament.net Website: www.global-energy-parliament.net
You may also reach at+91-9633922647, or mira@global‐energy‐parliament.net or chairman@global‐energy‐parliament.net
MEMORANDUM
The IAEWP President, the Secretary-General, all the Vice Presidents of different affairs and other Members of Executive and Advisory Boards, National Chancellors of different Nations, Special Consultants, International Liaisons, and Representatives to the UN in Geneva and New York are requested to attend the Geneva Global Energy Parliament on 05 September, 2014, and contribute with their intellectual talent and wisdom for peace in all spheres.
The IAEWP is a partner with The Isa Viswa Prajnana Trust which is organizing the Global Energy Parliament. His Holiness Jagadguru Swami Isa is the founder of the Trust and the Global Energy Parliament.
The above cited information and Website of the Geneva 2014 Global Energy Parliament will enlighten you for attending the Parliament.
With best wishes,
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D.
Executive Vice President, IAEWP
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The Global Energy Parliament is gathering for its 5th session in Geneva, to meet on the topic of “GEP2014: The Science of Peace in Humans, Humans in Peace."
The Global Energy Parliament (GEP) is an international body whose mission to provide scientific research, recommendations and strategies with the objective of ensuring a self-sustaining, peaceful existence for human beings and the universe. GEP is organized by the Isa Viswa Prajnana Trust, a charity organization in India founded by His Holiness Swami Isa.
GEP2014 is co-orgnized by the World Council of Churches and the International Association of Educators for World Peace is a Partner.
Aims & Expected outcomes of GEP2014:
1) To gather together as an international parliament, an assembly of experts in all sectors of society including Education, Science, Agriculture, Economy, Medicine, Diplomacy, Law, and Culture;
2) To discuss the issues, concerns and scientific data relating to the correlation between peace in humans and humans in peace (i.e., subjective & objective peace);
3) To collectively pass some Bills and Resolutions of the GEP pertaining to this topic, which will be submitted to all governments, calling on them to include it in their national legislation.
Some of the expected speakers include:
His Holiness Swami Isa, Founder of the Global Energy Parliament
Dr. C.V. Ananda Bose IAS, Speaker of the Global Energy Parliament
Prof. Ervin Laszlo, Philosopher & Founder, Club of Budapest, Hungary
His Holiness Dr. T. Y. S. Lama Gangchen, National Chancellor for the International Association of Educators for World Peace, Italy
Dr. Mathews George Chunakara, Director, World Council of Churches
G. Shankar, Architect & Founder, Habitat Technology Group, India
Dr. Folker Meissner, Founder of the German Institute for Energy Medicine & Bioenergetics, Germany
Dr. Christophe Dumas, Head of Solar Thermal, Atomic Energy Commission (CAE), France
Lidija Pavić-Rogošić, Director of ODRAZ Sustainable Community Development, Croatia
Julien Gueguen-Carroll, Advocate & Founder of G-C Avocats, France
Tentative Program:
8:30-10:30 Inaugural Function
10:30-11 Break
11-1 Morning Session
Briefing Session
Question and Answer Hour
Introduction of a Bill
Discussion on the Bill
1-2 Lunch
2-3:45 Afternoon Session
Call Attention Motion
Submissions by Speakers
3:30 Break
4-4:30 Afternoon Session cont.
Formation of Committees
Resolutions
4:30-5:30 Valedictory Function
6-7:30 Cultural Program
Registration
The event is free of charge and all are welcome to act as Members of the Parliament and participate in the discussions.
For more information, please contact registration@global-energy-parliament.net, or visit our website at: www.global-energy-parliament.net
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Call for
Papers
Peace Education: An International Journal,
We have changed the main theme of Vol. 18, 2012-2013 issue of peace Education: An International Journal. The new theme is- Dr. Young Seek Choue's Oughtopia: A Peace Dream to A Peace Reality, and this issue will be dedicated to world renowned peace thinker, peace activist and peace promoter Dr. Young Seek Choue, Founder and Chancellor of Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea and Perpetual Emeritus President of International Association of University Presidents, who died on 18 February 2012. Those who know Dr. Choue may write their papers and articles on his ideas and activities of peace and their experiences with him and send them in MS Word to the editor of the Journal on or before 30 June 2013 at peaceducationsnp@yahoo.com. The President and professors of Kyung Hee University are also invited to contribute their articles on Dr. Young Seek Choue.
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR PEACE EDUCATION JOURNAL
The main theme of 2012-2013 issue of Peace Education: An International Journal (ISSN 1991-5721) will be: Dialogue among Civilizations for Peace: The Role of Peace Education. The persons engaged in peace research, peace studies and peace education may send their papers on any topics relevant to the main theme for publication in 2012-2013 issue of Peace Education Journal on or before June 30, 2013 through e-mail at: peaceeducationsnp@yahoo.com
2014-2015 issue of Peace Education Journal will be on the theme: Peace Education for Stopping Violence in Educational Institutions. Papers on different topics related to the main theme of the issue may be sent for publication on or before December 31, 2014.
News about peace books,
peace journals, peace workshops, peace conferences, peace activities, peace
movements, jobs in peace institutions, reviews of books on peace education, and
any news related to peace and non-violence are also invited for publication in
these issues, and further issues of peace education journal.
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FREE DISTRIBUTION OF TWO UN BOOKS
The following two books of the United Nations are being given as Gift to Universities, Colleges, Libraries, Organizations of public interest, and reputed individuals in the field of research and education through Peace Education: An International Journal (Founded in 1977 for Free Distribution, ISSN 1991-5721), 216, Laxminagar, NAGPUR-440 022, Maharashtra, India- 1. A Vision of Hope: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations (Pages: 328, Weight:1Kg. 212 Grams) and 2. Human Rights: The New Consensus (Pages: 304, Weight: 984 Grams). The size of the books is large from the size of the normal books. Both the books are in paperback published by Regency Publications, London, U.K. for the United Nations.
Interested educational institutions, organizations of public interest, and distinguished scholars, authors and professors may receive these books at the address cited above by paying actual packing and postal charges only. They will have to write us that they would like to receive these books by Registered Air Mail Post or Ordinary Air Mail Post or Registered Surface Mail Post or Ordinary Surface Mail Post or Ordinary Book Post or Registered Book Post (if the requests for the books are from India).
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Let noble thoughts come to us from all universe - Rigveda, I-89-i
ISSN 1991-5721
PEACE EDUCATION
Vol. 17 Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Surya Nath Prasad 2010-2011
Global Governance for Security and Peace: The Role of Peace Education
Surya Nath Prasad 1 Prologue
Johan Galtung 3 Editorial: The UN, Peace and Peace Education
Young Seek Choue 5 Pax United Nations: Towards Global Peace through
Pax United Nations
Charles Mercieca 7 Pax United Nations Versus Pax Americana
Garveth Evans 10 National Government and Global Governance:
Meeting the Challenges of International Decision-making
Sir Shridath Ramphal
18 Peace in our Global Neighbourhood
Suman Shukla 23 Teachers for Helping in Maintaining Peace and
Security: The Goals of United Nations
Surya Nath Prasad 26 Global Governance for Security and Peace:
The Role of Peace Education – A Peace Speech
Betty A. Reardon & 35 Identifying Recent Publications of Significance
Surya Nath Prasad to Peace Education: A Request from Betty A.
Reardon and A Reply form Surya Nath Prasad
The Norwegian Nobel Committee 39Liu Xiaobo Awarded with Nobel Peace Prize
foe 2010
The Norwegian Nobel Committee 40 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and
Tawakkul Karman Received Nobel Peace Prize
for 2011
The El-Hibri Charitable Foundation 41Colman McCarthy Awarded with El-Hibri Peace
Education Prize for 2010
The El-Hibri Charitable Foundation 42 Gene Sharp Selected the 2011 Recipient of El-Hibri
Peace Education Prize
South Asia Association of 43 K. G. Vyas Honoured with Varah Mihir Award
Economic Geologists
UN University for Peace 44 Founder of the University for Peace passes away
Editorial Board of Peace Education 45 Sudden Death of Mrs. Saraswati Hardenia:
Journal A Condolence Message
Suman Shukla (Author) 46 A Book on: Peace Education: Retrospect and Prospect
(To be published in 2012 by Peace Education Publications)
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Prof. Surya Nath Prasad’s Contributions to Pace Education
The following information about Prof. Surya Nath Prasad’s activities highlight the ways in which Prof. Prasad has played, and will continue to play a role in expanding the field of peace education heightening its profile:
Surya Nath Prasad was born in 1942 in India. He is M. A. in Sociology, B. Ed.,M. Ed., M. Phil. (in Nonviolence and Peace Studies) and Ph. D. (in Education).
Prof. Prasad has received Honorary Doctorate in Peace Education from USA and in Education from Nigeria, D.Sc. from Sri Lanka, and D.Litt. in Peace Education from Netherlands at the hands of His Excellency Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, Former President of Government of India.
The title of his dissertation in M. Phil. research was Peace Education: Theory and Practice. It is going to be published in the book form soon. The topic of his thesis in Ph. D. research was Psycho-diagnosis of Mal-adjustment of Pupil-Teachers and their Therapy. It was published in the book form with the title Mental Health of Teachers.
Surya Nath Prasad has taught as a Assistant and Associate Professor in the colleges of education for the last more than three decades. He has taught as a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University in Republic of Korea.
Surya Nath Prasad has been perpetually developing, enriching and heightening the field of peace education for the last about 45 years since 1968 through continuous writing his novel ideas of peace education for broadcasting on All India Radio, for national and international conferences, publishing them in national and international journals and books, chapters in books and in encyclopedias, and also by founding an international journal, viz. Peace Education: An International Journal in 1975, and launching its inaugural issue in1977 on the Special theme of Role of Women in Peace Education, and distributing its issues Free of Cost throughout the world. It is all for conscientization of all types of people towards justice, nonviolence and peace.
1967 -Prasad wrote a paper on “Indian Population: A Survey”, which was published in SANSAR (The World) on July 06, 1967.
Again in 1967, he wrote a paper on the topic- “Legalizing Abortion: A License for Immorality”, which was published in Social Welfare Magazine in September issue.
It was published in the same year in SANSAR (The world) on 03 December and in AAJ (Today) on 17 December.
1968 - Prasad gave his talk on the theme: Family Planning: A Demand of the Era on All India Radio Allahabad, Lucknow, Varanasi and Rampur (At 8 p.m. on 8 July, 1968, also published in Sachitra Ayurveda, January, 1968 , pp. 115-118.
1969 - Social Conditioning of Mental Illness written by Prasad was published in Sachitra Ayurve da (a Journal of ancient Indian Medicines) in January, 1969 issue.
In 1970 - Social Environment and Mental Diseases: A Sociological Approach written by Prasad was published in Prajna (Wisdom) in March, 1970.
In the same year of 1970, he wrote a paper on the topic: Mental Illness as Social Deviance, which was published in Indian Journal of Social Research, Vol. XI,No. 2.
1971 and 1972 - Prasad actively participated in the seminars on “Teachers’ Attitude” and “Causes of Student Unrest” respectively held in 1971 and 1972 in the Faculty of Education of Banaras Hindu University.
In the same year in 1972, Education as the Way to Ease the Stress written by Surya Nath Prasad was published in Social Welfare, New Delhi, Vol. XIX, No. 9.
His paper “Education and Mental Health” was published in Samshiksha, No. 2, April, 1972. Education and Mental Health, Moral Education in a Secular State and Social Development in Children: A Global Need for World Peace were presented by Surya Nath Prasad in three different Sections of the 47th All India Education Conference held at Banaras Hindu University from December 27 – 31, 1972.
1973 - All the three papers of Prasad presented in 47th All India Education Conference were published in book form with the title Education: Mental Health and World Peace. It is basic search of the author and very thought-provoking seeking to expose education in relation to man’s fundamental nature and his composition with his mental health and peace in the society. The reviewer of this small book Dr. S. S. Mathur, Professor of Education, Lucknow University, India, writes, “The main idea underlying in these papers has been to reveal the new type of educational system, which according to the author, should be adopted in order to make it truly needful in maintaining and recovering mental health of the nation, and world peace” (The Pioneer, April 04, 1973).
Prasad was invited to participate in the 4th Triennial Meeting of World Council and the World Conference at Pondicherry Ashram held from December 15-19, 1973. He presented his paper on the theme: Education as the Way to Achieve World Peace and Unity. The central ideas in his paper were: “It is foolish to talk world unity without attaining world peace, and it will be more foolish to talk world peace without attaining peace at individual level. I mean if we set right the man or individual, we can set right the whole world. And it is easy to set right the man rather than to set right the world. And there is possibility that if man is set right, the world would automatically be set right”.
The above cited paper was published in Peace Progress (Japan) - A Journal of Peace Education, 1974, Vol. 1: No.1
1974 - Dr.Charles Mercieca, a Professor of Alabama A& M University, Huntsville, Alabama , USA, and founder of International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP) wrote in 1974 to Surya Nath Prasad, “Dear Mr. Prasad, your philosophy and vision are same as our Association, therefore I appoint you National Chancellor of IAEWP for India”. And in different periods, Prasad was elevated to the post of Deputy Secretary-General, Secretary-General, and elected international President four times of the IAEWP. At present Prasad is Executive Vice President of the Association. IAEWP is affiliated to five Specialized Agencies of the United Nations, viz. ECOSOC, UNCED, UNDPI, UNICEF and UNESCO.
1975 - Prasad attended and submitted his paper on the topic: Education for Peace and Prosperity: Retrospect and Prospect to the International Conference of the World Education Fellowship held at Bombay, India held from December 28, 1974 – January 05, 1975.
The above referred paper was published in Peace Progress Journal, Vol.1, No. 2,1975.
His paper: Spiritual Evolution and Education for Peace was presented in the 1st World Congress of International Association of Educators for World Peace held from July 29 – August02, 1074 at Bucharest, Rumania. It was published in Vidya (Education), Vol. 1, No. 3, 1975-76.
1976 - Prasad’s papers Minority Group Education in Asia: a Necessity and Self-Determination of Peoples: A possibility through Democratic Set-up were presented in the 2nd Asian Convention of the IAEWP held from August 23-25,1976at Sendai (Japan).
His paper Peace Education: An Alternative to War Education was published in Peace Progress Journal (Hirosaki University, Japan), Vol. 1, No. 3, 1976, and Gst of this paper was published in Journal World Education (New York, USA), Vol. 7, No. 4, 1976-77.
1977 - Though Peace Education: An International Journal was founded in 1975 by Surya Nath Prasad, practically it was started its publication since 1977. Prasad is the editor-in-chief of the Journal. He distributes its issue Free of Cost throughout the world. Every issue of this Journal is on Special theme of peace education. Its inaugural issue was on the theme: Role of Women in Peace Education. The editorial was written by him. Themes of other past issues of Peace Education Journal are: Gandhi, Nonviolence and Peace; Disarmament Education and Peace; Democracy, Education and Peace; Papers on Peace Education ( on the eve of 1986 UN International Year of Peace; Science, Religion and Peace; Justice, Law, Judiciary, Education and Peace; Utopia/Oughtopia, Education and Peace, Foundations of Peace Education; Financing Higher Education to build Non-exploitative Society; Global Governance for Security and Peace: The Role of Peace Education (in Press).
A talk on the topic “As our Elders so our so our Younger” was given by Surya Nath Prasad on All India Radio, Varanasi at 5.30 P.M. on 22 November, 1977.
1978 - Peace through Science and Religion was written by Surya Nath Prasad as Editorial for Peace Education Journal published in 1978.
In the same year, on the 26 June, 1978 AT 5.30 P. M. he delivered a talk on the theme: Education of Youth for Peace and Prosperity on All India Radio, Varanasi, India.
Prasad gave another talk on 19 December, 1978, at 5.30 P. M., on the topic: Democratic Education for Peace on All India Radio, Varanasi, India.
Prasad gave Presidential Address on the theme: Food for Peace through Education at the Second World Congress held from December 29, 1978 to January 2, 1979 at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Prasad was Organizing Chairman of the Congress.
1979 - Democracy and Education for Peace was the theme of the Editorial written by Prasad for Peace Education Journal, Vol. II,, No. 1, March, 1979.
1980 - Prasad’s paper: Democratic Education for one World and Peace was published in Peace Progress Journal (Thailand), Vol. II, No. 2, 1980.
Peace Education: An Alternative to War Education was presented by Prasad at the First National Seminar on Education for Peace at Deo Samaj College of Education for Women, Ferozepore, Punjab, India held from 14-15 October, 1980.
1981 – Prasad’s paper: Pornography as an Index of Criminal Propensity from Educators’ Viewpoint was published in Vidyaprasar Patrika (Extension Education Journal) No. 1981.
Prasad’s paper Education and Emancipation of Women for Peace was submitted to the UNESCO Expert Meeting on the Role of Women in the Education of Young People for Peace, Mutual Understanding and Human Rights held from December 7-11, 1981 at New Delhi, India. This was attended by Prasad on invitation of UNESCO.
Prasad’s paper: Peace an Alternative to the Future was submitted to the International Seminar on Alternative to the Future from 12-16 December, 1981 at Indian Institute of Oriental and Orissan Studies, Cuttack, India.
1982 - Prasad attended two days Seminar on Integration of Tribal from January11-12, 1982, S. P. College, Chandrapur, Maharashtra, India.
Prasad presented his paper: Education for Survival in the IAEWP World Congress held from November23-27, 1982 at George Town University, Washington, D. C., USA, and this paper was published also in University News, Vol. XXI, No. 10, May 15, 1983 and Vol. XXI, No. 11, June 1, 1983.
1983 – His paper: Religion and Science for Peace and Prosperity was prepared and submitted on request of Association on Zen International, Paris, France to the Symposium on Healing the Mind: The Primary Need of Civilization Today, held from May 7-9, 1983.
His paper: Education for Survival was published also in University News, Vol. XXI, No. 10, May 15, 1983 and Vol. XXI, No. 11, June 1, 1983.
Prasad prepared and submitted his paper: Education for Peace and Disarmament on request of UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education, Bucharest, Romania to the Conference on Education for International understanding, Cooperation, Peace and education Relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms held in 1983, and it was published in UNESCO European Journal of Higher Education, Bucharest, Romania, No. 3/83.
1984 – Dr. Prasad completed Orientation Course for Teacher Educators of Secondary Teachers Training Institutions located in Tribal Areas held at National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi from 3rd to 9th February, 1984.
1985 – Dr. Prasad’s paper on the topic: Paulo Freire’s Criticism of Educational System was published in Journal of Indian Education, Vol. XI, No. 2, July, 1985.
His paper University as a Sanctuary of International Awakening and Peace was published in University News, Vol. XXIII, No. 30, August 6, 1985.
A Guest Speech was given by Dr. Prasad to highlight the theme of the Seminar on the theme: Educational Technology and New Methods of Teaching at Shri Shivaji College of Education, Amravati University (India) on 26th December, 1985 on the occasion of its Silver Jubilee Celebrations.
1986 – Dr. Prasad gave Keynote Address on the theme: Peace Education as a Mass Movement at the Third National Conference of International Association of Educators for World Peace at Darbar Hall of Chanakya Hotel, Patna, India on October 2, 1986.
Dr. Prasad’s paper: Teaching Peace: A Challenge to Teacher Education and Peace Education: An Necessity for Peoples Peace were submitted to the Fourth IAEWP World Congress held at Innsbruck, Austria held from 26-29 November, 1986. Teaching Peace: A Challenge to Teacher Education was published in Journal of Indian Education, November, 1986, and Peace Education; A Necessity for Peoples Peace was published as Editorial in Peace Education: An International Journal, Vol. X, December, 1986. A Peace Education Directory prepared by Dr. Prasad was published in Peace Education Journal, Vol. X, December, 1986.
Dr. Prasad's name was proposed for 1986 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education, but that year Prize was awarded to the celebrated Brazilian educationist Paulo Freire. However, Assistant Director-General, Sector of Social and Human Sciences of UNESOC, through his Letter No. SHS/HR/86/1294, Dated 29 December 1986, wrote to Dr. Prasad, inter alia, "On behalf of the Director-General and on behalf of the International Jury , I should like to encourage you to persevere in your work for peace and to keep UNESCO informed of your activities."
1987 – Dr. Betty A. Reardon, Director, Peace Education Program, Teachers College Columbia University wrote to Dr. Prasad on April 20, 1987 commenting on 1986 issue of Peace Education: An International Journal: “Dear Dr. Prasad,
Thank you for the excellent December1986 issue of Peace Education. It will be a most useful resource for our Peace Education Program…Sincerely, Betty Reardon, Peace Education Program.”
The Research Paper of Dr. Prasad on the theme: Psycho-diagnosis of Maladjustment of Pupil–teachers and their Therapy was published in Indian Educational Review, October, 1987.
Dr. Prasad wrote an Editorial on the theme: Disarmament Education for Peace for Peace Education: An International Journal, Vol. X, December, 1987.
Disarmament: A Bibliography prepared by Dr. Prasad was published in Peace Education Journal, Vol. XI, December, 1987.
1988 –The candidature of Dr. Surya Nath Prasad was proposed by an American Professor Dr. Charles Mercieca of A & M Alabama University, USA, for the UNESCO Prize 1988 for Peace Education and his file was carefully examined by the International Jury. But upon the recommendation of the Jury , the Director-General awarded the Prize to Brother Roger, founder of the community of Taize (France). And through the Letter No. SHS/HR/88/776, Dated 05 September 1988, the Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO wrote to the nominator Dr. Charles Mercieca, inter alia, "On behalf of the Director-General and the International Jury, I should like to encourage Dr. Prasad to continue his actions for peace and keep us informed of his activities in this field."
Dr. Prasad’s paper Educational Technology for Human Dignity and Peace was published in Journal of Indian Education, Vol. XIV, No. 4, November, 1988.
Dr. Prasad wrote his Editorial on the theme: Gandhi, Nonviolence and Peace for Peace Education: An International Journal, Vol. XII, December 1988.
Gandhi, and Peace: A Bibliography was prepared by Dr. Prasad and published in Peace Education Journal, Vol. XII, December, 1988.
The name of Dr. Surya Nath Prasad was nominated in 1988 for the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation Award for promoting Gandhian Values outside India.
1989 – John Paul Eddy, Ph. D., Professor of Education, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203 USA wrote the Foreword for the book Mental Health of Teachers written by Dr. Prasad. Among many things, he wrote: “It is appropriate that Prasad a counselor, a professor-teacher, a scholar-researcher, and a leader in peace education write this excellent book to help all humanity.”
1990 – Dr. Prasad attended on invitation the World Congress on Human Rights at New Delhi sponsored by Jawaharlal Nehru University and United Nations Commission on Human Rights at Geneva from December10-15, 1990.
The book: Mental Health of Teachers written by Dr. Prasad was published by Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi in 1990.
1991 – Dr. Prasad delivered keynote address on the theme: Relevance of Peace Education at the Fourth National Convention of IAEWP at Trivandrum, Kerala India on 8th February,1991, and his Speech was included in the Relevance of Peace Education edited by Dr. K. S. Pillai and published by The Associated Publishers, Ambala Cant, India.
His paper: Education as Means of Altruism for Enduring World Peace in a Nuclear Age was published in the Souvenir of IAEWP National Convention at Trivandrum, India, February, 1991.
Dr. Prasad attended XV Annual Conference of Maharashtra State Secondary Teacher Educators at Nagpur from March 27-29, 1991.
Dr. Prasad attended World Conference of Religions on the theme: Religion and Human Solidarity at Cochin, Kerala, India from October 1-6, 1991.
Dr. Prasad’s paper: Education, Altruism and Peace was published inThe Primary Teacher Journal, Vol. XVI, No. 4, October, 1991.
1992 – Dr. Prasad wrote Editorial on the theme: Teaching Human Rights for Peace Progress Journal, Vol. V, No.1 & 2, 1991-92.
Dr. Prasad’s paper: Peace Education and International Community was published in University News, Vol. XXX, No.2, January 13, 1992.
Dr. Prasad participated in Hindu-Christian Dialogue at Varanasi from February 9-12, 1992.
Dr. Prasad delivered presidential address at the IAEWP National Convention on the theme: Global Peace and Development at Surat, India on 24th July, 1992.
Dr. Prasad gave Presidential Address on the topic: Teaching Human Rights for Global Peace at the IAEWP 6th World Congress held at Malta from 23-28 November, 1992.
1993 – Dr. Prasad wrote on the theme: Human Rights for Peace which was published in Lokmat Times, 21March, 1993.
Chief Guest Speech on the topic: Total Literacy for World Peace was given at the West India Zonal Conference of IAEWP at Bardoli, India on 10th December, 1993. His speech was published in International Educator, Vol. 8, No. 2 & 3, 1993.
1994 – Dr, Prasad gave Presidential Address on the theme: Twenty-first Century School for Nonviolence at the 7th World Congress, Petersberg, Russia on 22 May1994. This was published in International Educator, Vol. 9, No. 1 & 2, and
also in Journal of Indian Education, Vol. XX, No. 3, September, 1994.
Dr. Prasad delivered Guest Speech on the topic: Education for Human Rights
at the IAEWP Convention on 10 December, 1994 at the Kevadiya Colony, Gujarat, India.
1995 – Dr. Prasad delivered Keynote Speech on the theme: Education for Peace at District Institute of Education and Training, Bhopal, India on 10th May, 1995, and his Speech was published in University News, and speech was published in University News, Vol. XXXIII 19 June, 1995.
Education for Tolerance for Peace was the theme of Dr. Prasad’s Keynote Speech delivered at the 14th Kerala State Convention of IAEWP at Kannur, Kerala, India on 17th September, 1995, and his Speech was published in International Educator (Peace Education Special), Vol. X, No. 3, 1995.
1996 – Dr. Prasad wrote paper on the topic: My Favourite Reading: Books on Peace Education on the request of the Editor of the Journal, which was published in University News, Vol. XXXIV, 12 February, 1996.
Dr. Prasad gave his Presidential Address on the theme: Education for Eradication of Poverty for Peace at the Eighth Indian National Convention of IAEWP at the Government College of Education, Ujjain, M. P., India on 22 June, 1996, and his Address was published in International Educator, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1996.
A paper entitled: Education for Justice and Peace: The Role of the UN International Year of Peace and its Future Tasks was presented by Dr. Prasad as a Panelist at the 1996 International Peace Conference held at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea from 17-19, September, 1996.
Presidential Address was given by Dr. Prasad on the theme: Peace Education Program and Studies for Perpetually Just, Nonviolent and Peaceful Society at the Eighth World Congress of IAEWP held in collaboration with Croatian Red Cross at Split, Croatia from 26 November – 1 December 1996.
1997 – Dr. Prasad’s paper on the topic: Teaching Human Rights for Global Peace was published in UN News, 15-30 June, 1997.
Presidential Address was given by Dr. Prasad on the theme: Education for Environment and Peace at the International Eurasian Congress on 4th August, 1997at the Karadeniz Technical University, Giresun, Republic of Turkey (held from 2-9 August, 1997).
The Paper: Development of Peace Education in India written by Dr. Prasad was published in International Educator, Vol. XII, No. 2, December, 1997.
Dr. Prasad delivered Guest of Honour Speech on the theme: Ecological Literacy for All for Peace at the 6th World Environment Congress at India International Centre, New Delhi organized by Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment, New Delhi from 21-23 December, 1997.
1998 – Upon the request of Nobel Peace Laureate Oscar Arias through his letter dated 8th December, 1997, Dr. Surya Nath Prasad endorsed his campaign, and is supporter and participant since 2nd February, 1998 in the Campaign to promote an International Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers initiated by 17 Nobel Peace Laureates under the leadership of Nobel Peace Laureate Oscar Arias.
Upon the unanimous recommendation of the members of Organizing and Committee and the request of Dr. Young Seek Choue, Initiator of the Global Initiative for Supporting the Second Renaissance Movement through Global Campaign for Restoring Morality and Humanity, Dr. Surya Nath Prasad acknowledged his commitment as a co-initiator for the movement and the campaign since 1998. This was proposed by Nobel Laureate Dr. Herbert C. Brown and initiated by Prof. Young Seek Choue , Founder and Chancellor of Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea.
Guest of Honour Speech was given by Dr. Prasad on the Theme: Education for Mental Health and Peace at the 2nd World Congress on Alternative Medicines and Peace at the Himalyan Healing Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal on 26th February, 1998.
Dr. Prasad’s Speech: Education for Environment and Peace was published under the scheme of Peace Education Mini-prints, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden, No. 92, April, 1998, and it is in Circulation through ERIC (Education Research Information Center), Washington, DC. USA .
Dr. Prasad gave a Guest of Honour Speech on the theme: University as a Sanctuary for International Awakening and Peace at the opening ceremony of The Global Open University for Peace at Bagni di Lucca, Italy on 5th June, 1998.
A Special Speech on the theme: Global Man as the Vision for the Next Millennium was given by Dr. Prasad at the International Peace Conference at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, on 26th September, 1998.
1999 – A Special Speech on the theme: Education, Religion and Peace was delivered by Dr. Prasad on 20 February, 1999 at the 5th World Congress of Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation (Milan, Italy) held at Kathmandu, Nepal.
A Speech on the theme: Education, Man, Democracy and Peace was given by Dr. Prasad at the World Congress of Global Open University, Padova, Italy on3rd May, 1999.
A Speech on the topic: IAEWP and the Role of Education for peace was given by Dr. Prasad at the First Italian Convention of IAEWP at Milan, Italy on 4rth May, 1999.
A Speech on the theme: Religion and Science for Peace was given by Dr. Prasad at the Spiritual Forum, Madrid, Spain on 6th May, 1999.
A Speech on the topic: Mental Hygiene and Peace was given by Dr. Prasad at the World Congress of Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation, Madrid, Spain on 7th May, 1999.
A Speech on the theme: Importance of Peace Education was delivered by Dr. Prasad at the World Peace Congress at Madrid, Spain on 8th May, 1999.
A Speech on theme: Peace: The Role and Mission of the University for the New Millennium, and on the topic: Peace Education were given by Dr. Prasad at the 1999 Seoul International Conference of University Presidents on 13th October, 1999 at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
A Speech on the theme: Building Democracy and One World: The Role of NGOs in the 21st Century was given by Dr. Prasad at the 1999 Seoul International Conference of NGOs held from 10-16 October, 1999 at Seoul, Republic of Korea.
2000 – A Keynote Speech on the theme: Education, Healing and Peace was delivered by Dr. Prasad on 11 February, 2000 at the Lama Gangchen Peace Foundation at the Himalyan Healing Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Dr. Prasad’s Speech: Peace: The Role and Mission of the University for the New Millennium was published in University Today, Vol. XX, No. 8, April, 2000.
Peace Education in the New Millennium written by Dr. Prasad was published in the Journal Education in Asia, Vol. XX, No. 3, April-May-June, 2000.
A Speech on the theme: Global Governance for Security and Peace of All: The Role of Peace Education was given by Dr. Prasad at the International Peace Conference, Seoul, Republic of Korea on 18th September, 2000.
A Presidential Speech on the theme: The Role of Educators in Promoting Peace was given by Dr. Prasad at the Global Assembly of Educators for World Peace at New Delhi, India on 23rd December, 2000.
2001 – A Chief Guest Speech on the theme: The Concept of Man and Integral Education was given by Dr. Prasad at the National Workshop on Education for Universal Consciousness at Trivandrum, Kerala, India on 4rth February, 2001.
A Special Speech was delivered by Dr. Prasad at the Wrap-up Plenary Session of the International Peace Conference on the theme: Toward a Global Common Society for Peace through Dialogue among Civilizations on 27th September, 2001.
2002 – A Chief Guest Speech was given by Dr. Prasad on the theme: Restructuring Education based on Spiritualism at the National Seminar, Trivandrum, Kerala, India on 9th March, 2002.
2003- A book entitled: Science, Religion and Peace was edited by Dr. Prasad with Dr. Suman Shukla , which was published by IAEWP from Nagpur, India in 2003. Prof. Johan Galtung, pioneer peace research and father of Peace Studies wrote the FOREWORD for this book of Dr. Prasad.
Dr. Prasad gave his speech on the theme: Education for Democracy to build a Global Common Society for Peace at the International Academic Peace Conference held in Manila, the Philippines, September19-20, 2003.
2004 – Dr. Prasad was invited by the Rector, The Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Krea on the recommendation of the Chancellor of the university to teach as a Visiting Professor at The Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea for the Spring Semester, 2004. Dr. Prasad was assigned to teach the course on History of Peace Ideas. This course reviews great thinkers’ peace ideas.
2005 – Dr. Prasad wrote the Editorial on the theme: Justice, Law, Judiciary, Education and Peace for Peace Education; An International Journal, Vol. 13, 2005. Education for Justice and Peace written Dr. Prasad with Dr Suman Shukla was published in this issue of the Journal.
2006 – Utopia/Oughtopia, Education and Peace was the theme of the Editorial written by Dr. Prasad for Peace Education: An International Journal, Vo.14, 2006.
2007 – Dr. Prasad’s paper on the theme: Misconception and Right Concept of Peace Education was published in Peace Education: An International Journal, Vol. 15, 2007.
2008 – Dr. Prasad gave his Speech as chief guest on the theme: Importance of Peace Education at the At the Seminar and Performance on Indian Cultural Heritage and World Peace at Mumbai, India on 5th July, 2008.
Dr. Prasad delivered Guest Speech on the theme: Peace Education: Medicine and Tonic for Nonviolence on 30 October, 2008 at the 18th IAEWP World Peace Congress held in Malaysia (from October 29-31 2008), and it was published in Peace and Conflict Monitor – a Journal of UN mandated University for Peace - on 2 December, 2008.
Access to Peace Education written by Dr. Prasad on invitation was included in Online Encyclopedia of Peace Education edited Monisha Bajaj and published by Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA. in 2008.
2009 – Dr. Prasad wrote Editorial on the theme: Financing Higher Education to Build Non-exploitative Society for the Special Issue of Peace Education: An International Journal, Vol. 16, 2009.
2010 – On the theme: Peace and Nonviolence was written by Dr. Prasad for Focus Column of Sang Saeng (Living Together-Helping Each Other) –a Magazine of Asia Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) under the auspices UNESCO, Seoul, Republic of Korea on the request of its Editor-in-Chief Kwang-Hyun Kim on the eve of UN International Decade of Culture of Peace and Nonviolence (2001-2010), which was published in the issue No. 27, Spring 2010.
Peace Education as Solution of Terrorism and other Forms of Violence was the theme of Dr. Prasad’s Speech which was delivered at The World Forum of Spiritual Culture, Astana, Kazakhstan on October 19, 2010 (held from Oober18-20, 2010).
Dr. Prasad wrote on the theme: Peace Education: Concept and Meaning for World Encyclopedia of Nonviolence on the request of its Editor Prof. Nankishore Acharya, which was published byPrakrit Bharati Academy, Japur, India in 2010.
2011- Dr. Prasad delivered his guest speech on the theme of the International Seminar: Future Education and World Peace at Bhagalpur, India on 6th November, 2011organized by Bhartiya Shiksha Shodh Sansthan (Indian Education Research Institute) in collaboration with Bhgalpur Univrsity, India.
Dr. Prasad’s Malaysia Speech: Peace Education: Medicine and Tonic for Nonviolence was published in Miracle of Teaching, Sept./October/Nov./ December, 2011.
Dr.Prasad ‘s paper on the theme: MANIFESTATION OF INHERENT ELEMENTS OF MAN FOR CREATION OF VALUES FOR SUSTAINABLE PEACE was published in Darshan (Philosophy), December23, 2011.
2012 - Dr. Prasad’s paper: MANIFESTATION OF INHERENT ELEMENTS OF MAN FOR CREATION OF VALUES FOR SUSTAINABLE PEACE was published also in Peace and Conflict Monitor, on 17 January, 2012.
Dr. Prasad’s paper: Global Man (Human) as the Vision for the Third Millennium: The Role of Peace Education was published in Peace and Conflict Monitor – a Journal of UN mandated University for Peace - on February 14, 2012.
Dr. Prasad gave a speech on the theme: World Peace and Conflict Resolution at the International Rotary Club, Nagpur West on February, 2012.
Brief of Dr. Prasad’s s Speech on the theme: Global Governance for Security and Peace of All: The Role of Peace Education was published in Peace and Conflict Monitor – a Journal of UN mandated University for Peace - on June 1, 2012.
Special Note
2011 issue of Peace Education: An International Journal is in the Press, which is on the theme: Global Governance for Peace and Security: The Role of Peace Education.
2012 issue of Peace Education: An International Journal will be on the theme: Dialogue among Civilizations for Peace.
2013 issue of Peace Education: An International will has been planned to be published on the theme: Role of different Religions in Peace Education.
2014 issue of Peace Education Journal will be on the theme: Peace Education for Stopping Violence in Educational Institutions.
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PEACE PUBLICATIONS, SPEECHES AND ACTIVITIES OF
PROF. SURYA NATH PRASAD
(Including Publications Listed in Main Publications)
In 1967 -Prasad wrote a paper on “Indian Population: A Survey”, which was published in SANSAR (The World) on July 06, 1967.
Again in 1967, he wrote a paper on the topic- “Legalizing Abortion: A License for Immorality”, which was published in Social Welfare Magazine in September issue.
It was published in the same year in SANSAR (The world) on 03 December and in AAJ (Today) on 17 December.
In 1968 - Prasad gave his talk on the theme: Family Planning: A Demand of the Era on All India Radio Allahabad, Lucknow, Varanasi and Rampur (At 8 p.m. on 8 July, 1968, also published in Sachitra Ayurveda, January, 1968 , pp. 115-118.
In 1969 - Social Conditioning of Mental Illness written by Prasad was published in Sachitra Ayurve da (a Journal of ancient Indian Medicines) in January, 1969 issue.
In 1970 - Social Environment and Mental Diseases: A Sociological Approach written by Prasad was published in Prajna (Wisdom) in March, 1970.
In the same year of 1970, he wrote a paper on the topic: Mental Illness as Social Deviance, which was published in Indian Journal of Social Research, Vol. XI, No. 2.
In 1971 and 1972 - Prasad actively participated in the seminars on “Teachers’ Attitude” and “Causes of Student Unrest” respectively held in 1971 and 1972 in the Faculty of Education of Banaras Hindu University. In the same year in 1972, Education as the Way to Ease the Stress written by Surya Nath Prasad was published in Social Welfare, New Delhi, Vol. XIX, No. 9.
His paper “Education and Mental Health” was published in Samshiksha, No. 2, April, 1972. Education and Mental Health, Moral Education in a Secular tate and Social Development in Children: A Global Need for World Peace were presented by Surya Nath Prasad in three different Sections of the 47th All India Education Conference held at Banaras Hindu University from December 27 – 31, 1972.
In 1973 - All the three papers of Prasad presented in 47th All India Education Conference were published in book form with the title Education: Mental Health and World Peace. It is basic search of the author and very thought-provoking seeking to expose education in relation to man’s fundamental nature and his composition with his mental health and peace in the society. The reviewer of this small book Dr. S. S. Mathur, Professor of Education, Lucknow University, India, writes, “The main idea underlying in these papers has been to reveal the new type of educational system, which according to the author, should be adopted in order to make it truly needful in maintaining and recovering mental health of the nation, and world peace” (The Pioneer, April 04, 1973).
In 1973 - Prof. Prasad was invited to participate in the 4th Triennial Meeting of World Council and the World Conference at Pondicherry in India held from December 15-19, 1973, where he spoke on the theme: Education as the Way to Achieve World Peace and Unity.
In1974 - Education as the Way to Achieve World Peace and Unity was published in Peace Progress Journal (Hirosaki University, Japan) in1974, Vol. 1: No.1
In 197 - Prof. Prasad’s speech on Spiritual Evolution and Education for Peace was presented at the 1st World Congress of International Association of Educators for World Peace held from July 29 – August 02, 1074 at Bucharest, Rumania.
In 1975 - Prof. Prasad spoke on the topic: Education for Peace and Prosperity: Retrospect and Prospect at the International Conference of the World Education Fellowship held at Bombay, India from December 28, 1974 – January 05, 1975, and this was published in Peace Progress Journal (Hirosaki University, Japan), Vol.1, No. 2, 1975.
In 1976 - Prof. Prasad presented his views on the topic: Self-Determination of Peoples: A Possibility through Democratic Set-up at the 2nd Asian Convention of the IAEWP held from August 23-25,1976at Sendai (Japan), and also in the same year Prof. Prasad’s paper: Peace Education: An Alternative to War Education was published in Peace Progress Journal (Hirosaki University, Japan), Vol. 1, No. 3, 1976
In 1977 - Prof. Prasad founded Peace Education: An International Journal for free distribution, for inter alia, alerting public opinion and mobilizing the conscience of mankind to the cause of justice, peace, democracy, disarmament, protection of environment and human rights, and he wrote his editorial on Role of Women in Peace Education for 1977 inaugural issue of the journal.
In the same year, Prof. Prasad gave a talk on the topic “As our Elders so our so our Younger” on All India Radio, Varanasi at 5.30 P.M. on 22 November, 1977.
In 1978 - Prof. Prasad wrote Editorial on the theme: Peace through Science and Religion for March 1978 issue of Peace Education: An International Journal.
In the same year, on the 26 June, 1978 at 5.30 P. M. he delivered a talk on the theme: Education of Youth for Peace and Prosperity on All India Radio, Varanasi, India.
Prasad gave another talk on 19 December, 1978, at 5.30 P. M., on the topic: Democratic Education for Peace on All India Radio, Varanasi, India.
Prasad gave Presidential Address on 29 December, 1978 on the theme: Food for Peace through Education at the Second World Congress of International Association of Educators for World Peace held from December 29, 1978 to January 2, 1979 at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Prasad was Organizing Chairman of the Congress.
In1979 - Prof. Prasad wrote Editorial on Democracy and Education for Peace for March, 1979 issue of Peace Education Journal.
In 1980 - Prof. Prasad’s paper: Democratic Education for one World and Peace was published in Peace Progress Journal (Thailand), Vol. II, No. 2, 1980.
In 1981 - Prof. Prasad submitted his paper on Education and Emancipation of Women for Peace to the UNESCO Expert Meeting on the Role of Women in the Education of Young People for Peace, Mutual Understanding and Human Rights held from December 7-11, 1981 at New Delhi, India. This was attended by Prof. Prasad on invitation of UNESCO.
Prasad’s paper: Peace an Alternative to the Future was submitted to the International Seminar on Alternative to the Future from 12-16 December, 1981 at Indian Institute of Oriental and Orissan Studies, Cuttack, India.
In 1982 - Prof. Prasad presented his paper: Education for Survival in the IAEWP World Congress held from November23-27, 1982 at George Town University, Washington, D. C., USA.
In 1983 - Prof. Prasad submitted his paper: Religion and Science for Peace and Prosperity on request of Association on Zen International, Paris, France to the Symposium on Healing the Mind: The Primary Need of Civilization Today, held from May 7-9, 1983.
Prof. Prasad’s paper: Education for Survival was published also in University News, Vol. XXI, No. 10, May 15, 1983 and Vol. XXI, No. 11, June 1, 1983.
Prof. Prasad prepared and submitted his paper: Education for Peace and Disarmament on request of UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education, Bucharest, Romania to the Conference on Education for International understanding, Cooperation, Peace and education relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms held in 1983, and it was published in UNESCO European Journal of Higher Education, Bucharest, Romania, No. 3/83.
In 1984 - Prof. Prasad completed Orientation Course for Teacher Educators of Secondary Teachers Training Institutions located in Tribal Areas held at National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi from 3rd to 9th February, 1984.
In 1985 - Prof. Prasad’s paper on the topic: Paulo Freire’s Criticism of Educational System was published in Journal of Indian Education, Vol. XI, No. 2, July, 1985.
His paper University as a Sanctuary of International Awakening and Peace was published in University News, Vol. XXIII, No. 30, August 6, 1985.
A Guest Speech was given by Prof. Prasad to highlight the theme of the Seminar on the theme: Educational Technology and New Methods of Teaching at Shri Shivaji College of Education, Amravati University (India) on 26th December, 1985 on the occasion of its Silver Jubilee Celebrations.
In 1986 - Prof. Prasad gave Keynote Address on the theme: Peace Education as a Mass Movement at the Third National Conference of International Association of Educators for World Peace at Darbar Hall of Chanakya Hotel, Patna, India on October 2, 1986 on the eve of UN International Year of Peace
Prof. Prasad’s paper: Teaching Peace: A Challenge to Teacher Education and Peace Education: An Necessity for Peoples Peace were submitted to the Fourth IAEWP World Congress held at Innsbruck, Austria held from 26-29 November, 1986.
Teaching Peace: A Challenge to Teacher Education was published in Journal of Indian Education, November, 1986, and Peace Education; A Necessity for Peoples Peace was published as Editorial in Peace Education: An International Journal, Vol. X, December, 1986.
A Peace Education Directory prepared by Prof. Prasad was published in Peace Education Journal, Vol. X, December, 1986.
In 1987 - Dr. Betty A. Reardon, Director, Peace Education Program, Teachers College Columbia University wrote to Prof. Prasad on April 20, 1987 commenting on 1986 issue of Peace Education: An International Journal: “Dear Dr. Prasad, Thank you for the excellent December1986 issue of Peace Education. It will be a most useful resource for our Peace Education Program…Sincerely, Betty Reardon, Peace Education Program.”
In 1987 Dr. Prasad wrote an Editorial on the theme: Disarmament Education for Peace for Peace Education: An International Journal, Vol. X, December, 1987.
In 1988 - Prof.. Prasad’s paper Educational Technology for Human Dignity and Peace was published in Journal of Indian Education, Vol. XIV, No. 4, November, 1988.
In1988, Prof. Prasad wrote his Editorial on Gandhi, Nonviolence and Peace for Peace Education: An International Journal, Vol. XII, December, 1988.
In 1989 - John Paul Eddy, Ph. D., Professor of Education, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203 USA wrote the Foreword for the book Mental Health of Teachers written by Prof. Prasad. Among many things, he wrote: “It is appropriate that Prasad a counselor, a professor-teacher, a scholar-researcher, and a leader in peace education write this excellent book to help all humanity.”
In 1990 - Prof. Prasad attended on invitation the World Congress on Human Rights
at New Delhi sponsored by Jawaharlal Nehru University and United Nations Commission on Human Rights at Geneva from December10-15, 1990.
The book: Mental Health of Teachers written by Prof. Prasad was published by Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi in 1990.
In 1991 - Prof. Prasad delivered keynote speech on the theme: Relevance of Peace Education at the Fourth National Convention of IAEWP at Trivandrum, Kerala India on 8th February,1991, and his Speech was included in the book Relevance of Peace Education edited by Dr. K. S. Pillai and published by The Associated Publishers, Ambala Cant, India.
His paper: Education as Means of Altruism for Enduring World Peace in a Nuclear Age was published in the Souvenir of IAEWP National Convention at Trivandrum, India, February, 1991.
Prof. Prasad attended World Conference of Religions on the theme: Religion and Human Solidarity at Cochin, Kerala, India from October 1-6, 1991.
Prof. Prasad’s paper: Education, Altruism and Peace was published in The Primary Teacher Journal, Vol. XVI, No. 4, October, 1991.
In 1992 - Prof. Prasad wrote Editorial on the theme: Teaching Human Rights for Peace Progress Journal, Vol. V, No.1 & 2, 1991-92.
Prof. Prasad’s paper: Peace Education and International Community was published in University News, Vol. XXX, No.2, January 13, 1992.
Prof. Prasad participated in Hindu-Christian Dialogue at Varanasi from February 9-12, 1992.
Prof. Prasad delivered presidential address at the IAEWP National Convention on the theme: Global Peace and Development at Surat, India on 24th July, 1992.
Prof. Prasad gave Presidential Address on the topic: Teaching Human Rights for Global Peace at the IAEWP 6th World Congress held at Malta from 23-28 November, 1992.
In 1993 - Prof. Prasad wrote on the theme: Human Rights for Peace which was published in Lokmat Times, 21March, 1993.
Chief Guest Speech on the topic: Total Literacy for World Peace was given by Prof. Prasad at the West India Zonal Conference of IAEWP at Bardoli, India on 10th December, 1993. His speech was published in International Educator, Vol. 8, No. 2 & 3, 1993.
In 994 - Prof. Prasad gave Presidential Address on the theme: Twenty-first Century School for Nonviolence at the 7th World Congress of IAEWP, Petersburg, Russia on 22 May1994. This was published in International Educator, Vol. 9, No. 1 & 2, and also in Journal of Indian Education, Vol. XX, No. 3, September, 1994.
Prof. Prasad delivered Guest Speech on the topic: Education for Human Rights at the IAEWP Convention on 10 December, 1994 at the Kevadiya Colony, Gujarat, India.
In 1995 - Prof. Prasad delivered Keynote Speech on the theme: Education for Peace at District Institute of Education and Training, Bhopal, India on 10th May, 1995, and his Speech was published in University News, Vol. XXXIII 19 June, 1995.
Education for Tolerance for Peace was the theme of Prof. Prasad’s Keynote Speech delivered at the 14th Kerala State Convention of IAEWP at Kannur, Kerala, India on 17th September, 1995, and his Speech was published in International Educator (Peace Education Special), Vol. X, No. 3, 1995.
In 1996 - Prof. Prasad wrote paper on the topic: My Favourite Reading: Books on Peace Education on the request of the Editor of the Journal, which was published in University News, Vol. XXXIV, 12 February, 1996.
Prof. Prasad gave his Presidential Address on the theme: Education for Eradication of Poverty for Peace at the Eighth Indian National Convention of IAEWP at the Government College of Education, Ujjain, M. P., India on 22 June, 1996, and his Address was published in International Educator, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1996.
Prof. Prasad was invited by Dr. Young Seek Choue, Founder & Chancellor of Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea for participation in the 1996 International Peace Conference held from 17-19, September, 1996, where he spoke on the theme: Education for Justice and Peace: The Role of the UN International Year of Peace and its Future Tasks.
Presidential Address was given by Prof. Prasad on the theme: Peace Education Program and Studies for Perpetually Just, Nonviolent and Peaceful Society at the Eighth World Congress of IAEWP held in collaboration with Croatian Red Cross at Split, Croatia from 26 November – 1 December 1996.
In 1997 - Prof. Prasad’s paper on the topic: Teaching Human Rights for Global Peace was published in UN News (Republic of Korea), 15-30 June, 1997.
Presidential Address was given by Prof. Prasad on the theme: Education for Environment and Peace at the International Eurasian Congress on 4th August, 1997at the Karadeniz Technical University, Giresun, Republic of Turkey (held from 2-9 August, 1997).
The Paper: Development of Peace Education in India written by Prof. Prasad was published in International Educator, Vol. XII, No. 2, December, 1997.
Prof. Prasad delivered Guest of Honour Speech on the theme: Ecological Literacy for All for Peace at the 6th World Environment Congress at India International Centre, New Delhi organized by Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment, New Delhi from 21-23 December, 1997.
In 1998 - Upon the request of Nobel Peace Laureate Oscar Arias through his letter dated 8th December, 1997, Prof. Surya Nath Prasad endorsed his campaign, and is supporter and participant since 2nd February, 1998 in the Campaign to promote an International Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers initiated by 17 Nobel Peace Laureates under the leadership of Nobel Peace Laureate Oscar Arias.
Upon the unanimous recommendation of the members of Organizing Committee and the request of Dr. Young Seek Choue, Initiator of the Global Initiative for Supporting the Second Renaissance Movement through Global Campaign for Restoring Morality and Humanity, Prof. Surya Nath Prasad acknowledged his commitment as a co-initiator for the movement and the campaign since 1998. This was proposed by Nobel Laureate Dr. Herbert C. Brown and initiated by Prof. Young Seek Choue , Founder and Chancellor of Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea.
Guest of Honour Speech was given by Prof. Prasad on the Theme: Education for Mental Health and Peace at the 2nd World Congress on Alternative Medicines and Peace at the Himalyan Healing Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal on 26th February, 1998.
Prof. Prasad’s Speech: Education for Environment and Peace was published under the scheme of Peace Education Mini-prints, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden, No. 92, April, 1998, and it is in Circulation through ERIC (Education Research Information Center), Washington, DC. USA.
Prof. Prasad gave a Guest of Honour Speech on the theme: University as a Sanctuary for International Awakening and Peace at the opening ceremony of The Global Open University for Peace at Bagni di Lucca, Italy on 5th June, 1998.
Prof. Prasad was invited by Prof. Young Seek Choue, Founder and Chancellor of Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea to deliver Special Speech at the 1998 International Peace Conference, where he gave his Special Speech on the theme: Global Man as the Vision for the Next Millennium on 26th September, 1998.
In 1999 - A Special Speech on the theme: Education, Religion and Peace was delivered by Prof. Prasad on 20 February, 1999 at the 5th World Congress of Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation (Milan, Italy) held at Kathmandu, Nepal.
A Speech on the theme: Education, Man, Democracy and Peace was given by Prof. Prasad at the World Congress of Global Open University, Padova, Italy on 3rd May, 1999.
A Speech on the topic: IAEWP and the Role of Education for Peace was given by Prof. Prasad at the First Italian Convention of IAEWP at Milan, Italy on 4rth May, 1999.
A Speech on the theme: Religion and Science for Peace was given by Prof. Prasad at the Spiritual Forum, Madrid, Spain on 6th May, 1999.
A Speech on the topic: Mental Hygiene and Peace was given by Prof. Prasad at the World Congress of Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation, Madrid, Spain on 7th May, 1999.
A Speech on the theme: Importance of Peace Education was delivered by Dr. Prasad at the World Peace Congress at Madrid, Spain on 8th May, 1999.
A Speech on theme: Peace: The Role and Mission of the University for the New Millennium, and on the topic: Peace Education were given by Prof. Prasad at the 1999 Seoul International Conference of University Presidents on 13th October, 1999 at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
A Speech on the theme: Building Democracy and One World: The Role of NGOs in the 21st Century was given by Prof. Prasad at the 1999 Seoul International Conference of NGOs held from 10-16 October, 1999 at Seoul, Republic of Korea.
In 2000 - A Keynote Speech on the theme: Education, Healing and Peace was delivered by Prof. Prasad on 11 February, 2000 at the Lama Gangchen Peace Foundation at the Himalyan Healing Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Prof. Prasad’s Speech: Peace: The Role and Mission of the University for the New Millennium was published in University Today, Vol. XX, No. 8, April, 2000.
Peace Education in the New Millennium written by Prof. Prasad was published in the Journal Education in Asia, Vol. XX, No. 3, April-May-June, 2000.
A Speech on the theme: Global Governance for Security and Peace of All: The Role of Peace Education was given by Prof. Prasad at the International Peace Conference, Seoul, Republic of Korea on 18th September, 2000.
A Presidential Speech on the theme: The Role of Educators in Promoting Peace was given by Prof. Prasad at the Global Assembly of Educators for World Peace at New Delhi, India on 23rd December, 2000.
In 2001 - A Chief Guest Speech on the theme: The Concept of Man and Integral Education was given by Prof. Prasad at the National Workshop on Education for Universal Consciousness at Trivandrum, Kerala, India on 4rth February, 2001.
Prof. Prasad was invited by Prof. Young Seek Choue , Founder and Chancellor of Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea to deliver Special Speech at the Wrap-up Plenary Session of the International Peace Conference on 27th September, 2001, where Prof. Prasad spoke on the theme: Toward a Global Common Society for Peace through Dialogue among Civilizations.
In 2002 - A Chief Guest Speech was given by Prof. Prasad on the theme: Restructuring Education based on Spiritualism at the National Seminar, Trivandrum, Kerala, India on 9th March, 2002.
2003 - A book entitled: Science, Religion and Peace was edited by Prof. Prasad with Dr. Suman Shukla , which was published by IAEWP from Nagpur, India in 2003. Prof. Johan Galtung, pioneer peace research and father of Peace Studies wrote the FOREWORD for this book of Prof. Prasad.
Prof. Prasad was invited by Founder and Chancellor Prof. Young Seek Choue of Kung Hee University, Seoul Republic of Korea to give his speech on the theme: Education for Democracy to build a Global Common Society for Peace at the International Academic Peace Conference held in Manila, the Philippines, September19-20, 2003.
In 2004 - Prof. Prasad was invited by the Rector, The Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea on recommendation of Prof. Young Seek Choue, Founder and Chancellor of the University to teach as a Visiting Professor at The Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea for the Spring Semester, 2004. Dr. Prasad was assigned to teach the course on History of Peace Ideas. This course reviews great thinkers’ peace ideas.
In 2005 - Prof. Prasad wrote the Editorial on the theme: Justice, Law, Judiciary, Education and Peace for Peace Education: An International Journal, Vol. 13, 2005.
In 2006 - Prof. Prasad wrote his Editorial on the theme: Utopia/Oughtopia, Education and Peace for Vol. 14, 2006 issue of Peace Education: An International Journal.
In 2007 - Prof. Prasad’s paper on the theme: Misconception and Right Concept of Peace Education was published in Peace Education: An International Journal, Vol. 15, 2007.
In 2008 - Prof. Prasad gave his Speech as Chief Guest on the theme: Importance of Peace Education at the Seminar on Performance of Indian Cultural Heritage and World Peace at Mumbai, India on 5th July, 2008.
Prof. Prasad was invited to deliver Guest Speech on the theme: Peace Education: Medicine and Tonic for Nonviolence on 30 October, 2008 at the 18th IAEWP World Peace Congress held in Malaysia (from October 29-31 2008), and his speech was published in Peace and Conflict Monitor – a Journal of UN mandated University for Peace, on 2 December, 2008.
Access to Peace Education written by Prof. Prasad on invitation was included in Online Encyclopedia of Peace Education edited Monisha Bajaj and published by Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA in 2008.
In 2009 - Prof. Prasad wrote Editorial on the theme: Financing Higher Education to Build Non-exploitative Society for the Special Issue of Peace Education: An International Journal, Vol. 16, 2009.
In 2010 - Prof. Prasad was invited by Kwang-Hyun Kim, Editor-in-Chief of Sang Saeng (Living Together-Helping Each Other) a Magazine of Asia Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) under the auspices of UNESCO, Seoul, Republic of Korea to write on the theme: Peace and Nonviolence for its Focus Column on the eve of UN International Decade of Culture of Peace and Nonviolence (2001-2010). Editor Kim requested Prof. Prasad to write non-academic article on the assigned theme. Prof. Prasad’s article was published in No. 27, Spring, 2010 issue of the Sang Saeng Magazine (Search Website: No. 27, APCEIU).
Prof. Prasad was invited as a Guest Speaker for participation in the World Forum of Spiritual Culture at Astana, Kazakhstan, where he delivered his Speech on the theme: Peace Education as Solution of Terrorism and other Forms of Violence on October 19, 2010 (held from Oober18-20, 2010).
Prof. Prasad was requested by Editor Prof. Nandkishore Acharya to write on the topic: Peace Education: Concept and Meaning (Shanti Shiksha: Awadharna Evam Aarth) for World Encyclopedia of Nonviolence (Ahimsa-Vishwa Kosh), which was included in it and published by Prakrit Bharati Academy, Jaipur & Bhavarlal-Kantabai Jain Multipurpose Foundation, Jalgaon, India in 2010.
2010-2011 issue of Peace Education: An International Journal was released on the theme: Global Governance for Peace and Security: The Role of Peace Education. Prologue for this issue was written by Prof. Prasad and Editorial on the topic: The UN, Peace and Peace Education was written by Prof. Johan Galtung.
In 2011 - Prof. Prasad delivered his guest speech on the theme of the International Seminar: Future Education and World Peace at Bhagalpur, India on 6th November, 2011organized by Bhartiya Shiksha Shodh Sansthan (Indian Education Research Institute) in collaboration with Bhgalpur Univrsity, India.
In 2012 - Prof. Prasad’s paper: Manifestation of Inherent Elements in Man for Creation of Values for Sustainable Peace was published in Peace and Conflict Monitor- a Journal of UN Mandated University for Peace- on 17 January, 2012.
Prof. Prasad’s paper: Global Man (Human) as the Vision for the Third Millennium: The Role of Peace Education was published in Peace and Conflict Monitor – a Journal of UN mandated University for Peace - on February 14, 2012.
Prof. Prasad gave a speech on the theme: World Peace and Conflict Resolution at the International Rotary Club, Nagpur West on 21 February, 2012.
Brief of Prof. Prasad’s s Speech on the theme: Global Governance for Security and Peace of All: The Role of Peace Education was published in Peace and Conflict Monitor – a Journal of UN mandated University for Peace - on June 1, 2012.
In 2013 - Prof. Prasad’s interview on the topic: Importance of Peace Education in Man’s Life was taken for half an hour by a T.V. Anchor, which was relayed on 8 January, 2013 at 4.30 p.m. on UCN News Channel.
2012-13 issue of Peace Education: An International Journal will be on the theme: Dialogue among Civilizations for Peace, which is due to be released in December 2013. Again Prof. Prasad will write the Prologue and Prof. Galtung will write the Editorial for this issue of the journal.
2013-14 issue of Peace Education: An International has been planned to be published on the theme: The Role of different Religions in Peace Education, and the Editorial for this issue will be written by Prof. Prasad
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RESUME OF PROF. SURYA NATH PRASAD
Prof. Surya Nath Prasad was born in 1942 in India. He is
M. A. in Sociology, M. Ed., M. Phil in Non-Violence and Peace Studies and Ph.D.
in Education. Prof. Prasad has received Honorary Doctorate in Peace Education
from USA and in Education from Nigeria, D.Sc. from Sri Lanka, and D.Litt. in
Peace Education from Netherlands at the hands of His Excellency Dr. Shankar
Dayal Sharma, Former President of Government of India.
Prof. Prasad has taught as
Assistant and Associate Professor in the Colleges of Education of Gorakhpur, Nagpur
and Osmania (Hyderabad) Universities in India for the last 30 years. He is a
Former Visiting Professor of Peace Studies in Kyung Hee University, Republic of
Korea. He was Adjunct Professor for Romano-Byzantine Institute, Brainerd,
Minnesota, USA, and is a Member of Academic Council of Universite Libre des
Sciences de L’ Home De Paris, France. He is a Ph.D. Guide in the Faculty of
Education, Nagpur University, Nagpur, India, and Mentor in Peace Education at
The World University, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Prof. Prasad is Honorary Executive
President of The Global Open University for World Peace, Italy.
Prof. Prasad is former President and currently Executive Vice President of International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP). The IAEWP is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) affiliated to UN-ECOSOC, UNDPI, UNICEF, UNCED & UNESCO. Prof. Prasad is a Representative to the UN and UNESCO for IAEWP, and a Consultant to the UNESCO Chair in Education for the Mauritius State Institute of Education, Mauritius.
Prof. Prasad founded Peace Education: An International Journal in 1975 and got its registration in 1977
and he distributes its every issue free of cost throughout the world. He
published its inaugural issue on the theme Role of Women in Peace Education on
the eve of 1975 UN International Year of Women. He is its Editor-in-Chief. He
was Chief Editor of IAEWP Journal Peace
Progress. He is Associate Editor of Diplomacy
Journal (Republic of Korea). Prof. Prasad is a Member of Editorial Board of
Peace and Conflict Review, a Journal
of UN mandated University for Peace, Costa Rica (Central America). Prof. Prasad
is a Fellow of United Writers Association of India. He is a Biographee of
International Who’s Who of Intellectuals, Cambridge, England.
His 10 books, more than 100 papers
and 4 Radio Talks on the different themes of peace education have already been
published, released and broadcasted. Lund University of Sweden has published
his 3 Presidential Speeches on the topics of peace education given at different
national and international conferences. Prof.
Prasad edited the five books in the Series of Peace Education, viz. Disarmament Education and Peace; Gandhi, Non-Violence and Peace; Democracy, Education and Peace; Women, Education and Peace
(1995); and Science, Religion and Peace (2003). Professor Johan Galtung
(pioneer of peace research) has written the Foreword for the book Science, Religion and Peace.
Prof. Prasad participated in 70 national, continental and international conferences. He visited Republic of Korea (6 times), Republic of Croatia, Republic of Turkey, Italy (two times), Spain and Nepal (three times), Philippines, Malaysia and Kazakhstan as a Guest Speaker to deliver his Presidential, Keynote, and Special Speeches at the International Peace Conferences, and the Organizing Committees of the conferences of these countries took the responsibility of expenses on his travel and accommodation. Prof. Prasad was Organizing Chairman of Second World Congress of IAEWP held in India in 1978-79, and International Co-ordinator of Sixth World Congress of IAEWP held in Malta in 1992.
Prof. Prasad is a Co-initiator of the Global Initiative for Supporting the Second Renaissance Movement through the Global Campaign for Restoring Morality and Humanity proposed by Nobel Laureate Dr. Herbert C. Brown and initiated by Prof. Young Seek Choue, Ph. D., Founder & Chancellor of Kyung Hee University System, Republic of Korea.
Prof. Prasad is a supporter and participant in the Campaign to promote an International Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers initiated by 17 Nobel Peace Laureates under the leadership of Nobel Peace Laureate Oscar Arias former President of Costa Rica.
Prof. Prasad is a recipient of
several peace awards for his service to the cause of peace and peace education.
Prof. Prasad’s wife Dr. Suman Shukla isa Associate Professor, College of Education, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, India. She assists Prof.. Prasad in editing Peace Education: An International Journal as its Associate Editor (Hon.).
Prof. Prasad and his wife Dr. Suman have two children-Dr. Maneeshi Prasad (son) and Dr. Vidushi Prasad (daughter).
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ABOUT THE EDITORS OF
PEACE EDUCATION: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Prof. Surya Nath
Prasad was born in 1942 in India. He
is M. A. in Sociology, M. Ed., M. Phil in Non-Violence and Peace Studies and
Ph.D. in Education. Prof. Prasad has received Honorary Doctorate in Peace
Education from USA and in Education from Nigeria, D.Sc. from Sri Lanka, and
D.Litt. in Peace Education from Netherlands at the hands of His Excellency Dr.
Shankar Dayal Sharma, Former President of Government of India.
Prof. Prasad has taught as Assistant
and Associate Professor in the Colleges of Education of Gorakhpur, Nagpur and
Osmania (Hyderabad) Universities in India for the last 30 years. He is a Former
Visiting Professor of Peace Studies in Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea.
He was Adjunct Professor for Romano-Byzantine Institute, Brainerd, Minnesota,
USA, and is a Member of Academic Council of Universite Libre des Sciences de L’
Home De Paris, France. He is a Ph.D. Guide in the Faculty of Education, Nagpur
University, Nagpur, India, and Mentor in Peace Education at The World
University, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Prof. Prasad is Honorary Executive President
of The Global Open University for World Peace, Italy.
Prof. Prasad is former President and
currently Executive Vice President of International Association of Educators
for World Peace (IAEWP). The IAEWP is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
affiliated to UN-ECOSOC, UNDPI, UNICEF, UNCED & UNESCO. Prof. Prasad is a
Representative to the UN and UNESCO for IAEWP, and a Consultant to the UNESCO
Chair in Education for the Mauritius State Institute of Education, Mauritius.
Prof. Prasad
founded Peace Education: An International Journal in 1975 and got
its registration in 1977 and he distributes its every issue free of cost
throughout the world. He published its inaugural issue on the theme Role of
Women in Peace Education on the eve of 1975 UN International Year of Women. He
is its Editor-in-Chief. He was Chief Editor of IAEWP Journal Peace Progress. He is Associate Editor
of Diplomacy Journal (Republic of
Korea). Prof. Prasad is a Member of Editorial Board of Peace and Conflict Review, a Journal of UN mandated University for
Peace, Costa Rica. Prof. Prasad is a Fellow of United Writers Association of
India. He is a Biographee of International Who’s Who of Intellectuals, Cambridge,
England.
His 10 books, 100 papers and 4 Radio
Talks on the different themes of peace education have already been published,
released and broadcasted. Lund University of Sweden has published his 3
Presidential Speeches on the topics of peace education given at different
national and international conferences. Prof.
Prasad edited the five books in the Series of Peace Education, viz. Disarmament Education and Peace; Gandhi, Non-Violence and Peace; Democracy, Education and Peace; Women, Education and Peace
(1995); and Science, Religion and Peace (2003). Professor Johan Galtung
has written the Foreword for the book Science,
Religion and Peace.
Prof. Prasad participated in 65
national, continental and international conferences. He visited Republic of Korea
(6 times), Republic of Croatia, Republic of Turkey, Italy (Two times), Spain
and Nepal (three times), Philippines, and Malaysia to deliver his Presidential,
Keynote, Guest and Special Speeches at the International Peace Conferences.
Prof. Prasad was Organizing Chairman of Second World Congress of IAEWP held in
India in 1978-79, and International Co-ordinator of Sixth World Congress of
IAEWP held in Malta in 1992.
Prof. Prasad is a Co-initiator of the Global Initiative for Supporting the Second Renaissance Movement through the Global Campaign for Restoring Morality and Humanity proposed by Nobel Laureate Dr. Herbert C. Brown and initiated by Prof. Young Seek Choue,
Ph. D., Founder & Chancellor of Kyung Hee University System, Republic of Korea.
Prof. Prasad is a supporter and participant in the Campaign to promote an International Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers initiated by 17 Nobel Peace Laureates under the leadership of Nobel Peace Laureate Oscar Arias former President of Costa Rica.
Prof. Prasad is a
recipient of several peace awards for his service to the cause of peace and
peace education.
Dr. Suman Shukla is B. Sc., M. Sc. (Maths.), B. Ed., M. Ed. and Ph. D. (Education) from Banaras Hindu University, and M.Sc. in Communication Subject Education, Y. C. M. Open University of India.
Dr. Shukla has been teaching as Assistant and Associate Professor for the last more than 25 years in the R.T.M. Nagpur University’s Bar.
S. K. Wankhede College of Education, NAGPUR-440010,Maharashtra,India.
Dr. Shukla has written several papers on the themes of peace education and on the problems of methodology of teaching peace and on other educational themes. Her papers have been published in national and international Journals. She is Co-Editor (with Dr. Surya Nath Prasad) of five books on the different topics of Peace Education as mentioned above in para five She is Honorary Associate Editor of Peace Education: An International Journal.
Dr. Shukla has participated at the several national and international conferences. In 2001, she attended International Peace Conference on invitation held at the Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, and she presented her paper on the theme: Dialogue for Authentic Education and Peace. She was invited at the 2003 Manila International Peace Conference in Philippines where she presented her paper: Education for Human-centrism through Neo-Renaissance for Peace. In 2008, she was invited as a Guest Speaker at the 18th IAEWP World Peace Congress held at Sun-Way Pyramid Convention Centre in Malaysia where she delivered her speech on the theme Mathetics for Peace: A Challenge to Peace Education on 30 October, 2008. And the text of her speech with the title: Mathetics and the Relationship between Peace and Learning was published in UN mandated University for Peace’s Journal Peace and Conflict Monitor under its Speech Column, dated 01 May, 2009.
During the period of 2010 and 2011, Dr. Shukla was more active in academic activities. She put her ideas on the theme: Importance of Education in Character Formation at the National Seminar Conference on Prospects of Higher Education at Nagpur, India on 30 September 2010. She spoke on the theme: Positive Psychology and Mental Health at the UGC sponsored National Seminar at Nagpur on 30 August 2011. She delivered her speech on the theme: World Peace and Maitribhavana (Fellow-Feeling) at the International Conference of IAEWP at Bhopal, India on 8 October 2011. Dr. Shukla participated in Regional Workshop on Emerging Scenario of Research in Teacher Education at PGTD of Education, RTM Nagpur University on 11 October 2011. Her paper on the theme – Oughtopia: Dr. Choue’s Model of World Peace was published in Indian Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, Vol. 2, Issue 2, July-December 2011.
Dr. Shukla is recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru
Memorial Fund Award and Dadasaheb Gaikwad Award.
Prof. Prasad and his wife Dr. Suman have two children-Maneeshi (son) and Vidushi (daughter).
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CALL FOR PAPERS
DATE EXTENDED UP TO 31 DECEMBER, 2010 FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS AND OTHER RELEVANT MATTERS
FOR
PEACE EDUCATION: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
(Founded in 1977)
Vol. XVII, 2009-2010
Founder & Editor-in Chief
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D.
Former Visiting Professor
The Graduate Institute of Peace Studies
Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea
Associate Editor
Suman Shukla, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
RTM Nagpur University College of Education
Nagpur, Maharashtra, INDIA
We invite the prospective authors who are engaged in the field of peace education, peace studies and peace researches to send their articles, papers, views on the Special issue (on the theme Global Governance and Peace Education) of our Journal Peace Education on or before 30 December, 2010 through e-mail at: peaceeducationsnp@yahoo.com or by post to: The Editor, Peace Education: An International Journal, 216, Laxminagar, NAGPUR-440 022, Maharashtra, India.
Sub-themes of the issue of the Journal are: 1.Need of Global Governance and Peace, 2. Global Governance by Cross-national Organization and Peace, 3. Global Governance by Supra-national Organization and Peace, 4. Global Governance by Transnational Organization and Peace, 5. Peace through United Nations, 6. NGOs as Partners in Global Governance and Peace, 7. Role of Peace Education in Global Governance. However, authors are free to choose their own topics for their papers.
Reviews of the books may also be sent. News, reports, activities, events, proposals, conferences, publications or on any other items related to peace are also welcome.
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PEACE EDUCATION JOURNAL
Peace education: An International Journal was founded in 1975 by Surya Nath Prasad and it got its registration in 1977 with the Registrar of Newspapers, government of India. Its Registration Number is RN 29220/77 and ISSN is 1991-5721. The Inaugural issue of the Journal was on theme of Role of Women in Peace Education dedicated to 1975 UN International Year of Women. Every issue of the Journal is on the special theme of Peace Education. The titles of a few past issues of Peace Education Journal are Disarmament, Education and Peace; Democracy, Education and Peace; Gandhi, Nonviolence, and Peace; Science, Religion and Peace; Justice, Law, Judiciary, Education and Peace; Utopia,/Oughtopia, Education and Peace; Foundations of Peace Education, Financing for Free Education to All to Build Non-Exploitative Society for Peace.
Peace Education Journal is in the service of alerting public opinion and mobilizing the conscience of mankind to the cause of justice, peace, tolerance, disarmament, protection of environment and human rights, and in the light of Gandhian nonviolence and trusteeship, considering man everywhere as composed of body, vitality, mind , intellect and spirit integrally and their manifestation through perpetual integral education free of charge to all to be just to create peace, and also in the spirit of UNESCO’s Constitution and the Charter of the United Nations since its inception in 1977 by providing international platform for dialogue being distributed free of cost throughout the world by its founder, editor and publisher Surya Nath Prasad.
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SCIENCE, RELIGION AND PEACE
Science, Religion and Peace is edited by Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D., Former Visiting Professor of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea, and Suman Shukla, Ph. D., Associate Professor of RTM Nagpur University’s Bar. S. K. Wankhede College of Education, Nagpur. The Foreword of this book has been written by Johan Galtung, Ph. D., Professor of Peace Studies, Director, Transcend: A Peace and Development Network, and Rector, Transcend University. This book is published by Surya Nath Prasad for International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP) at 216, Laxminagar, Nagpur-440 022, Maharshtra, India.Cell phone:91- 9823134698, e-mail: peaceeducationsnp@yahoo.com
The book Science, Religion and Peace is one of the Series in Peace Education. This book tells about the demerits and misuse of science and religion if they work separately. Science in absence of religion makes man slave of his own passions, desires, and animal nature. And religion in absence of Science makes man vulgar, mythical, dogmatic, orthodox, and superstitious. Hence mere science creates doubts, fear terror in man which disturb peace.. And only religion also leads man to regress even to acquire lower level of prosperity. This book deals also with the importance of science and religion integrally in building and sustaining peace in individuals, nations and the world. Science trains man to deal with physical life successfully. And religion enables man to realize his spiritual self. Science and religion both are complementary to each other. Hence science and religion both are essential for the development of integral or global men and women to attain prosperity and peace for all.
The
titles of the contents of the book are: Foreword: Johan Galtung,
Preface: Surya Nath Prasad & Suman Shukla, Editorial: Peace through
Science and Religion: Suryanath Prasad & Suman Shukla, Science,
Philosophy and Religion: L. R. Shukla, Space Philisophy and Academic
Revolution: Charles Mercieca, Techno-Nemesis: The Expropriation of
Education: John M. Raftery, Teaching Cultural Values: A Strategy for
Peace: John W. Friesen, The Future of Religion: August Bebel, What is
the Christian Position on War?: John P. Eddy, A. Cosmology
of Hope: Irving F. Laucks, Lasting Peace: R. R. Diwakar, Universal
Impact of Indian Religion: Swami Sanatan Brhmachari, The Next Future in
Planetary Evolution: Your Role in a Changing World: Howard John Zitko,
Against the Abuse of Science: Scientists' Voice and Appeal, World
Religious Conference at Moscow: V. Lysenkov& I. Troyanovsky, Peace
Education: A Deliberative Meet: Suman Shukla, Name Index and Subject
Index.
The book includes the ideas of great authors of the world around including the appeals of scientists and religious workers about the necessity of integrated science and religion for creating and promoting peace on the planet earth.
This book is useful for scholars, researchers and
teachers of peace studies and peace education, peace activists; scientists,
religious workers and political leaders. It will suit to all libraries personal
as well as institutional.
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(PEACE EDUCATION : THEORY AND PRAXIS)
ISBN: 978-81-909478-0-0
2010
By
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D.
The Graduate Institute of Peace Studies
Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea
Publisher
Peace Education (Publications)
e-mail: peaceeducationsnp@yahoo.com
The book Shanti Shiksha: Siddhant Evam Vyavahar (Peace
Education: Theory and Praxis) is in Hindi, and its English version will
soon be released.
Today peace education has become the subject of UN Policy, research and training by UNESCO, the Council of Europe and ministries of education, various universities throughout the world and a worldwide transnationally conceived and conducted NGO Global Campaign for Peace Education.
The author accepted the need and importance of peace education not only for eradicaion of violence, war, terrorism, injustice, poverty, exploitation and diseases, but also for to be man along with to be persons of different relations, sects, languages, nations, castes, races and professions. However, bravely and thoroughly reviewing, he has denied the current concept, contents and teaching methods of peace education, and has presented its right concept, contents and methods.
The book is unique, and it provides right direction and outlook to peace education.
The present book is the creation of the author’s experience of three decades in the field of peace education.
Chapters in the book are : Chapter 1. Relevance of Peace Education : (a) Problems of Present Education, (b) Need and Importance of Peace Education, (c) Meaning and Aims of Peace Education; Chapter 2. Development of Peace Education : (a) Origin of Peace Education, (b) Initiators of Peace Education and their Contributions, (c) History of Peace Education, (d) Development of Peace Education in India; Chapter 3. Peace Education : Place, Institutions and Net (Websites) – (a) Place of Peace Education in Educational Institutions, (b) Peace Education Net (Websites); Chapter 4. Contents and Methods of Peace Education : (a) Contents of Peace Education, (b) Methods of Peace Education; and Chapter 5. Conclusions, Discussión and Suggestions : (a) Conclusions and Discussions, (b) Suggestions.
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HINDUISM AND PEACE EDUCATION
(ISBN: 978-81-909478-1-7)
2010
By
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D.
The Graduate Institute of Peace Studies
Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea
Publisher
Peace Education (Publications)
Hinduism,
based on Vedanta (Upanishads), is a religion of perpetual
verifiable truth. It is a religion of
universe and God in man (including in woman). It
is a religion that claims the manifestation of perfection already exists
in
man and woman. Hinduism is very much peace education. Because Hinduism
advocates self-education
for perpetual discovery, it enables every individual man or woman
without any discrimination
to manifest / to unfold / to evolve the perfection already in him or
her to be
man incarnation of God, who would naturally be a peaceful creature
living
together peacefully on this planet earth. Thus peace education in
Hiduism is perpetual education of the self, by the self and for the self
resulting in sustainable peace within and outside.
The author of the book has tried to deal with the whole concept of Hinduism and Peace Education under the following captions: 1. What is Hinduism?,2. Impact of Hinduism on other Religions and persons of other Sects, 3. Thinkers and Practitioners of of Similar Theories and Praxis of Hinduism, 4. Hinduism in View World Thinkers, 5. Peace Education: Why?, 6. Concept of Peace in Hinduism, 7. Peace Education in Hinduism: (a) Concept of Peace Education, (b) Meaning of Peace Education, 8. No Fear of Peace Education of Hinduism for Nation-States, 9. Need of Awakening among Peoples towards Peace Education of Hinduism, Notes and References.
This book is unique in the field of peace education. This is core of all educations. The ideas contained in the book will certainly provoke the thinkers and learners of existing peace education to think freely and impartially to dialogue, to amend, to adopt, to follow and to practice it, and help others to know and practice it.
This
volume is valuable for every man and woman without any discrimination
to be self awakened to be man (human) for justice, peace and
nonviolence.
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FORUM FOR DIALOGUE
HINDUISM AND PEACE EDUCATION
By
Surya Nath Prasad
COMMENTS OF EDITORS EDWARD J. B., JING LIN AND JOHN P. MILLER, AND RESPONSES OF AUTHOR SURYA NATH PRASAD
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad, Founder and Editor of Peace Education: An International Journal, was requested by Prof. Jing Lin OF College of Education, University of Maryland, USA through her e-mail letter dated 29 December, 2007 on recommendation of Dr. Monisha Bajaj of Teachers College Columbia University, to write a Chapter on the theme Hinduism and Peace Education for the proposed book Spirituality, Religion and Peace education to be edited by her and Prof. John P. Miller Scheduled to be published by Information Age Publishing, USA. Later, the name of Dr. Edward J. Brantmeier of School of Education, Colorado State University was added as co-editor of the book.
The Chapter was of 19 pages in the first submission on August 15, 2008 as required limit of length of the Chapter. In second submission, it was of 28 pages due to Editor Edward ‘s requirements for the first revision of the Chapter meeting his demands to supply more information about the thinkers and their ideas cited in the Chapter as quotations by putting his 84 comments. In the third submission, the Chapter was of 40 pages because Editor Edward put 53 comments wishing from the author to have more elaboration of some ideas with more descriptions and examples in second revision of the Chapter. And at the end, the Editors of the proposed book jointly reduced with their three comments and dictated their terms to the author to amend the Chapter in third revision, if the author wishes his Chapter to be included in their proposed edited book. Finally, the author of the Chapter Hinduism and Peace Education withdrew his Chapter from the scheme of the proposed book Spirituality, Religion and Peace Education to be edited by Prof. Jing Lin, Prof. John P. Miller and Dr. Edward J. Brantmeier and to be published by Information Age Publishing with submission of his point-wise responses for their comments- cum- suggestions.
The following excerpts are the results of dialogue between editors Edward J. Brantmeier, Jing Lin and John P. Miller of the book: Spirituality, Religion and Peace Education, and author Surya Nath Prasad of the Chapter : Hinduism and Peace Education.
Ideas of the editors of the book in the form of their comments and suggestions, and the author of the Chapter in the form of his responses will certainly incite, provoke and motivate the highly enlightened readers, teachers, scholars and thinkers in peace education to express and put their ideas for and against, and also their own independent views on the relevant points for further discussion. Views of the participants expressed with their sound reasoning in this open dialogue will be published in toto in the forthcoming issues of our Journal Peace Education.
COMMENTS AND RESPONSES IN FIRST REVISION
Editor Edward Brantmeier’s Comments (dated 14 March, 2009) and author Surya Nath Prasad’s Responses (23 May, 2009 and 04 June, 2009) for the first revision of the Chapter are:
Edward J. B. Comments
4. HUMAN? PLEASE REWORK THIS SENTENCE FOR CLARITY...
7.
Because we are not fully human? Please clarify. Also, this sentence is not a complete
sentence,
but a figment...
8. Our humanity? Please consider the audience-a
globally audience will read this book... some might
be put off by the use of “man”
rather than human
10. The condition that he set forth.... Please reword here...
11.
Because we are not fully human, ---, please reword this sentence to include the themes in the
quote.
14.
Human? Again, to some Western readers, especially feminists like myself, this
will be an off-
putting word choice rather than an
inclusive and inviting word choice...
15.
THIS IS A STRONG UNIVERSAL CLAIM GIVEN THAT THERE ARE MANY OTHER
RELIGIONS REPRESENTED IN THIS BOOK
ON SPIRITUALITY, RELIGION AND PEACE
EDUCATION. CLAIMING THAT IT IS THE
“BEST” EXCLUDES RATHER THAN CONNECTS.
PLEASE RETHINK HOW YOU WANT THE OPENING SENTENCE
TO COME OFF, GIVEN NOW
IT IS EXCLUSIONARY RATHER THAN
INVITING THE READER, MANY OF WHICH WILL BE
NON-HINDUS,INTO A DIALOGUE ABOUT
THE STRENGTH OF THE HINDU WAY OF LIFE
FOR CREATING PEACE-BOTH INNER AND
SOCIATAL.
59.
AGAIN I RECOMMEND THAT YOU USE FULLY HUMAN AS TO NOT BE OFFENSIVE OR
EXCLUSIONARY IN THE EYES OF FEMINISTS...
69.
WE’LL HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THE COMMON USE OF “MAN” TO CONNATE “HUMINITY.”
AGAIN I ADVISE THAT YOU CHANGE THIS
BECAUSE IT MIGHT BE OFF-PUTTING TO SOME
READERS....
76. SEE PRASAD, TAGORE USED
“HUMANITY” I THINK YOU SHOULD TOO.
Surya Nath Prasad Responses on the above cited comments of Edward
The word ‘man’ has not been replaced with human. Man means human also. But man will be man or human only after manifestation through religion or peace education. Before that, he or she merely looks like man or human. Jean Jacques Rousseau rightly observed: “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.” To be man, he has to be free from the shackles. Man is the central idea of this Chapter, for Hinduism is the religion of man- making peace education. In this sense, the word ‘man’ is used as a very broad, universal and comprehensive term as in the process of to be what the man (he or she) is. And ‘man’ does not mean male adult only, but man includes male and female both. In the above cited quote of Rousseau also, man includes male and female both. In this Chapter at page 16, in Taittiriyopanishad, the word man is used as inclusive of male and female both when man is defined as made of five sheaths, and also at the same page, this word is used in the same sense when Saint Tulsidasa defines man, in his Ramacharitmanas, as made of five elements. In this Chapter at page 3, the word man (for male and female both) was used by the Greek philosopher while he was searching man. Jayashankar Prasad (at page 11 of this Chapter) also used the word man inclusive of male and female both.
The following named books have the word ‘man’, carrying the meaning inclusive of male and female both, in their titles:
1. Man, The Unknown
by Alexis Carrel
2. The Spiritual Crisis of Man
by Paul Brunton
3. The Religion of Man
by Rabindranath Tagore
4. Man and Indian Societ
by K. Damodaran
5. The Concept of Man
Edited by S.
Radhakrishnan & P. T. Raju
In the book: The Concept of Man, there are the following Chapters in which the word ‘Man’ is used for male and female both:
1. The Concept of Man in Greek Thought
by John Wild
2. The Concept of Man in Jewish Thought
by A. J. Heschel
3. The Concept of Man in Chinese Thought
by W. T. Chan
4. The Concept of Man in Indian Thought
by P. T. Raju
5. The Concept of Man in Christian Thought
by Ernst Benz
6. The Concept of Man in Islamic Thought
by Ibrahim Madkour
7. The Concept of Man in Marxist Thought
by M. B. Mitin
And there are many other thinkers who used the term ‘man’ as inclusive of male and female both, and for the human also.
Edward J. B. Comments
13. To grow? May be to educate humans to their fullest potential?
16. Very nice… how much will you get into the origins of
Hinduism as peace education-an
examination of the peace education
in the Vedas and Upanishads would be most excellent…
SO YOU ARE VALIDATING THE IMPORTANCE OF HINDUISM "FROM WESTERN PERSPECTIVES, OK....
19. CAPITAL “C”
WHY IS THIS CATHOLIC MINDED? I DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT PART OF THE QUOTE…
21. SO
MUCH OF THESE QUOTES CELEBRATE THE GREATNESS OF HINDUISM… HOW DO
THEY CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR THESIS
ABOUT THE APPROACH OF HINDUISM AS
INHERENTLY PEACE EDUCATION? THAT
NEEDS TO BE MADE CLEAR SOMEWHERE IN
THIS STRING OF QUOTES….
25.
AGAIN, HOW DO THESE QUOTES LEAD BACK TO THE CENTRAL POINT OF THIS
CHAPTER.... PLEASE INTERPRET THE
QUOTES FOR YOUR GLOBAL READERS AND ALSO
SUMMARIZE THE MAJOR THEMES FROM
THE QUOTE. HOW DO THOSE THEMES LINK
BACK TO THE MAJOR THESIS OF THE
CHAPTER?
26. HOW DOES THIS CONNECT TO HINDUISM,
SPIRITUALITY AND PEACE EDUCATION?
28. VERY
INTERESTING AND TRULY SO MANY HAVE BEEN INFLUENCE.BUT WHY AND HOW?
A LIST AGAIN ESTABLISHES THE
GREATNESS OF HINDUISM, YET IT DOES NOT CONVEY
WHY IS IT A GREAT RELIGION OF PEACE
EDUCATION …. SO I’M MAKING COMMON
COMMENTS HERE FOR OVERALL REVISIONS…
32. VALIDATE PLEASE.
SO FAR, THIS CHAPTER READS AS
HINDUISM IS A GREAT RELIGION THAT INFLUENCED
THE BEST OF THE WORLD…… IT DOESN’T CONNECT TO
THE CFNTRAL THEME OF THE
BOOK ABOUT RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY
AND PEACE EDUCATION-MAY BE IMPLICITLY,
BUT THAT HAS TO BE MADE EXPLICIT
FOR YOUR GLOBAL READERSHIP…
33. NOW WE GET TO PEACE, GREAT.
34.
THIS SECTION ON COUNTING THE AMOUNT OF TIMES SHANTI USED IN VARIOUS TEXTS
IS INTERESTING. YET IT READS
RATHER CHOPPY AND DISCONNECTED…PLEASE FIX…
36. The format of these quotes is unclear… Please re-arrange for better readability.
ALSO EXPLAIN HOW THEY ARE LINKED TO PEACE AND PEACE EDUCATION…
45. HOW
IS THE FOUNDATION OF HINDUISM (VEDAS) LINKED TO THE UPANISHADS? ARE
THE UPANISHADS THE COMPLETION OF
THE VEDAS-AND BOTH SERVE AS THE
FOUNDATION OF HINDUISM? PLEASE
REWORD THIS LAST SENTENCE FOR YOUR
GLOBAL READERSHIP.....
49. HOW
WILL THIS UNIVERSAL CLAIM FIT INTO A BOOK WITH CHAPTER ON JUDAISM,
ISLAM, CHRISTIANITY, BUDDHISM,
ETC....
51. I NEED TO LOOK UP THIS WORD... TO THE UNAWARE REDER,
I WOULD THINK IT WAS A
REFERENCE TO CATHOLISM-A
DENOMINATION OF CHRISTIANITY....
53. OK...SO I DO NOT KNOW THE DERIVATION MEANING OF THE
WORD....HOWEVER COULD
YOU CHOSE ANOTHER WORD BECAUSE
OTHER CHRISTIANS AND WESTERNERS WHO
READ THIS BOOK WILL BE CONFUSED.
AUDIENCE IS
VERY IMPORTANT IN WRITING BECAUSE WRITING IS A COMMUNAL ACT OF
KNOWLEDGE SHARING VIA DIALOGUE.
54. BY SAYING ANY “TRUE” RELIGION. YOU MIGHT EXCLUDE
OTHER RELIGIONS THAT WILL
BE PART OF THE THIS BOOK....
60. LOT OF IDEAS.... SEPARATE INTO SEPARATE SENTENCES FOR
CLARITY.. I THINK YOU
ARE SAYING THAT EDUATION AT PRESENT
PREPARES PEOPLE FOR THE WORLD OF
WORK, NOT FOR SELF-KNOWLEDGE THAT WILL ULTIMATELY LEAD ONE TO SUPREME
BLISS AND PEACE-WHICH WILL IN
TURN BENEFIT SOCIETY AS A WHOLE...
62. EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF KNOWING ALL ELEMENTS OF THE
OUTER WORLDS WITHOUT
SELF-KNOWLEDGE....CNNECTS TO A
QUOTE IN THE BHAGWAD GITA...
63. YES, YES, THIS IS THE HEART OF THE CONNECTION OF
HINDUISM AND PEACE
EDUCATION, NO, PRASAD?
Arming himself with a disciplined
Seeing everything with an equal eye,
He sees the self in all creatures in the self
(Bhaghavad Gita, p.67, Verse 29)
64. PRASAD, THIS IS THE TITLE OF MY CHAPTER CONTRIBUTION TO THIS BOOK,
“Self” Re-Education for Globalizing Teachers:
Gandhi, Deep Ecology, & Multicultural
Peace Education
THAT’S REALLY GREAT!
65. WHAT DOES SELF-REALIZATION LEAD TO?
73. ATOMIZED INDIVIDUAL RATHER THAN REMAINING UNDIFFERENTIATED TOTALITY...
80. I NEED TO FIND THE DEEPER MEANING OF THIS WORD (catholic) PRASAD....
82. YES NATIONS ARE UN-REALIZED, NO?
83. HMM.....SO YOU ARE TRYING TO SPREAD HINDUISM, OR THE
UNIVERSAL MESSAGES
WITHIN? THE MESSAGES WILL CARRY,
THE SPREADING OF HINDUISM WILL BE
BLOCKED BECAUSE OF PEOPLE’S
CLINGING TO THEIR OWN RELIGIONS AND VIEWS OF
THE WORLD–SO AGAIN, PLEASE BE
CAREFUL ABOUT SPREADING HINDUISM AND NOT
THE MESSAGE IT CONTAINS –I HOPE I
MAKE SENSE HERE....
Surya Nath Prasad Responses of on the above cited Comments of Edward
13. To grow (means to
manifest) itself is complete concept, in this sense man (he or
she) is inherently able to grow.
Man is himself like a seed to grow fully.
Nobody
can teach him or her except he
himself or she herself.
16. Thanks for your nice
comments. Hinduism of Vedanta stands for its own merit
of universality (catholicity).
Western thinkers validate their knowledge discovered
after verification of the truth of Vedantic Hinduism. And then they
appreciated it.
19. Capital ‘C’ is not
needed in the word catholic, because here the word catholic
has not been used as cult or sect,
but it has been used as carrying the meaning
of ‘universal’. Catholic minded
means universal-minded/global-minded. Catholic
means universal/covering a wide
range also, not only a cult of Christianity.
21. It has been made clear
how the different quotes help in explaining Hinduism as
inherently peace education, though
not directly with its name, but with its full
description. As per your advice, it
has been done so well. Please go through
my
concluding presentation( also cited
below as ready reference) in the particular
sections of the Chapter where views
of great thinkers like Besant, Annie,
Toynbee, A. J., Renou, Louis, and Monier-Williams are quoted at pages 32-34.
Thinkers of the world
have appreciated Hinduism not for it contains good ideas, but it has
the
thoughts to be tested to discover the pre-exited knowledge within each and
everyone,
though in many times, it may be in contrast to the
existing or the past-discovered
knowledge(in the field of science,
religion, philosophy, and other disciplines). And for this
contradiction, Hinduism of Vedanta does not
punish for the discovery of new truth, but
appreciates and encourages for this by
giving proper recognition through acceptance,
because Hinduism considers discovery of new
truth as the realization of higher truth from
the journey through the
lower truth. And this process of uncovering the pre-existed
knowledge is the dynamic
side of Hinduism based on Vedanta i.e. Peace Education.
Though the thinkers, whose
views on Hinduism are expressed, did not use the word
‘peace education’ for Hinduism,
they put all the description of peace education in
appreciating and describing
Hinduism as non-exclusive, universal/global/catholic religion
suitable to all diverse
human beings for integration in their
human personality to be global
man of peace and non-violence.
(Prasad, 2009, p. 34)
25. It has been done. Please go through my interpretation
especially the particular
section at page 20 of the last two
paras of the section. It has been done very
nicely, which is cited here for the
readers for their ready reference:
Even today, in every
religion, we find giving blessings at the time of birth and marriage
anniversaries, and at every occasion of
happiness. People express their good wishes at
every occasion of happiness. Also at the
time of sorrow, we pray for grant of courage
and strength to bear
the loss. Even in our daily life, we give good wishes to each other
saying, ‘good
morning’, ‘good day’, ‘good afternoon’, ‘good night’. Perhaps, these would
be the reasons for
the great philosopher and one of the peace initiators Immanuel Kant
to believe in goodwill and
to say: “Goodwill is the only good that is good without
qualification”. Kant,
2002, p. 1)
The ideas contained in the quotes are for health,
happiness, wealth, goodwill, long life,
well-being and peace
for all. Fulfilment of these needs is peace, and denial of needs is
violence. The ways
through which, these needs are fulfilled, is peace education, which is
dynamic side of
universal religion i.e. Vedantic Hinduism. Thus all quotes are linked
with
peace and peace education. (Prasad,
2009)
26. Under the tenets of
Hinduism, the persons of other sects, who experimented the
truth, practiced it and realized it,
may be called Hindus. They were
contributors
of Hinduism enriching it, believers
in spirituality and practitioners of peace
education, because they were
trained and skilled in education of their selves for
their manifestation. In this sense,
the great persons, who were influenced by
Hinduism, have better connection to
Hinduism, spirituality and peace education.
Please refer to my interpretation
at page 19, particularly the last para of this
section.
28. The reply, for why and
how so many persons have been influenced by Hinduism,
requires so many pages to write on
each person, which will not be possible for a
Chapter of a book. If why and how
are explained and the greatness of Hinduism
is established even though its
greatness, as you think, does not convey why is it
a great religion of peace
education. For the influence of Hinduism on the great
persons of the world conveys
Hinduism as a great religion of peace education,
please refer my interpretation
cited in the last para of the Sub-section 6 of this
Chapter. However, the
interpretation is quoted here for the readers:
The great thinkers of the world, who were
influenced by Hinduism, manifested their
selves through discoveries
in their writings. And their discoveries of knowledge are
due to their perpetual
learning of their selves. In this sense, they practiced peace
education (of Vedantic
Hinduism of self education), unknowingly as a term, through
the use of knowledge about
their selves, which helped them in the realization of their
selves leading them to be
peaceful and non-violent for themselves and others.
32. Without knowing the
basics of Hinduism how can one draw the conclusion that it
leads to the theme of the book:
Spirituality, Religion and Peace Education. The
concept of peace found in Hinduism
can make better connection with spirituality
and peace education. Prayers in Vedas
of Hinduism have good thoughts
including the idea of peace.
However, good thoughts in prayers have the effects
of three, means a prayer is
three-in-one. Good thoughts in prayer can preserve,
maintain peace, prevent from the
disturbances of peace and cure if peace is
disturbed. Because these all are the attributes of
religion and peace, and this
connect very much to the theme of
the book Spirituality, Religion and Peace
Education.
33. To
get peace through prayer (through goodwill) or through the religion by way of
perpetual knowledge and practice of
the self for discovery / manifestation is the
product. Hence it cannot be taught,
it is self-realization. Thus Vedantic religion
or
prayer is peace education.
34. All
goodwill prayers are the attributes of peace and peace education. Each
prayer leads to peace, hence
all attributes of peace are very much
connected
with peace and peace education.
36. The
format of the quotes is the copy taken from the book The Calls of Vedas
written by Prof. Abinash Chandra Bose, Ph. D. in English, a renowned thinker
of
Vedas, and this book was published
by Bharati Vidya Bhavan , Bombay, a very
popular publisher of oriental literature
and studies. We cannot interfere with the
quotes of the other authors, or
even in their format they adopted.
The
ideas contained in the quotes are for health, happiness, wealth, goodwill,
long life, well-being and peace for all.
Fulfilment of these needs is peace, and
denial of these needs is violence. The ways
through which these needs are
satisfied is peace education, which is the
dynamic side of universal religion.
Hence all quotes are linked with peace and
peace education.
45.
Link between Vedas and Upanishads has been explained in this section (Sub-
section-3.What is Hinduism?, at
page 5, 6, and 7). Please go through them, and
be clear how Vedas and Upanishads
are so related.
The following excerpts are from the pages as cited above for the readers to refer:
Thus Vedas are the
foundations of Hinduism. They are fountain-heads of Hinduism. ...
Vedas are creations
of the ancient Indian sages who expressed their intuitive spiritual
experiences in the
Upanishads. Upanishads – the ending parts of the Vedas – are truly
the basis of
Hinduism. ...The Upanishads are the concluding portions of the Vedas
therefore they are
called Vedant, the last phase of the Vedic revelation. ... Upanishads
come at the end of
the Vedas and hence the teachings they embody are known as the
Vedanta.
...
The
Vedanta, which means Upanishads, does not believe in a book, a person and a
personal God. There
is no sect, no creed, no caste in Vedanta. According to Vedanta,
we are all God,
incarnations of God. In its view, the man’s very self is God.
49. Universal claim of Hinduism
is of its own quality of universality because it
believes God in every man (male or
female) to realize this true divine nature.
Hence Hinduism is everywhere, it
is in all, and for all. To be more clear about
the universal nature of Hinduism,
you may read deeply the ideas of Swami
Vivekananda (page 8 of this
Chapter) expressed at the Parliament of religions in
1893, at Chicago, USA, and views
of other world thinkers on Hinduism cited in
this Chapter. Don’t fear, there
would be no clash with the tenets of other sects
like Judaism, Islam, Christianity,
Buddhism, etc.
51. 53. 80. :
Here the word ‘catholicity’ means
universality. It has not been used as a
deomination of Christianity. And
this word was used by a great saint philosopher
Swami Vivekananda in 1893 at the
Parliament of Religions at Chicago in
America. The word ‘catholic’ as
universal, and especially for Indian religions, was
used by world renowned historian
Arnold J. Toynbee also (see at page 21of this
Chapter).
Also kindly refer to the following:
1.
Catholic means universal (also, with
other
meaning, p135). Bulcke, Father Camil
(2005). An
English-Hindi Dictionary. Ranchi:
Catholic Press.
2.
Catholic means universal (also, with
other
meaning, p128).Thompson, D. (2000). The Pocket Oxford Dictionary.
New
Delhi (YMCA Library Building):
The Oxford University Press.
3. Catholic is an adjective derived
from the Greek adjective
Katholikos
meaning universal (p.1). Wikipedia, the
free
encyclopedia (2009). Modified May
30,2009, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic
Thus Hinduism based on Vedanta is not a communal religion. This truth has been confirmed with the views of renowned personalities of the world also. Please refer the views of thinkers in this regard cited in this Chapter.
Do not think that the readers and the audience are ignorant people, and we are the only knowledgeable persons, sometimes they know better than us. Thus nobody can teach anybody. But we all learn from each other.
54. The words ‘any true’
have been excluded and the word ‘universal’ has been put
before the word religion, because
Hinduism has been considered as universal
religion by many thinkers of home
and abroad. And Hinduism gives recognition
of any religion as universal beyond
time and space, which based on the
knowledge of the self for discovery
and manifestation through perpetual test and
retest of the truth already
discovered.
And the fact is that the title of the book
is not only Religion and Peace Education,
but Spirituality, Religion and
Peace Education. The religion of church, temple and
mosque is the result of spirituality
of the great personalities. Lord Sri Krishna,
Jesus Christ, Gautama Buddha,
Prophet Mohammed were highly spiritual
persons, and through the knowledge
of their selves and practice of spirituality
they were realized masters. In
spirituality, one needs not to go to a mosque,
temple or a church in search of God.
Spirituality is all about the spirit existing
within every human being, who is
abode of God, and through the knowledge of
the self or spirit he or she is able
to manifest the God within. And this is the
religion of Vedantic Hinduism based on spirituality.
60. Correct. So this peace
education should be core curriculum in all educations, and
it should continue beyond campus
education till the end of life of the every
person.
62. Here one may trace the
genesis of the concept of peace education to know the
self what it is and how it can be
unfolded or realized.
The
period of Gita (200 BCE) is much
later than the period of Upanishads
(700
BCE), and even Buddhism (500). Gita is also revival of Upanishads and some
reformation of Buddhism.
63. O yes, this is the heart
of the connection of Hinduism as peace education. Here I
divided this section in two parts:
(a) roots of the concept of peace education, and
(b) the genesis of the meaning of
peace education
Again the quote which you cited from Gita has its source in Upanishads. Kindly
refer to the following verse of the
Upanishad:
Of a certainty the man who can
see all creatures in himself, himself in all creatures, knows
no sorrow. Isa Upanishad (In The Ten principal Upanishads,
1937, p. 15).
And now compare with the verse of Bhagavad Gita, which you have cited in
your
comment.
64. The title of your
Chapter is excellent. But why only
teachers, basically we are all
global. According to Chhandogya Upanishad,
man is able to declare: “I, indeed,
am this whole world”. And the great
global teacher of the world Socrates
declared, “I am not a citizen of
Athens, or Greece but a citizen of the world.”
Therefore let all be aware to be
global through to be-global teachers.
65. Self-realization, which
means manifestation of the self through discovery of
knowledge, leads to fulfilment i.e.
peace-individual as well as global. Peace
within each individual leads to
global peace.
73.
However, the atomized individual is full because he is the manifestation of
full.
The Isa Upanishad embodies in its very opening verse the central theme
of all
the Upanishads, namely, the spiritual unity and solidarity of all
existence. This
Upanishad
insists on the unity and reality of all the manifestation of the absolute.
There is a verse in it – “That is
full, this is full. This fullness has been projected
from that fullness. When this
fullness merges in that fullness, all that remains in
full. Om, Peace! Peace! Peace!
80.
In this regard of the word ‘catholic’, kindly refer to my response for your
comment
51 and 53.
82.
Certainly nation states are unaware about this peace education of man-making.
They are fearful with the
prevailing present peace education which directly
affects their system of governance,
not the people, who are the living parts of the
system.
83.
To say about the son is right, about its mother is not. Highlight the son, hide
the
mother. It is not proper. If I say
about the messages, people would like to know
their origin or the source of the
messages. Let the people know the truth of every
religion.
However,
I am not spreading Hinduism, but my effort is to explain what Hinduism
truly stands for, especially Vedantic Hinduism. Vedantic
Hinduism, which is
peace education being the study of
the self/manifestation of the self/self-
realization, is non-creedal,
non-ceremonial, and non-believer of the
authority of
any book, any person and alone
truth
Even Buddhism, which is revival of Vedantic
Hinduism (Upanishads), also does
not believe in the authority of any
book, any person, and alone truth. Buddha
himself once said to his disciples:
Never accept any truth because
it is written in a great book. Never
accept any truth
because it is said by a great
man. Never accept the truth even because it is said by me
(Buddha). Accept the truth only
when your own self considers it true. (Prasad, 2009)
…the Upanishads are
a great source of strength. Therein lies power to invigorate the
whole world. They
call with trumpet voice upon the weak, the miserable, the
downtrodden of all
the race to stand on their own feet and be free; freedom, physical
freedom, mental
freedom and spiritual freedom are the watchwords of the
Upanishads….
(Prasad, 2009)
Thus Vedantic Hinduism being non-creedal declaration is not a new religion. It is not confined to any time and place. It is everywhere, only point is to be conscious of it. Hence the whole world, including India-the place of its origin, needs to be aware about this religion. Vedantic Hinduism and its messages cannot be separated.
COMMENTS AND RESPONSES IN SECOND REVISION
Editor Edward Brantmeier’s Comments (dated 11June, 2009) and author Surya Nath Prasad’s Responses (dated11 July, 2009) for the second revision of the Chapter are:
Edward J. B. Comment
At page 4 in the second revision of the Chapter, Editor Edward deleted the words “some vitally”.
Surya Nath Prasad Response
At page 4 below, the words ‘some vitally’should not be deleted. These are related to vital energy, and here due to lack of this energy an individual may be handicapped vitally, and may suffer from the diseases of gas, acidity and cough. And the word ‘vitality’ is one of the basic elements of man. For details, please refer to Endnote 4.
Here also the matters written under Endnotes 4 are cited below for ready reference
4. Vitality, which is one of the five elements which constitute the man in view of Taittiriyopanishd (1965, p.146), is to be manifested. Vitality (prana) is vital energy. It is vital force, which is Brahman (God). The material body is produced by the vital force which is higher category. In absence of Prana, says Brhadaranyaka Upanishad (2004) Anna (food) decays (V. 12. 1, pp.420-426). Chhandogya Upanishad (2007) also states that without Life this will die (VI. 11. 3, p. 462). Vitality is only superfine ether (akasa). It is electricity, it is magnetism. It is thrown out by the brain as thought. Everything is prana (vitality). It is vitality (prana) that is moving every part of the body, becoming the different forces. Normal breathing and breathing in exercises are the rhythmic action of the vitality (prana). According to Chhandogya Upanishad (2007), “Prana (Vitality) is indeed the eldest and the best (of the organs)” (p. 329), because the vital force develops the embryo from the very beginning, and other organs begin to function only after the vital force does so (Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, 2004, 6. 1, p. 441). One may refer to this Upanishad (pp.445-453) to know more about the superiority of the vital force. (Prasad, 2009)
Edward J. B. Comment
6. Edward
asked me “to explain what the Gita to your non-Hindu audience
members....” on the following remarks
of Huxley quoted by me:
Aldous Huxley about Gita describe the philosophy of Vedanta as “one of the clearest and most comprehensive summaries of the Perennial philosophy ever to have been made. Hence, its enduring value, [is] not only for Indians, but for all mankind” (Prasad,2009)
Surya Nath Prasad Response
6. The message of
Gita to all including non-Hindu audience is: They should work
constantly. They should work, but
they should not be attached; they should not be
caught. They should reserve unto
themselves the power of detaching themselves
from everything, however beloved,
however much the soul might yearn for it,
however great the pangs of misery
they feel if they are going to leave it whenever
they want.
Edward J. B. Comments
20. Again,
I still recommend that you change all the uses of man to human—it makes
more sense to me…. To be fully
human is the goal of Hinduisum…
Surya Nath Prasad Response
20. It is not
proper to replace the word ‘man’ to ‘human’ here because God is not
only in human, but also in inhuman
and anti-human. Man is the common word for
all these three types of man.
Edward J. B. Comment
23. You may consider using little self and big Self in
this chapter—this is done by
other authors writing of
Hinduism…The big Self is the Brahman and atman
realized as one…., the little self
has the latent potential for realization of
oneness…
Surya Nath Prasad Response
23. There is
no dualism in Hinduism based on Vedatant even in the use of capital
letter ‘S’ and small letter ‘s’ in
the words ‘Self’ and ‘self’ for God and man
respectively.
Edward J. B. Comment
30. You quote
Swami Vivekananda multiple times in this chapter.. Does this
represent all of Hinduism? For example, there’s no mention of Swami
Bhaktivedanta and the multiple
paths of the Hinduism toward oneess and
moksha. There is not mention of the—path of
meditation, path of knowledge,
path of devotion, and path of
service are just four paths---you may consider
highlighting how Hinduisum
naturally embraces diversity via an approach that is
inclusive of the multiple
ways---Saivites, Shaktas, Vaishavites, etc…..
Surya Nath Prasad Response
30. In the chapter, I have used Hinduism in a very
specific term as Hinduism based
on Vedanta (Upanishads), and Swami
Vivekananda was a great thinker and
practitioner of Vedantic philosophy
of Hinduism. Hence his ideas have been
quoted many times.
Kindly refer to your previous Comment [EJB45], through which you
wished to
know the link between Vedas and
Upanishads, and I properly replied
your query.
You may refer also to my
corresponding response in this regard.
Here
again I tell you that Vedas are the foundations of Hinduism. The Vedas are
classified into the following
paths: The Path of Devotion, The Path of Mysticism,
The Path of Splendour, The Path of
Action and The Path of Knowledge. These
are the classifications of verses
of Vedas. The Vedanta (Upanishads) is the
knowledge and action parts of
Vedas, which has been taken into the
consideration and interpretation of
Hinduism and Peace Education. Besides this,
selected verses in prayers cited
under the heading: Concept of Peace in
Hinduism in the chapter are included from all the paths of Vedas.
Other
scriptures are acceptable when they are in agreement with the Vedanta
(Upanishads), and are to be set aside when
they contradict the Vedanta
(Upanishads). They (other scriptures of
Hinduism) have only a derivative validity.
For a clear and full discussion of the topic
see :ankara’s
commentary on the
Vedanta-Sutras, II. i. 1.
You have mentioned three sects of
Hinduism: Saivism, Saktism and
Vaishnavism.. These sects base their
doctrines and dogmas on the Agamas.
Agamas is the one of the six
classifications of Hindu scriptures. Though they do
not derive their authority from the
Vedas they are not antagonistic to the teaching
of Vedas. Chapter is pin-pointed to
Vedantic Hinduism and Peace education.
Edward J. B. Comment
36.
whole sentence reads quite roughly.
Please try again and make it clear for the
This reader….
Reading the below cited text written by me at page 23 of the Chapter, Editor Edward made the above stated remarks:
Like the concept of peace education which has its roots in Chhandogya Upanishad, one may get the clues of its meaning in Taittiriya Upanishad (another scripture of Hinduism), a composition of its period is the same as Chhandogya Upanishad, i.e. before mid-first millennium B.C.E. and in Ramacharitmanas of Saint Tulsidas-1532-1623, where we find the meaning of the self or the man, which helps us to define peace education in true sense. (Prasad, 2009)
Surya Nath Prasad Response
36.
Please refer to the succeeding lines, which make very clear that every
individual
has five selves, viz. physical,
vital, mental, intellectual and spiritual, or every
man is made of these five elements
(body, vitality, mind, intellect and spirit), and
the process of
their integral manifestation is peace education.
Edward J. B. Comment
37.
What is meant about vitality here? Please clarify…. For your international
audience…..
Surya Nath Prasad Response
37. Please see the Endnote 4 for clarification of the word 'vitality'.
Edward J. B. COMMENT
38.
Vitality translated as prana—ok. So vitality
is the intelligent energy of the body, it
is
life energy—be clear…..
Surya Nath Prasad Response
38. Vitality is prana in Sanscrit.. It is not intelligent energy, but
it is vital energy, it is
vital force. When it is in
abeyance, it lives in akasa (ether).
When it diversifies, it
manifests as various forces like
gravitation, centrifugal forces etc. Again, please
refer to the Endnote 4 to be
clear.
Edward J. B. Comment
51. this shouldn’t be a separate section, but integrated
somewhere or deleted
altogehther…
Surya Nath Prasad Resonse
51.
Try to know the present place of exiting peace education in educational
institutions of the nation-states
in the world, and reasons of very less numbers of
peace education institutions and
less number of courses on peace education.
Here in this regard, I have cited the names
of peace education thinkers whose
findings of their studies
enlighten us. One may refer to their studies, statements
and reports for details.
However, this needs to be a separate section
to make aware to the global
audience about the present exiting
state of peace education in different parts of
the world, because peace education
is a man-making education. Hence
everyone must have access to it in
the environment of violence throughout the
world.
Edward J. B. Comment
52. so the last
message you want to send to the reader is the need to spread
Hinduism or consciousness of it
everywhere? Hmm…. Is that what you want
the reader to leave your chapter
with?
Surya Nath Prasad Response
52. There is no
intention to spread the message of Hinduism.
But to make peoples
aware about the good ideas and
their practice inherent in Vedantic Hinduism
helpful to enabling all mankind to
know and manifest their self to be human
towards themselves and others for
peace and non-violence is the main purpose.
We should not crucify the ideas merely
for their roots in any particular religion.
Let the people including
enlightened readers to know the good elements in all
religions of the world for
unfolding the best within them to be human to build
non-oppressive, non-exploitative and non-violent local as well as global society.
COMMENTS FOR THIRD REVISION AND RESPONES ON THEM
Comments of Editors Jing Lin, Edward J. Brantmeier and Jack Miller (dated 31July, 2009) for the third revision of the Chapter and Responses of author Surya Nath Prasad (dated 20 August, 2009) on their comments are:
Editors Jing Lin, Edward J. B. and Jack Miller Comments
From: Jing Lin
To: suryanath prasad
Cc: Jing Lin ; Edward.Brantmeier@ColoState.EDU ; jmiller@oise.utoronto.ca
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 8:53 AM
Subject: Suggestions for Revision of Your Chapter
Dear Dr. Surya Prasad:
We hope you are having a good summer.
Yes we received your chapter and the three co-editors of the book on Spirituality, Religion and Peace Education recently held a meeting. We went over and discussed your chapter. While we felt that your chapter has great insights toward peace education from a Hinduist perspective, there are some suggestions that we strongly hope you will take into consideration if you are willing to revise the chapter again to be included in the book.
The first suggestion is to remove the repeated use of "man" as representing both man and woman. Although you hint that you mean "man" to be the humanity, it reads as highly patriarchal or paternal. It leaves the readers a strong impression of women being secondary or as non-beings. Further, it is a scholarly norm now that research publications adopt gender sensitive and equitable language.
The second suggestion is to be more inclusive in the language while you are discussing the role of Hinduism. Currently, many wordings or quotes leave the impression that Hinduism is the only religion, or the ultimate truth. Please revise accordingly.
Thirdly, all the other chapters for the book are within the range of 30 pages (references included), hence we suggest you trim down the chapter to 30 pages. One possible way to do this is to reduce the amount of quotes (including poems) and to be more focused on peace education from a Hinduist perspective.
We hope you will find our suggestions reasonable. We wish you will revise the chapter taking our suggestions seriously. Can you return the revised chapter in three weeks?
Best wishes
Jing Lin, Ed Brantmeier and Jack Miller
Author Surya Nath Prasad Responses
Re: Suggestions for Revision of Your Chapter
From: surynathprasad <peaceeducationsnp@yahoo.com>
To: Jing Lin jinglin@umd.edu
Cc: Edward.Brantmeier@ColoState.EDU; jmiller@oise.utoronto.ca; Jing Lin jinglin@umd.edu
Sent: Thu, 20 August, 2009 8:13:58 P.M. |
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Dear Prof. Lin, Miller and Edward, Kindly refer to your letter dated 31 July 2009 regarding your 3 suggestions for revision in my chapter Hinduism and Peace Education. 1. Regarding your first suggestion, please refer again my Responses for the Edward’s Comments 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 59, 69, and 76 sent on 04 June 2009. You are very much aware through my responses how the different thinkers use ‘man’ as the common word for male and female in their ideas and even in the titles of their books. Besides these thinkers, when Confucius says man is basically good, Bible teaches man is created in the image of God, Georges Lapassade (1963)says man is born ‘prematurely’, UNESCO’S Learning to Be (1973) observes man as biologically unfinished and is obliged to learn unceasingly in order to survive and evolve, and Erich Fromm (1973) considers man who can never cease to ‘enter life’ is to be born in human form, they all also mean ‘man’ as male and female both. But you editors have your own meaning for the word ‘man’ i.e. male only, disregarding the meaning of man means human beings (male and female both) as considered by different thinkers, and cited in dictionaries and encyclopedias. And you, as editors, dictate the author to remove the repeated use of ‘man’ in his chapter. 2. Concerning your second suggestion, the whole Hinduism is very vast. Recently Sri Ramkrishna Math, Bangalore has published Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism in three volumes, Dr. Kane edited History of Religion (particularly History of Hinduism) in five volumes, and many pages have been written on Hinduism by different thinkers of India and abroad. But the author (myself) has been throughout more specific about Hinduism, and more particular about Vedantic Hinduism. Wordings and quotes of world thinkers cited by the author (me) in the chapter are for the validation about the Hinduism, not to say Hinduism is the only religion or it is not to say, it is the ultimate truth, as you think, because Hinduism believes in perpetual discovery of new truth. But you ask me to revise what? Do you want deletion of the quotes which say about the facts of Hinduism? Because in the first revision you asked the author of the chapter to change the word ‘catholic’ from the quotes of world renowned thinkers Arnold J. Toynbee and Swami Vivekananda , which was not proper. Here again you editors know only one meaning of the word ‘catholic’ i.e. a branch of Christianity, while they use the word ‘catholic’ as universal. Please refer to my Response of your Comment 19 sent on 04 June 2009. The author of the chapter thinks that the editors of the chapters are not very clear about the meaning of creed and religion. 3.
About your third suggestion,
the first text of the chapter was of 19 pages with references sent on 15
August 2008; in first revision, it was of 27 pages; and in second revision,
it was of 40 pages. You editors are the reason for increase in number of
pages in the chapter. You asked the author to write about the thinkers whose
quotes are cited in the chapter, even though some of them are highly
renowned, Nobel Laureate and well- known persons. Even description of some concepts
and words was given on your command. Please refer to my Response of your
Comments In view of the author, the editors should be well-versed in the concept and meaning of the words and ideas of the author whose works are under their editing. No doubt, the editors must have their own ideas, but they should not try to impose their ideas on the author, and force him to speak and write their ideas (editors’ ideas) in his (author's) chapter. As an author, the editor should have his own distinctive writing style. But as an editor, the editor needs to perfectly match the author’s writing style. In essence, when the editor is editing the chapter of an author, he needs to pretend he is the author and communicates using his or her (author’s) voice and style. In the present case, the editors fail to do this job, hence I, as a contributor of a chapter on the theme- Hinduism and Peace Education, withdraw myself from the scheme of the book Spirituality, Religion and Peace Education edited by Prof. Jing Lin, Edward Brantmeier and Jack Miller to be published by Information Age Publishing. And the editors should not use or include the text of the chapter of mine as cited above either in the part or in full or in any form in the book or anywhere. With thanks and best wishes, Surya Nath Prasad |
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Hinduism and Peace Education written by Surya Nath Prasad is being published by Peace Education (Publications), Nagpur, India in the book form (ISBN: 978-81-909478-1-7). Pages are more than 100 in the book. Contents in the book are: 1.What Is Hinduism? 2.Hinduism in View of World Thinkers, 3.Impact of Hinduism on other Religions and Persons of other Sects, 4.Thinkers and Practitioners of Similar Theories and Praxis of Hinduism, 5.Peace Education: Why? 6. Concept of Peace in Hinduism, 7.Peace Education in Hinduism: (a) Concept of Peace Education, (b) Meaning of Peace Education, 8.No Fear of Peace Education for Nation-States, 9. Need of Awakening among Peoples towards Peace Education, Notes, References, Selected Bibliography, and Index
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