Composite assembled from two original Library of Congress photographs. Mahatma Gandhi died in 1948; Dr. King was 19. They never met in life. They meet here in the way they actually meet, in the work that joins them.
Dayton, Ohio · Est. 2024
A 501(c)(3) private foundation stewarding the Season for Nonviolence and the joined work of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in the company of their descendants and successors.
The Season for Nonviolence
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Sixty-four days between the assassinations of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Founded in 1998 by Arun Gandhi with the support of Coretta Scott King. We carry it forward each year through public commitments to live without violence in thought, speech, and action.
How to Observe the SeasonHow the work moves
Nonviolence is not the absence of violence. It is a positive force, a way of life that has to be practiced every day, by every person, in the smallest of decisions. Arun Gandhi (1934–2023), grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the Season for Nonviolence
From the Center
Gandhi-King Center for Nonviolence
Rev. Joel Lawrence King Jr., Gregory Foster, and Carolyn Foster sat down with Dr. Oroszi to record their own family histories, have their voices captured, and have their portraits taken, the raw material behind a new set of interactive agents built in their likeness. Visitors to the center can now talk directly with each of them and hear the family's own account in their own words and voices. Meet them at Living Legends →
Dayton International Peace Museum
Anuradha Bhosale of AVANI stopped in Dayton as part of a US fundraising tour, touring several sites in the city including the Dayton International Peace Museum alongside Gandhi-King Center CEO Dr. Terry Oroszi. The two are already making plans for Bhosale to return to Dayton next spring. Read about her work →
What's next
India · led by Tushar Gandhi
A guided cultural immersion exploring the life and impact of Mahatma Gandhi, led by his great-grandson. Registration and itinerary on request.
Dayton International Peace Museum · youth
Workshops in peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and empathy development for students. Hosted in partnership with the Peace Museum.
Living Legends
The history books tell you what happened. Martin's first cousin, Coretta's cousin, and the woman who leads this center today can tell you what it felt like: the dinner-table stories, the cost the history books leave out, the human beings behind the icons. In their own recorded words.
Meet the FamilyA network of inheritance
The Gandhi-King Center board is held together by lived family and lived professional kinship: a great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, a first cousin of Dr. King whose own father grew up in the King household, a cousin of Coretta Scott King, an Ambassador with two decades of work alongside Arun Gandhi, a Patron in the United Kingdom House of Lords, and the colleagues and family members who built the center in Dayton.
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Gandhi-King Center for Nonviolence is a 501(c)(3) private foundation. EIN 99-3986935. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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