{"id":209280,"date":"2022-10-03T18:50:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=209280"},"modified":"2022-10-03T18:50:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:20:36","slug":"mahatma-gandhi-the-peacemaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mahatma-gandhi-the-peacemaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahatma Gandhi, the peacemaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Mahatma Gandhi, the peacemaker\u201d <\/strong>published in\u00a0The Hindu<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a03rd<\/sup> October 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance:\u00a0<\/strong>Gandhi\u2019s views on peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n

News: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine represents the biggest threat to peace in the world since the end of the Cold War. Many people believe that humanity will never attain peace.<\/p>\n

However, Gandhi considered the problem of peace as an ethical instead of political issue.<\/p>\n

The letter published in Harijan on December 9, 1939 explains Gandhi\u2019s psychology as a moral leader at the time of war.<\/p>\n

What was Gandhi\u2019s strategy for peace?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The letter shows that he was a man of peace who could struggle for nonviolence and dialogue among nations even during the hard times.<\/p>\n

Therefore, Gandhi was a consistent thinker on peace and it would be wrong to say that there were gradual changes in his opinions on war and peace.<\/p>\n

Gandhi always had a peace strategy even when he wrote on violence over cowardice.<\/p>\n

Gandhi wrote: \u201cI do believe that where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence\u2026But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment\u2026 But\u2026 forgiveness only when there is the power to punish\u2026<\/p>\n

Gandhi never dissociated nonviolence from violence and his position is understood when he said that an action may wear the appearance of violence and yet be absolutely nonviolent.<\/p>\n

However, there are critics about Gandhi\u2019s non-violence strategies<\/strong>. Hannah Arendt has said that if Gandhi\u2019s non-violence has met with a different enemy (Stalin\u2019s Russia, Hitler\u2019s Germany) other than British, the outcome would have been worse.<\/p>\n

Gandhi believed that in the absence of a concrete ethical foundation<\/strong>, the politics could not function democratically and non-violently. He further believed that the essential task of the politics was to bring moral progress.<\/p>\n

He believed that the strategy of peacemaking leads to moral rightfulness of non-violence<\/strong> whereas Hitler believed in eliminating morality from politics.<\/p>\n

That is why Gandhi remains an original thinker in the matter of peace building <\/strong>and also a successful peace builder.<\/p>\n

He believed that nonviolence is a truth that follows from the unity and interdependence of humanity and life<\/strong>. He said that violence damages and weaken all forms of life while nonviolence uplifts all.<\/p>\n

Gandhi believed that awareness is required for a critical self-examination and a move from egocentricity towards a \u2018shared humanity\u2019.<\/p>\n

Therefore, in an age of increasing \u2018globalisation of selfishness\u2019, there is an urgent need to read and practise the Gandhian social and political philosophy in order re-evaluate the concept of peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cMahatma Gandhi, the peacemaker\u201d published in\u00a0The Hindu\u00a0on\u00a03rd October 2022. Syllabus: GS 1 Relevance:\u00a0Gandhi\u2019s views on peace. News: \u00a0Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine represents the biggest threat to peace in the world since the end of the Cold War. Many people believe that humanity will never attain peace. However, Gandhi… Continue reading Mahatma Gandhi, the peacemaker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263,10498],"class_list":["post-209280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":6,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698377005},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}