IndianaCMEP Activities 2011

Contact:
Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, Inc.
P.O. Box 12005
Fort Wayne, IN  46862

Checkout some of ICMEPs Activities

 Plymouth Church, 501 West Berry Street                                                        6:30 - 9:00pm

Thursday, June 7, 2012
Andrew Spath 
The Syrian Uprising and US Foreign Policy

SATURDAY,  SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
DR. ARUN GANDHI

Born in 1934 in South Africa, Arun is the fifth grandson of Mohandas K. "Mahatma" Gandhi.  Growing up under South Africa's apartheid laws, he was beaten by "white" South Africans for being too black and "black" South Africans for being too white. He learned from his family that justice does not mean revenge, it means transforming the opponent through suffering love. Grandfather taught Arun, "If we know how much passive violence we perpertrate against one another we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world."

In 2011, he has spoken at : Chicago's Children" Museum; Ann Arbor's Women's Justice Center; Mexico's Young President's Organization, Milan's Trade Union Leaders' Meeting; St. Louis' Peace and Justice Center, as well as in Croatia, France, Ireland, Holland, Lithuania, Nicragua, China, Scotland and Japan. He is very popular speaker on college campuses.

Arun worked for 30 years as a journalist for The Times of India. He and his late wife, Sunanda, worked for the economic uplifiting of children, using Gandhi's philosophy of SARVODAYA - "the Welfare of All Citizens." They found homes for almost 130 abandoned children and developed economic programs that successfully changed several thousands of improverished people's lives. In 2008, he launched the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute to promote community building in economically depressed areas of the world through joining Gandhian philosophy and vocational educaton for children and their parents.
 
Arun is the author of several books, including A Patch of White (1949), books on proverty and politics in India; a compilation of M.K. gandhi's Wit & Wisdom; and The Forgotten Woman: The Untold Story of Kastur, the Wife of Mahatma Gandhi. He also edited a book of essays on World Without Violence: Can Gandhi's Vision Become Reality?

Pine Valley Country Club, 10900 Pine Mills Rd, Fort Wayne                            5:30 - 9:00 pm

Andrew will discuss the origins and development of the Syrian Uprising, its political and social context within the Arab Spring, and the United States response, the ongoing United Nations peace plan, and potential futures for the region.

Andrew Spath is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science & Middle East Studies at Rutgers University, and a 2012-13 Fulbright and David L. Boren Graduate Fellow in Amman, Jordan, researching the political and social dynamics of regime change in the Middle East. Andrew is a member of Plymouth Church and on the board of ICMEP.

This page last modified on Wednesday, May 16, 2012