Ravindra Kumar (political scientist)

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Ravindra Kumar
political scientist
SpouseKamlesh (1981–2020)
Website
ravindrakumar.org

Ravindra Kumar (born 1959) is a

CCS University, Meerut (India).[1]

He has worked an Ombudsman of Swami Vivekananda Subharati University, Meerut and the editor-in-chief of Global Peace International Journal. He has written more than one hundred books and four hundred articles on greatest personalities of the Indian sub-continent, especially

Gautama Buddha, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and on various social, political, educational, cultural and academic issues to his credit.[2]

Early life and education

Born in 1959 at Kakrauli village of

Gandhian
Studies, Ph. D. and D. Lit.

Career

A well-known

CCS University Meerut, India, Kumar has been associated with several national and international academic, cultural, educational, peace and social bodies/institutions/organizations. As an International Professor and a Cultural Ambassador of India, he has delivered more than four hundred lectures at various institutions and universities of the world on subjects related to Asian values, civilization, culture, Gandhian philosophy, Indology
, international co-operation and understanding, leadership, way of life, women's empowerment, world peace, youth affairs etc.

As a Peace Worker, Kumar started Peace Review – an international journal of peace studies in 1998 and worked as its Editor-in-Chief. In 2001 he has started Global Peace –another international journal of philosophy, peace, education, culture and civilization. Besides, he has inspired hundred and thousands of people all over the world for their commitment towards non-violence by signing pledges.

Between 1993 and 2015 Ravindra Kumar has organised a number of seminars, symposiums and workshops at national and international level on subjects related to value education, religion and politics, non-violence and democracy, morality and ethics in public life, human values and rights, education, peace and development, Gandhian philosophy.

Books

Dr. Ravindra Kumar Receiving Padma Shri from The President Dr. K R Narayanan in 2001
  • Religion and Word Peace (1993-2006)
  • Morality and Ethics in Public Life (1999)
  • Towards Peace, two-parts (2001-7)
  • Theory and Practice of Gandhian Non-Violence (2002-7)
  • Non-Violence and Its Philosophy (2003)
  • Five Thousand Years of Indian Culture (2003)
  • Fundamentals of Civilization (2006)
  • Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: Life, Works and Views (2005–12)
  • Towards Buddha (2007), Gandhian Thought: New World, New Dimensions (2008)
  • India and Mahatma Gandhi (2009–10)
  • Peace Philosophy in Action (2010)
  • Resolving Conflicts: The Gandhian Way (2011)
  • Education, Peace and Development (2012)
  • Gandhi in Current Perspective (2012)
  • The Indian Way (2013)
  • The Gandhian Way: A Universal Method of Resolving Conflicts (2013)
  • Non-Violence and Peace Education, two-parts (2013)
  • Facets of Education in Global Perspective (2013-5)
  • Unveiling the Universality of Indology and Indian Philosophy (2015)
  • Value and Peace Education (2016)
  • Essays on Socio-Cultural Sensitization, Empowerment and Human Rights (2016)
  • Sanatana Dharma –The Vedic-Hindu Jeevan Marg (2016)
  • Gandhi Marg (2016)
  • Gandhi’s Vision of the World in the Light of Indian Philosophy (2018)
  • Greatest Indians –a multi-volume series (2016-8).  

Positions

Teacher, Department of Political Science, SD College, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh (1982-3), Research Representative/Senior Research Officer, Sardar Patel National Memorial, Ahmedabad/Sardar Patel Works Committee, New Delhi (1985–90), Member Secretary and Chief Editor of Vithalbhai Patel Works Committee (1990–92), Vice Chancellor, CCS University, Meerut, India (1994), Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus, Thailand (1996-2001), Visiting Professor/Scholar at more than one hundred Universities/Institutions of higher studies and research around the world including Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines), Universities of Thammasat, Silpakorn, Mahidol, Kasetsart and Chulalongkorn (Thailand), Universities of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia Science, Penang (Malaysia), Universities of Mandalay and Yangon (Myanmar), Udayana University, Bali (Indonesia), Institute Kern, Leiden University (The Netherlands), Universities of Aalborg, Aarhus, NIAS Copenhagen and Odense (Denmark), St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Jaume-I University, Castellon (Spain), University of Torino (Italy), University of Vienna (Austria), North Florida University, Jacksonville, Florida (USA), Universities of Autonomic Latin-American, Antioquia, EAFIT, Pontificia Bolivariana and Externado de Colombia (Columbia), Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo –the UEES, Guayaquil (Ecuador, South America), University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban (South Africa)(1995-2019), Ombudsman, Swami Vivekananda Subharati University, Meerut, India (since 2013), Patron/Chairman, Director and Coordinator for international relations of many universities and institutions of higher studies and research in India and other countries of Asia.

Speaking at Mahidol University, Thailand in 2008

Memberships

Receiving Sardar Patel National Award in 2006 from Lt. General S.K. Sinha, Governor of J&K
  • Member, Executive Council,
    Meerut University
    , Meerut, India, between 1993 and 1994
  • Member, Executive Council, MD University, Rohtak, India, between 1994 and 1996
  • CCS University
    , India, 1994
With Former Prime Minister of India Morarji Desai in 1984

Awards

  • 1993: Meerut Ratna
  • 1998: Nirala Smriti Samman
  • 2001: Padma Shri for Literature and Education[4]
  • 2003: Shan-I-Kaum
  • 2004: Shantidoot
  • 2005: Ambassador for Peace
  • 2006: Sardar Patel National Award
  • 2008: Master of Wisdom
  • 2010: Peace Messenger
  • 2010: Peace Envoy
  • 2012: Soham Smarkam Award of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
  • 2012: The Buddha Ratna
  • 2013: Uttar Pradesh Ratna
  • 2013: D. LIT. (Honoris Causa)
  • 2013: Samaj Ratna
  • 2014: The Gandhi Ratna
  • 2014: Shiksha Ratna
  • 2014: Gandhi Shiksha Ratna
  • 2015: Sardar Patel Ratna
  • 2015: SREIT Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2016: Vidyavachaspati
  • 2017: Shivkumar Shastri Smriti Samman along with Hindi Bhasha Bhushan
  • 2017: Madyanirodhan Samman –the highest honour of Kerala Hindi Sahitya Academy
  • 2018: Gandhi Peace Honour
  • 2018: Bharat Gaurav * 2020: Buddhist Humanitarian Award. * 2020: Gandhi Nobel Peace Award. * 2021: Country's Pride

References

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  2. ^ Clumnist:Ravindra Kumar www.upiasia.com.
  3. ^ http://www.ilna.in [bare URL]
  4. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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