The Gandhi-Mandela-Freire (GMF) Fellowship Programme

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In 2022, LES was reimagined as a multiversity.  A multiversity platform was created under it. As an important part of the platform, the Gandhi-Mandela-Freire (GMF) Fellowship Programme was developed. It attempts to bring the wisdom of the three continents - Asia, Africa and Latin America -  together through building on three inter-connected life-enhancing pedagogies -- pedagogy of the oppressed, pedagogy of non-violence and pedagogy of reconciliation. The programme aims to develop an unalloyed focus on initiating deep 'self and social transformation' among the younger generation. Importantly, it is a part of youth engagement. The foundation of the programme is animated by the passion to nurture "being compassionate".

The programme frames the following:

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• aims to form a vibrant self-sustaining global community ('the GMF Fellows Community') through local hubs,

• shapes an inclusive Common Good through dialogicality,

• encourages a  praxis based on "being compassionate".

• nurtures deep eco-social immersion,

• nudges for critical self-questioning, hacking, rebooting and reclaiming through decolonisation, deschooling and identifying hegemonic narratives

• promotes everyday forms of resistance and action

• builds orientation to actively involve and participate in diverse eco-social domains going beyond self-serving issue-based social movements, politics or specialisation,

• interrogates critically and compassionately the Self-Other alienation and conflicts

• focuses on transdisciplinarity mode of being, trans-formative education/learning pathways and critical (and compassionate) civic engagement

• initiates, structures or strengthens eco-peace, reconciliation, eco-socio-spiritual healing, engaged spirituality, sustainability, regeneration, social communication, and deep dialogue to actively foster eco-socio justice and public compassion as foundation for all-round co-existence, co-creation and co-evolution, 

• urges the creation of a journal, question bank, narratives bank, maps and personal glossaries

• endeavours to constitute a 'new language' and to introduce new narratives/stories for Being self and community.