Dr. Ashaq Malik

Location: India Levels of Training: (Level I – 2018) & (Level II – 2023) Scholarship(s): The 2018 Stookey Family Scholarship About: Dr. Mohammad Ashaq Malik has been engaged in peace and development works for past 20 years. Between 2003 to 2008, he served for about 30 development organizations including a dozen UN offices/organizations including UNDP […]

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Thinley Yangkyi

Location: IndiaLevel of Training: (Level I – 2018)Contact Information: yangkyithinley@yahoo.com Thinley is a nurse at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in India. She was born in a Tibetan Buddhist family and the very essence of her foundation is nonviolence. Peace and nonviolence has always been central to her life since the day she was born. […]

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Tenzin Tsezin

Location: IndiaLevel of Training: (Level I – 2018)Contact Information: ttsezin@gmail.com Tenzin is a teacher in the Sambhota Tibetan School in India. He has learned that Martin Luther King was an American activist, famously known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using tactics of nonviolence and civil disobedience in the US. His main […]

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Lobsang Nima

Location: India/ USALevel of Training: (Level I – 2018)Contact Information: geshenima@uri.ed Lobsang is a visiting scholar at the Center for Spring Semester, 2018. He was born in Tibet, and started his Buddhist studies at Gaden Dhondup Ling monastery when he was thirteen years old. In 1992, he escaped from Tibet and joined Drepung Loseling monastary […]

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Leban Serto

Location: Manipur, India Level of Training: (Level II – 2019) & (Level III – 2020) About: Leban is the Coordinator for the Centre for Education that explores Gandhian, Kingian, and Peace content and methods. He teaches nonviolence courses at St. Ann’s College in Assam as well as working with students of the Manza Baptist English, […]

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