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About Dr Jagdish Gandhi
A visionary and a far-sighted person, Jagdish Gandhi has been building bridges of peace across the globe for nearly 50 years. For his long-standing contributions to education in peace, the United Nations awarded the prestigious UNESCO Prize for Peace Education in the year 2002 to his unique creation - the City Montessori School, popularly known as CMS, which Gandhi founded in 1959 and has been serving as its Founder-Manager. Among the previous recipients of this prize are Nobel Peace Prize laureates – Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Rigoberto Menchu Tum of Guatemala as well as groups such as the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). 
  
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Conferences Attended and Countries Visited

A widely travelled man, Dr Gandhi has visited a number of countries including USA, UK, USSR, Switzerland, Sweden, Singapore, Thailand, Norway, Mauritius, Malaysia, Lebanon, Japan, Italy, Israel, Iran, Hong Kong, Holland, Germany, France, Egypt, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Myanmar, Belgium and Afghanistan. Among the many international conferences he has attended are the following: Third International Conference on Higher Education, Lancaster University, UK; the Seventh Triennial Conference of CISV at Leeds, England; the First World Conference on Gifted Children, London; International Teachers Conference, Nottingham University, UK; International Teaching Conference at Hong Kong; Cultural Conflict and Asian Community in UK at Leicester University; International Teaching Conference at Paris; Youth For Mankind Conference at Chicago, USA and International Teaching Conference at Haifa, Israel. Dr Gandhi also attended the Anthropological Congress at Chicago, USA and was interviewed for an hour by American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio in California on his multifarious achievements and successes in the field of education.

Some Recent Conferences Attended

* participated in the United Nations General Assembly hearings, UN Headquarters in New York in June 2005.

* was invited by the United Nations to the Millennium Forum held at UN headquarters at New York from 22nd to 26th May, 2000.

* was invited by Peace Edirect and Keighley Foundation to tour UK (17-24 October 2004) and speak to communities in pleaces that have witnessed racial violence in recent years.

* presented keynote address at 5th Convention on Students Quality Control Circles (ICSQCC 2002) at Georgetown, Kentucky, USA from June 11 to 13, 2002

* was invited by the UNESCAP to address a U.N. Conference at Bangkok, Thailand on 20th September 2002

* was invited as Chief Guest in Mauritius at National Convention on Quality Circles in Education held from September 26-30, 2002

* was invited by the Goi Peace Foundation of Japan to address a Peace Symposium as Guest Speaker at Tokyo, Japan on 18th November 2002

* was invited to the International Convention on Quality Control Circles at Taiwan, Taipei.

* participated in International Conference of International School-to-School Experience (ISSE) at San Francisco, USA 1996

 

Travels

Dr Gandhi is widely travelled. He has visited many countries including USA, UK, USSR, Switzerland, Sweden, Singapore, Thailand, Norway, Mauritius, Malaysia, Lebanon, Japan, Italy, Israel, Iran, Hong Kong, Holland, Germany, France, Egypt, Denmark, Nepal, Czechoslovakia, (now the Czech Republic), Myanmar, Belgium and Afghanistan.

He has attended the following international conferences: Millennium Forum (in 2000), United Nations Headquarters (Indian representative), Third International Conference on Higher Education, Lancaster University, UK; the Seventh Triennial Conference of CISV at Leeds, England; the First World Conference on Gifted Children, London; International Teachers Conference, Nottingham University, UK; International Teaching Conference at Hong Kong; Cultural Conflict and Asian Community in UK at Leicester University; International Teaching Conference at Paris; Youth For Mankind Conference at Chicago, USA and International Teaching Conference at Haifa, Israel. Dr Gandhi also attended the Anthropological Congress at Chicago, USA and was interviewed for an hour by American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio in California on his multifarious achievements and successes in the field of education. He was invited to deliver a speech on the importance of education by UNESCAP at Bangkok in Thailand and to address as Chief Guest the National Convention of students Quality Control Circle Convention in Mauritius in September 2002 and in November, 2002, he was invited as one of the main speakers by GOI Peace Foundation in Tokyo, Japan at the Conference on Declaration of All Life on Earth. He was invited by Peace Direct and Keighley Foundation to tour UK (17-24 October 2004) and speak to communities in places that have witnessed racial violence in recent years. He was invited as Chief Guest to the International Convention on Student Quality Control Circles in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 4th to 7th January 2007.

He was invited to the 9th International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) Biennial International Conference at Republic of Panama, from 25 March to 28 March 2008. This conference was organized by IAWJ in partnership with the Association of Magistrates and Judges of Panama.

 

 

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