Nonviolence

What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?

conscientious objection to military service in 1978

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)

Gandhi Information Center (President)
http://home.snafu.de/mkgandhi
http://www.themanifesto.info

social scientist (educational and political sciences, author, counsellor of conscientious objectors, media education, most recent: Gandhi exhibition in the Anti-War-Museum in Berlin, 30 Jan to 10 Apr 2008, Tolstoy exhibition in the Anti-War-Museum in Berlin, 13 Nov 2008 to 11 Jan 2009)

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise

Germany

What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?

Germany

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?

educational and political sciences

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.themanifesto.info

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://home.snafu.de/mkgandhi

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?

Peacebuilding, Youth, Education

Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?

Research

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?

Gandhi, Tolstoy, Nonviolence
dialogues of Gandhi with contemporaries (publication of research results)

If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications

1994:

Tolstoy and Gandhi (Non-violent Resistance) (on the occasion of Gandhiji's 125th birthday); Berlin 1994 ( Gandhi-Informations-Zentrum , Berlin ; ISBN 3-930093-07-3)

1997:

Tolstoy and Gandhi; in: Gandhi and the Contemporary World. Essays to mark the 125th Anniversary of His Birth (ed. by Antony Copley and George Paxton); Chennai, India 1997, pp. 196-204 (Indo-British Historical Society, Chennai, India; ISBN 819-000-68-19)

Hermann Kallenbach - Mahatma Gandhi's friend in South Africa (co-author: Isa Sarid); Berlin 1997 (Gandhi-Informations-Zentrum, Berlin; ISBN 3-930093-13-8)

Letter to a Hindoo - Taraknath Das, Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi; Berlin 1997 (Gandhi-Informations-Zentrum, Berlin; ISBN 3-930093-12-X)

1999:

Review Article: "Swadeshi - der Unabhaengigkeitsgedanke in Gandhis Wirtschaftskonzept" (Dr. Kirsten Sames), in: Internationales Asienforum/International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 3-4/1999 (November), vol. 30, pp. 401-403 (ISSN 0020-9449) (Review in English language)

Manifesto of Non-Violence: Tolstoy, Gandhi & Responsibility of Intellectuals, in: The International Journal of Humanities and Peace (IJHP), Flagstaff (Arizona , USA) 1999, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 76-79 (ISSN 1042-4032) (Article in English language)

2000:

The Breath of my Life: the correspondence of Mahatma Gandhi (India) and Bart de Ligt (Holland) on War and Peace; Berlin 2000 (Gandhi-Informations-Zentrum, Berlin; ISBN 3-930093-15-4)

Tolstoy's Legacy for Mankind: A Manifesto for Nonviolence
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/library/tolstoj/tolstoy.htm
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/library/tolstoj/tolstoy2.htm#CONTENTS

2001:

Manifesto against conscription and the military system; Berlin 2001 (Gandhi-Informations-Zentrum , Berlin ; ISBN 3-930093-16-2)

2003:

Review Article: "Non-Violence and its Philosophy" (Dr. Ravindra Kumar) in: Global Peace. An International Journal of Philosophy, Peace, Education, Culture and Civilization", Meerut/India, June 2003, vol. 2, no. 4, p.2 (Review in English language)

2004:

Tolstoy and Gandhi and their Legacy Today. in: Global Peace. An International Journal of Philosophy, Peace, Education, Culture and Civilization, Meerut/India, September 2004, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 20-22
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/tid/2000/2004/bartolf.htm

Editorial, in: Global Peace. An International Journal of Philosophy, Peace, Education, Culture and Civilization, Meerut/India, December 2004, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1f.

2006:

My Pilgrimage. My Vegetarian Journey. in: The Peacable Table. A Vegetarian Journal for Quakers and Other People of Faith, vol. 3, no. 2, February 2006
http://www.vegetarianfriends.net/issue18.html#10

Tolstoy and Gandhi and their Legacy Today. in: Ravindra Kumar (ed.): Mahatma Gandhi in the beginning of 21st Century, New Delhi 2006, pp. 133-137

2007:

Interview with Erik Lau Christensen (Danish Peace Academy) in Copenhagen (Denmark)
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/ordbog/bord/b175.htm

Declaration adopted at the International Conference on "Peace, Nonviolence and Empowerment - Gandhian Philosophy in the 21st Century", 29-30 January 2007, New Delhi, in: Gandhi Prasang (A Journal published by Basant Behari Jairani Shanti Adhyayan Sansthan, Allahabad, India, 2 October 2007, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp.49-52)

and bilingual (German - English):

1986:

Pazifismus in den USA (edited by Prof. Ekkehart Krippendorff, compiled by Christian Bartolf), John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Free University Berlin (Materialien -24-), Berlin 1986 (ISBN 3-88646-015-0)

In Volume 1:

1.) Einleitung - "Pazifismus als Lebensform" (pp. 13-19)

2.) II. Die "Non-Resisters" und Abolitionisten: 1. Die ersten saekularen Friedensorganisationen (pp. 83-86), 2. Die New England Non-Resistance Society (pp. 86-91), 3. William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) (pp. 95f.), 4. Adin Ballou (1803-1890) (pp. 105f.), 5. Die Bewegung der Abolitionisten (pp. 136-144 mit Anmerkungen)

3.) III. Henry David Thoreaus Beitrag zum "revolutionaeren Pazifismus" - Ziviler Ungehorsam als Widerstand gegen die Regierung, und der Weg, der nach 'Walden' fuehrt...: 1. Thoreaus Bildungsweg (pp. 145f.), 2. Transzendentalismus (pp. 168-170), 3. Thoreaus Staatskritik und John Brown (pp. 189-199 mit Anmerkungen)

4.) IV. Die "Wuerde des passiven Widerstandes" (Elihu Burritt) und der Beitrag des philosophischen Anarchismus: 1. Die "League of Universal Brotherhood" (pp. 200-203), 2. Der Beitrag des philosophischen Anarchismus (pp. 215-217), 3. Emma Goldman (pp. 224f., 238f. mit Anmerkungen)

In Volume 2:

5.) VIII. Kriegsdienstverweigerer im Ersten und Zweiten Weltkrieg: 1. Kriegsdienstverweigerer im Ersten Weltkrieg (pp. 384-387), 2. Kriegsdienstverweigerer im Zweiten Weltkrieg (pp. 406-414, 425-428 mit Anmerkungen)

6.) X. Die Bewegung der "Catholic Worker" und der spirituelle Pazifismus Thomas Mertons: 1. Der "Catholic Worker" (pp. 463-470), 2. Dorothy Day (1897-1980) (pp. 471-473), 3. Thomas Merton (1915-1968) - ein Trappistenmoench auf der Suche nach Frieden und Einsamkeit (pp. 479-489 mit Anmerkungen)

7.) XV. Der Freispruch der "Plowshare Eight" - Eine Dokumentation (pp. 672-696)

1998:

Wir wollen die Gewalt nicht. Die Buber-Gandhi-Kontroverse; Berlin 1998 (Gandhi-Informations-Zentrum, Berlin; ISBN 3-930093-11-1)