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Ahimsa Foundation ( www.jainsamaj.org )
Mr.
Glenn D. Paige Glenn D. Paige (born 1929 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is professor emeritus of political science, University of Hawai'i, and is founder- president of the nonprofit Center for Global Nonviolence in Honolulu (1994-). He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Princeton (A.B.), Harvard (A.M.), and Northwestern (Ph.D.). He has taught at Seoul National University (1959-61), Princeton (1961-67), and the University of Hawai'i (1967-92). In Hawai'i he introduced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on political leadership and nonviolent political alternatives. A Korean War veteran, he is the author of The Korean Decision: June 24-30, 1950 (1968), The Scientific Study of Political Leadership (1977), To Nonviolent Political Science: From Seasons of Violence (1993), and Nonkilling Global Political Science (2002) which is being translated into 24 languages including Arabic, Chinese, French, Hindi, Russian Spanish, Tamil, and Urdu. The full English text and six other books on nonviolence, including Nonviolence in Hawaii’s Spiritual Traditions (1991), Buddhism and Nonviolent Global Problem-Solving: Ulan Bator Explorations(1991) and Islam and Nonviolence (1993) can be found on the Center for Global Nonviolence website www.globalnonviolence.org. He was introduced to Jainism in 1987 by Acharya Tulsi and Yuvacharya Mahapragya and studied preksha meditation taught by Muni Mahendra Kumar and Swami Dharmananda at the Adhyatma Sadhana Kendra in Mehrauli. He is a recipient of the Dr. G. Ramachandran award for international understanding (1986), the Jai Tulsi Anuvrat award (1995) and the distinguished career award of the Ecological and Transformational Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (2004).
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