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'''Satish Kumar''' (born 9 August 1936)<ref name=belief /> is an [[Indian British]] activist and speaker. He has been a [[Jainism|Jain monk]], nuclear disarmament advocate and pacifist<ref name="ocala">{{cite news |title=Indian Pacifist Preaches Guerrilla War on Violence |first=Tom A. |last=Cullen |newspaper=[[Star-Banner]] |publisher=[[Halifax Media Group]] |location=[[Ocala, Florida]], United States |issn=0163-3201 |date=19 May 1969 |page=8 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19690516&id=2T0xAAAAIBAJ&pg=6823,2947808}}</ref>''.'' Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the [[Schumacher College]] international | '''Satish Kumar''' (born 9 August 1936)<ref name=belief /> is an [[Indian British]] activist and speaker. He has been a [[Jainism|Jain monk]], nuclear disarmament advocate and pacifist<ref name="ocala">{{cite news |title=Indian Pacifist Preaches Guerrilla War on Violence |first=Tom A. |last=Cullen |newspaper=[[Star-Banner]] |publisher=[[Halifax Media Group]] |location=[[Ocala, Florida]], United States |issn=0163-3201 |date=19 May 1969 |page=8 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19690516&id=2T0xAAAAIBAJ&pg=6823,2947808}}</ref>''.'' Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the [[Schumacher College]] international center for ecological studies, and is Editor Emeritus of ''[[Resurgence & Ecologist]]'' magazine. His most notable accomplishment is the completion, together with a companion, E. P. Menon, of a [[peace walk]] of over 8,000 miles in 1973–4, from [[New Delhi]] to [[Moscow]], [[Paris]], [[London]], and [[Washington, D.C.]], the capitals of the world's earliest nuclear-armed countries.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/jan/16/activists | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Soul man | first=John | last=Vidal | date=16 January 2008 | access-date=23 May 2010}}</ref> He insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate. | ||
Defending criticism that his goals are unrealistic, he has said, | Defending criticism that his goals are unrealistic, he has said, | ||
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=== ''We Are One'' === | === ''We Are One'' === | ||
Kumar was one of the contributors for writing the book, ''We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples'', released in October 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/4981 |title='We Are One: a celebration of tribal peoples' published this autumn |publisher=Survival International |date=16 October 2009 |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> The book explores the culture of peoples around the world, portraying both its diversity and the threats it faces. It contains a collection of statements from tribal people, photographs, and essays from international authors, campaigners, politicians, philosophers, poets, artists, journalists, anthropologists, environmentalists and photojournalists. The royalties from the sale of this book go to the indigenous rights | Kumar was one of the contributors for writing the book, ''We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples'', released in October 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/4981 |title='We Are One: a celebration of tribal peoples' published this autumn |publisher=Survival International |date=16 October 2009 |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> The book explores the culture of peoples around the world, portraying both its diversity and the threats it faces. It contains a collection of statements from tribal people, photographs, and essays from international authors, campaigners, politicians, philosophers, poets, artists, journalists, anthropologists, environmentalists and photojournalists. The royalties from the sale of this book go to the indigenous rights organization, [[Survival International]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/weareone |title=We Are One |publisher=Survival International |access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref> | ||
== Family life == | == Family life == | ||
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* [https://temenos.thelincolncentre.co.uk/20110913/ The E F Schumacher Centenary Lecture] at the Temenos Academy, 13 September 2011. | * [https://temenos.thelincolncentre.co.uk/20110913/ The E F Schumacher Centenary Lecture] at the Temenos Academy, 13 September 2011. | ||
{{Modern Jain writers}} | {{Modern Jain writers}} | ||
{{Jainism topics}} | {{Jainism topics}} | ||