Dr. Christian Bartolf

Publications

Selected Books [English language]

(2001) Manifesto against conscription and the military system - read

(2000) The Breath of my Life. The Correspondence of Mahatma Gandhi (India) and Bart de Ligt (Holland) on War and Peace - read

(1998) Wir wollen die Gewalt nicht. Die Buber-Gandhi-Kontroverse. [with English language text documents] - read

(1997) Letter to a Hindoo - Taraknath Das, Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi - read

(1997) Hermann Kallenbach - Mahatma Gandhi's friend in South Africa [co-author and co-editor: Isa Sarid] - read

(1994) Tolstoy and Gandhi (Non-Violent Resistance) - read

(1986) Pazifismus in den USA (Pacifism in the USA (ed. Ekkehart Krippendorff), Berlin 1986 (John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University Berlin, "Materialien 24") - compilation, redaction and author of following articles with documents as facsimile - read volume 1 - read volume 2

Editor [English language]

Desiderius Erasmus: "War is sweet to those who have no experience of it ..." - Protest against Violence and War (= Publication series: Exhibitions on the History of Nonviolent Resistance, No. 1, Editors: Christian Bartolf, Dominique Miething). Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, 2022.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer: "My Address to the People" - Commitment against Nuclear War (= Schriftenreihe: Ausstellungsführer der Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin, Nr. 61, Herausgeber:innen des Bandes: Christian Bartolf, Marion Gericke, Dominique Miething). Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Gandhi-Informations-Zentrum, 2020.

Selected Articles and Essays [English language]

(2021) Paradise of Conscience: Thoreau's "Lakes of Light", Tolstoy's "Kingdom of God" and Gandhi's "Ramrajya". In: Gandhi Marg. Quarterly Journal of the Gandhi Peace Foundation. New Delhi, April to June 2021, Volume 43, Number 1, pp. 11-24. - lesen

(2021) Thoreau - Tolstoy - Gandhi: The Origin of Satyagraha. [co-authors: Dominique Miething and Vishnu Varatharajan] In: Roots, Routes and a New Awakening. Beyond One and Many and Alternative Planetary Futures, ed. by Ananta Kumar Giri. Singapore: Springer Nature - Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 133-148. - read

(2019) Mahatma Gandhi's message for us in the 21st Century. [co-author: Dominique Miething] Published by the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, India. In: Social Action. A Quarterly Review of Social Trends (October-December 2019), pp. 398-405, New Delhi, India) - read

(2019) Gandhi's vision for the future. Published by U.V Jose, Director, Information & Public Relations Department on behalf of Government of Kerala. In: Kerala Calling (Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 24-25, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, October 2019 - read (publication) - read (original)

(2019) Mahatma Gandhi's ideas for the world. Satyagraha, sarvodaya are core concepts of Gandhi's political philosophy. [co-author: Dominique Miething] Published by THE WEEK, Kochi, Kerala, India, June 30, 2019 - read (publication) - read (original)

(2019) Gustav Landauer and the Revolutionary Principle of Non-violent Non-cooperation. [co-author: Dominique Miething] In: Muldoon, James / Keets, Gard (eds.): The German Revolution and Political Theory. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 215-235 - read

(2019) Music, Cosmopolitanism and Transformative Harmony. In: Giri, Ananta Kumar (ed.): Transformative Harmony. New Delhi: Studera Press, 2019, pp. 763-774 - read

(2018) Tolstoy and Practical Spirituality. In: Giri, Ananta Kumar (ed.): Practical Spirituality and Human Development. Transformations in Religions and Societies. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 361-369 - read

(2018) Tolstoy and Cosmopolitanism. In: Giri, Ananta Kumar (ed.): Beyond Cosmopolitanism. Towards Planetary Transformations. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 121-129 - read

(2017) Exhibitions on Nonviolent Resistance: A New Medium for Peace Education. [co-author: Dominique Miething] In: Cicovacki, Predrag / Hess, Kandy (eds.): Nonviolence As a Way of Life (Two Volumes). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2017, Volume II, pp. 514-532 - read

(2015) Tolstoy and Gandhi and their Legacy today. In: Mahatma Gandhi in the Beginning of Twenty-First Century (ed. Dr. Ravindra Kumar), New Delhi (Gyan Publishing House) 2015 (2006), pp. 133-137 - read

(2014) Tolstoy and Practical Spirituality. In: Gandhi Marg. Quarterly Journal of the Gandhi Peace Foundation. New Delhi, July to December 2014, Volume 36, Numbers 2 & 3, pp. 431-438 - read

(2009) Transforming Power and Freedom: From Voluntary Servitude to Non-violent Resistance. In: Giri, Ananta Kumar (ed.): The Modern Prince and The Modern Sage. Transforming Power and Freedom, New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2009, S. 464-470 - read

(2007) Three Days in India / Declaration adopted at the International Conference on "Peace, Nonviolence and Empowerment - Gandhian Philosophy in the 21st Century", 29-30 January, 2007, Ne Delhi. In: Gandhi Prasang. A Journal published by Basant Behari Jairani Shanti Adhyayan Sansthan (Allahabad, India), Vol. X, No. 1, October 2, 2007, pp. 47-52 - read

(1999) Manifesto of Non-Violence: Tolstoy, Gandhi & Responsibility of Intellectuals. In: The International Journal of Humanities and Peace (IJHP), Flagstaff (Arizona, USA) 1999, Vol. 15, No. 1, S. 76-79 - read

(1997) Tolstoy and Gandhi. In: Gandhi and the Contemporary World. Essays to mark the 125th Anniversary of His Birth (ed. by Antony Copley and George Paxton), Chennai/India: Indo-British Historical Society, 1997, pp. 196-204 - read

Selected Articles and Essays [Italian language]

(2018) Poesia, musica e canto per l'educazione alla pace. Da Berlino la proposta di un percorso significativo, in: Quaderni Satyagraha perseverare nella verita, numero 32: Il Centro Internazionale per la Nonviolenza Mahatma Gandhi di Monteleone di Puglia. Pisa: Centro Gandhi Edizioni (Dir. Rocco Altieri), 2018, pp. 215-217 - read

(2009) Un aiuto nonviolento dall'Ovest, in: Quaderni Satyagraha la forza della verita, numero 15: Le Rose Sbocciano In Autunno. La rivoluzione nonviolenta dell'89 (a cura di Rocco Altieri, Dieter Kinkelbur, Francesco Pistolato). Pisa: Gandhi Edizioni (Dir. Rocco Altieri), 2009, pp. 71-74 - read

Net Articles and Essays [English language]

(2022) The Doukhobors. In: AHIMSA. Nonviolence. Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India: International Gandhian Initiative for Nonviolence and Peace. c/o Centre for Experiencing Socio Cultural Interaction. (Editors: Prof. Ananta Kumar Giri, Dr. Jill Carr-Harris). Volume XV, Issue 2, May-Jul 2022, pp. 27-34 - read (publication)

(2019) Gandhi's vision for the future (net publication October 1, 2019, by Kerala Calling (October 2019, Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 24-25, published by U.V Jose, Director, Information & Public Relations Department on behalf of Government of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India) - read (publication) - read (original)

(2019) Mahatma Gandhi's ideas for the world. Satyagraha, sarvodaya are core concepts of Gandhi's political philosophy. [co-author: Dominique Miething] (net publication June 22, 2019, by THE WEEK, Kochi, Kerala, India, June 28, 2019) - read (publication) - read (original)

(2014) Tolstoy and Practical Spirituality (net publication by Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal - Gandhi Book Centre, Mumbai, and Gandhi Research Foundation, Jalgaon, India) - read

(2013) Gandhi and War: The Mahatma Gandhi / Bart de Ligt Correspondence (net publication by the Satyagraha Foundation for Nonviolent Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands) - read

(2006) My Pilgrimage. My Vegetarian Journey (net publication by The Peacable Table. A Vegetarian Journal for Quakers and Other People of Faith, vol. 3, no. 2, February 2006) - read

(2004) Tolstoy and Gandhi and their Legacy today (net publication by The Danish Peace Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark) - read

(2000) Tolstoy's Legacy for Mankind: A Manifesto for Nonviolence (net publication by The Danish Peace Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark) - Part 1: read - Part 2: read

(1997) Tolstoy and Gandhi (net publication by the Gandhi Foundation, London, England, in: Gandhi and the Contemporary World. Essays to mark the 125th Anniversary of His Birth (ed. by Antony Copley and George Paxton), Chennai/India (Indo-British Historical Society), India 1997, pp. 196-204 - read

Interviews [English language]

(2014) Radio Lithuania (Vilnius, Litauen), Interviewer: Audra Cepkauskaite, 3. Mai 2014 - listen

(2009) All India Radio (Hyderabad, Indien), Interviewer: Sumanaspati Reddy, 1. Oktober 2009 - listen

(2007) The Danish Peace Academy (Copenhagen, Denmark), Interviewer: Erik Lau Christensen, 24. September 2007, "Leo Tolstoy's message today" - listen

(2003) WRPI: "On The Barricades" (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York), Interviewer: Dr. Steve Breyman, 24. Dezember 2003 - read


© Dr. Christian Bartolf - date: 19 June 2023