Modern civilization has rationalized and institutionalized various forms of physical, material, mental and spiritual violence. These forms in the areas of our private and corporate economic, political, cultural and spiritual life have acquired a language of "peace, progress and development". Attracted by its rational and material glitter, people falls prey to it like a moth to a light. Mahatma Gandhi has laid bare these most soul-debasing forms of violence, which in-turn create an empire based on exploitation, domination and violence.

Lectures and discourses on Hind Swaraj are conducted in order to

The text of Hind Swaraj is the only text in modern times which provides a comprehensive understanding of various forms of violence and their inter-relationship. It guides us into the ways for humanity's deliverance from all forms of violence. It gives a vision and a 'weapon' for freedom from violence. Hind Swaraj provides a totally unorthodox, fresh vision on modern civilization, prepares motivation for dealing with violence and taking to nonviolence. It sets reader's mind and heart afire. It lights the fire which enlightens our vision, motivation and stimulates positive action. As more and more one learns about forms of violence and of nonviolence; mediates on their meaning as defined in an outstandingly unorthodox way in Hind Swaraj, more and more our actions become informed by the true spirit of nonviolence.

Education in nonviolence therefore precedes training in the methods of nonviolence. Thus our programmes mainly include the following:

- Creating awareness about forms of violence;
- Creating awareness about the ways in which these various forms oppress

- Creating awareness about nonviolence as the fundamental Nature given attribute of human being;
- Learn to identify forms and working of nonviolence in various areas of our life; i.e. economic, political, social, cultural, moral and spiritual.
- Education in the vision, philosophy and order known as Swaraj, which is nonviolence organized and institutionalized in economic, political, cultural, moral and spiritual spheres of life.
- We learn and identify organized and institutionalized nonviolence in all cultures world over. Some have still retained its language and idiom, some are losing slowly even the ways of identifying age old forms of nonviolence under the spell of the new language of 'peace, progress and development'.

Hind Swaraj Study Camps help develop a vision and language to identify both, i.e. forms of violence, and similarly the forms of nonviolence. Study camps and Swaraj-Dialogue lay bare the dimensions of our struggle, provided we have quest for a moral order. It also arouses such quest.

Training in nonviolence primarily includes training in the methods of conflict resolution, for the true test of nonviolence lies in its ability to resolve differences and conflicts.

Once the process of education is brought up to a level through the study of Hind Swaraj, the next question is of training in the methods of nonviolence. Hind Swaraj study camps prepares one to take up issues of justice, peace, democracy and violence. Once one is motivated to take up issues of conflict and violence, one is confronted with the question of means and methods of resolving them. This, then is the area of application of nonviolence in situations of conflict. We may call it applied nonviolence or strategic methods and use of nonviolence.

Swarajpeeth is evolving a model of education and training in nonviolence based on the above explanation.

Swarajpeeth has enrolled more than 250 men and women as Shanti Sainik trainee within an initial stage of Swaraj Samwad.

The training would include practical involvement in peace building initiatives in and around the vicinity of Shanti Sainiks.

Training has three goals. Training aims at cultivating character of a Shanti Sainik such that he/she can uphold truth when untruth reigns; fearlessness in the environment of fear; and, non-partisanship in the environment of partisanship and social, cultural and political divide.

Those who have enrolled themselves as Shanti Sainiks will be trained to deal with issues within and around their locality in the first stage. They would provide leadership in their own community for taking up issues of conflict and violence; create public opinion for nonviolent ways of resolution; and mobilize nonviolent methods and resources for conflict resolution. Shanti Sainiks will be trained to deal with situations of violence, conflict and tensions locally, regionally and nationally.

Training thus contains of methods of inquiry into conflict situation, interviewing and talking to parties involved in conflict, writing reports and creating conditions for a dialogue on the basis of nonviolent fact finding missions. They are trained into developing nonpartisan view and vision on situation/incidents of violence/conflicts.

Training also includes analysis of local, regional and national conflicts and the ways of conventional methods of conflict management and their short term and long term implications and outcomes as compared to the possible outcome of resolution through nonviolent methods.

Creating an environment for dispelling fear include accompanying those under the spell of fear, rescuing and providing protection to the endangered.

Above all, most important part of training is in the methods of Satyagraha as an ultimate means of peace building within the community. Thus education and training in the philosophy and methods of Satyagraha, which includes methods of identifying, speaking up and conveying truth in a manner conducive to the spirit of nonviolence and of communal, social and national integration.

As a result of education in nonviolence conducted through Hind Swaraj Dialogue our groups in Muradabad and Biharigarh undertook inter-community dialogue and successfully resolve a long standing conflict, which had the potentials of serious conflagration.

Swarajpeeth undertakes training of Shanti Sainiks in core nonviolent proficiencies.

About two hundred and fifty have come forward to register themselves for professional training in core non-nonviolent methods and proficiencies. They have passed through a process of participation in public dialogue on non-violence; group consultations on violence and need for Shanti Sena; one day Hind Swaraj exposure on culture of non-violence; and finally, all this culminating in to a four-day study camp on Gandhiji's root text Hind Swaraj. Some from among these, who could participate in the program on 9/11, took pledge of Shanti Sainik on 11 September 2005.