A FREE Online Course offered via the WikiNonviolence.org
During the 2025 “Season of Nonviolence”: January 30th to April 5th.
Starts: Jan 30, 2025
Offered By
Michael Sonnleitner, Ph.D.
Political Science & Peace Studies
Fulbright Scholar to India
Author: Soul Force & Social Change
ENROLL (by January 29th): Please send a short email to peacefoundation@posteo.de and we will follow up with next steps…
NOTE: A Syllabus will be provided to you and a link to attend the online sessions.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Provide a brief introduction to “Peace Studies”, “Nonviolence”, & a wide range of “Paths to Peace”.
Carefully examine the life, worldview, and (soul force) nonviolent action (Satyagraha) strategy of
Explore in depth the life, worldview, and (soul force) nonviolent action (Militant Nonviolence)
Promote reflection regarding the legacies of Gandhi & King both relating to their legacies and impacts on others as well as how they may help guide us in our personal lives and actions.
Mohandas K. Gandhi in effecting change in South Africa & India.
Strategy of Martin Luther King Jr. as it sought social change throughout the United States.
COURSE STRUCTURE: There will be 30 online sessions of 80 minutes each, over the ten-week period beginning with the anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination on January 30th, 1948 and the day after King’s assassination on April 4th, 1968 (known as the “Season of Nonviolence”). It is assumed that expectations of course participants will be set at the undergraduate level. Additional reading as well as a Research Paper would be expected of any participant seeking a Graduate School learning experience. Instruction in English.
COURSE TIMING: All online sessions will be held on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. So as to maximize enrolment worldwide, each 80-minute session will begin at 8:30pm (IST: Indian Standard Time). Checking on time zones relative to India, for example, this means that sessions will begin at 4pm in Germany, 3pm in The Gambia, and in the United States (with its 4 time zones) at 10am in New York, 9am in Chicago, 8am in Denver, and at 7am where the instructor resides near the Pacific Ocean in Oregon. After March 8th (due to “daylight savings time”), sessions in the U.S.A. will begin one hour later – with no changes elsewhere in the world.