11-21-2005

Stanford’s Non-Violence Lecture Series

Considering how much time is spent teaching students about the history of war, it is sad how little time is spent teaching peace. I’m always on the lookout for resources to help learn about the philosophy and practice of non-violence.

I ran across Stanford on iTunes online recently. In browsing the offerings, I found a great series of lectures hosted by the university’s Aurora Forum entitled “Waging Peace: Practical Approaches to a Violent World.” If you have iTunes installed, you can download the lectures for free. If not, the lectures are also available in streaming real audio via Bill Warters’ Campus-adr blog. I’m only a little over half-way through listening to them all, but the lecture by Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi, was especially interesting and thought provoking.

On a related note, a series of lectures by the Dalai Lama is also available on the Stanford section of iTunes, as well as on the Stanford website. This makes me wonder what other universities make their guest lectures available online. I saw Alex Halley, Kurt Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams back when I was a student at the University of Texas at Austin and recently saw Madeleine Albright at St. Edward’s University. It would be nice to find more lectures like those available online.

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