Michael Nagler
Among other awards, he received the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award for "Promoting Gandhian Values Outside India" in 2007.
Michael is a student of Sri Eknath Easwaran, Founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation; he has lived at the Center's ashram in Marin County since 1970 and gives presentations around the world for the Center's Eight-Point Program.
Michael Nagler is Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, where he founded the Peace and
Conflict Studies Program and taught the upper-division nonviolence course as well as meditation and other courses for over
twenty years, and and is the founder-President of The Metta Center for Nonviolence Education (www.mettacenter.org). His major
work, The Search for a Nonviolent Future, received a 2002 American Book Award and has been translated into Korean, Arabic,
and other languages; he also wrote Our Spiritual Crisis: Recovering Human Wisdom in a Time of Violence (2005), The Upanishads
(with Sri Eknath Easwaran, 1987), and other books as well as many articles on peace and spirituality. He has spoken for campus,
religious, and other groups on peace and nonviolence for many years, and consulted for the U.S. Institute of Peace and many other
organizations. Michael has worked on nonviolent intervention since the 1970's and served on the Interim Steering Committee of the
Nonviolent Peaceforce.
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Hope or Terror: Gandhi and the Other 9/11,
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