![]() ![]() 2 Nor does it imply that one should fight every fight that comes one’s way. To Gandhi, inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable. Gandhi’s advice was that cowardice and passive resistance should not keep anyone from fighting for a genuine cause. To him, some may choose to fight others may choose to avoid all sort of confrontation for the sake of peace but such peace is often shallow and may lead to depression in some individual cases. Nor did he regard it as something bad or negative. Gandhi was of the firm view that truth can emerge only in the process of fighting. To Gandhi, every fight was a fight among different viewpoints, each carrying some aspect or partial truth. He preferred engagement to ‘cowardice’ or ‘remaining inactive’ in case there were conflicts to be resolved.’ 1 He believed that fighting had its own benefits as it helped in arriving at various aspects of truth. ![]() Gandhi chose to fight not because he approved violence but because he disliked being a pacifist. Whereas the term fighting presupposes use of force, violence and/or coercion, the term ‘peace’ presumes negation of them. The very term ‘Fighting’ for ‘peace’ seem contradictory and antagonistic. For this to happen, individuals and civil societies would have to play a proactive role. Without inner peace and growth of spirituality at the individual level, there can’t be any peace and tranquility at the global level. Since all plans of wars begin in the human mind, it becomes absolutely necessary to make it the abode of peace. Gandhi, one of the apostles of peace, not only propagated peace at the world level but also understood fully. Rather, it implies justice, equity and ‘freedom from fear’. Peace does not imply simply ‘absence of war’. Peace, Nonviolence and Conflict Resolution.
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