Ahimsa to End Gun Violence
Course Intro Video
Ahimsa to End Gun Violence
4 weeks self-study plus 4 live online sessions: March 7, March 14, March 21, and March 28 from 9 AM to 10 AM Pacific timeCourse 112
This course is designed to inculcate an awareness and appreciation for the overarching philosophy of Ahimsa emanating from the perspectives of the four dharma traditions that started in India: Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. Next, this course covers ahimsa and peaceful movements around the world that resulted in meaningful, lasting changes. Thereafter, it takes the students into the 200+ history and evolution of gun violence in America and how it has become an epidemic in the 20th century. We have seen time and again that each act of violence is succeeded by prayers, candles, flowers, widespread media coverage, and a resolution to act, though nothing is ever really accomplished by lawmakers. We develop ideas about how Ahimsa and Peaceful Activism can curb this seemingly unstoppable violence, so that mass shootings and gun violence do not become normalized in our society.
Learning Objectives:
1. To impart essential literacy about Ahimsa to demonstrate how it is much broader and deeper than the term nonviolence.
2. To discuss how the philosophy of Ahimsa has been utilized by Mahavir, Mahatma, and MLK to bring societal transformations.
3. To comprehend the enormity of challenges facing primarily America due to the epidemic of gun violence.
4. To understand how the Second Amendment has been exploited by the NRA, politicians, and gun lobbies in America, with utter disregard for human lives.
5. To discuss how diverse tenets of Ahimsa can be utilized to save human lives through activism in the short (1-2 years), intermediate (3-5 years), and long (6-10 years) terms.
6. To learn how you can contribute to curbing gun violence by supporting groups like
Everytown for Gun Safety, Mothers Demand Action, Students Demand Action, Brady’s
Campaign, and Ahimsa-End Gun Violence.
1. To impart essential literacy about Ahimsa to demonstrate how it is much broader and deeper than the term nonviolence.
2. To discuss how the philosophy of Ahimsa has been utilized by Mahavir, Mahatma, and MLK to bring societal transformations.
3. To comprehend the enormity of challenges facing primarily America due to the epidemic of gun violence.
4. To understand how the Second Amendment has been exploited by the NRA, politicians, and gun lobbies in America, with utter disregard for human lives.
5. To discuss how diverse tenets of Ahimsa can be utilized to save human lives through activism in the short (1-2 years), intermediate (3-5 years), and long (6-10 years) terms.
6. To learn how you can contribute to curbing gun violence by supporting groups like
Everytown for Gun Safety, Mothers Demand Action, Students Demand Action, Brady’s
Campaign, and Ahimsa-End Gun Violence.
Learning Area
Social Justice Instructor
Shailendra Palvia
Dr. Shailendra C. Palvia is Professor Emeritus of MIS at Long Island University (LIU) Post. At LIU, he was Director of Management Information Systems program from 1997-2004. He received his Ph.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota and B.S. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India. He has published over 150 referenced articles in several academic journals, conference proceedings and books. As Founding Editor and Editor, he edited the Journal of IT Case and Application Research (JITCAR) during 1999-2007, and again from 2014 to 2020. From 2002 to 2013, he organized and chaired eleven annual international smart sourcing conferences (www.outsourcegloval.org) in USA, India, and South Korea. In 2012 and again in 2026, Dr. Palvia was nominated from LIU Post to receive the Abraham Krasnoff Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award.
He was a Fullbright-Nehru Senior Research Scholar during 2016-2017. He as invited speaker to Germany, India, Italy, Russia, Singapore, and Thailand. Dr. Palvia is an ardent follower of Jainism and has attended several JAINA (Federation of Jain Associations in North America) conventions and annual JAANA (Jain Adhyatmik Academy of North America) workshops organized in different cities in the USA since 1990. He represented Jain religion at the Swami Vivekanand Celebration at the All Religions Harmony program organized by the Vedanta Society in New York City, NY, in the last quarter of 2018. He and his wife Rajkumari donated ¼ million dollars to Georgia College and State University (GCSU), Milledgeville, GA, to establish the S &R Palvia Veetraag Vigyaan Professorship in Jain Studies in January 2023. He has conducted six Ahimsa Internship Youth Camps in Georgia and Virginia.
He was a Fullbright-Nehru Senior Research Scholar during 2016-2017. He as invited speaker to Germany, India, Italy, Russia, Singapore, and Thailand. Dr. Palvia is an ardent follower of Jainism and has attended several JAINA (Federation of Jain Associations in North America) conventions and annual JAANA (Jain Adhyatmik Academy of North America) workshops organized in different cities in the USA since 1990. He represented Jain religion at the Swami Vivekanand Celebration at the All Religions Harmony program organized by the Vedanta Society in New York City, NY, in the last quarter of 2018. He and his wife Rajkumari donated ¼ million dollars to Georgia College and State University (GCSU), Milledgeville, GA, to establish the S &R Palvia Veetraag Vigyaan Professorship in Jain Studies in January 2023. He has conducted six Ahimsa Internship Youth Camps in Georgia and Virginia.
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