Program

Satish Kumar, a trusted voice on the cutting edge of the environmental movement, is the editor of Resurgence magazine, and program director at Schumacher College in Great Britain. He is the author of Path Without Destination (autobiography), and You are Therefore I Am: A Declaration of Dependence. He became a Jain monk at age 9. Inspired by the writings of Mahatma Gandhi, at the age of 18, Kumar became a campaigner for land reform in support of Gandhi’s vision of renewed India and peaceful world. During this period he worked in Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan Land Reform Movement, which aimed for a peaceful economic revolution.

His next major mission was to spread the message of peaceful change and world peace outside India. Inspired by the example of Bertrand Russell, he undertook in 1962 an 8,000 mile peace pilgrimage, walking from India to America. Traveling with no money, he relied totally on the kindness of friends and strangers he met along the way.

In 1968, Kumar was invited to England by Christian Action to establish the London School of Non-Violence. In 1974, he became the editor of Resurgence, a thoughtful journal of ecology, new economics, and spiritual values. Kumar helped found Schumacher College, established in the memory of the economist E. F. Schumacher, best know for his seminal work Small is Beautiful.

In July 2000, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Education from the University of Plymouth. He was given the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values in 2001.