Gandhi-Mandela-Freire Fellowship Programme
Initiating Self and Eco-Socio-Spiritual Transformation.
The Grounding of Peace, Reconciliation, Civic Engagement, Sustainability, Social Communication, Creative Regeneration and Engaged Spirituality in Compassion . Fostering Dialogical and Inclusive Community, Common Good and Eco-Socio-Spiritual Futures in Public and Private Spaces.
Jointly initiated by the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, India and the Loyola Institute of Peace and International Relations, Kochi, India. The Indian Social Institute holds a Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The fellowship has been further developed, nurtured and now based at the LES Multiversity, Loyola Extension Services, a registered charity as well as the social lab and incubation centre of Loyola College of Social Sciences (LCSS Autonomous), Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), India. A (growing) number of like-minded institutions have offered moral support for this effort. (Note: This website belongs to the LESMultiversity , Loyola Extension Services/LES Multiversity, Loyola College of Social Sciences (A), Thiruvananthapuram, India.)
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Caring and Dialogical Democracy Initiative (DDI)
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This initiative is for young people between the ages of 20 and 35 and who belong to poor communities in Kerala. They will be trained as 'change agents'. The programme will be in the local language, Malayalam. English will be minimally used. The GMF learning methodologies will inform the DDI pedagogy. The 3-year effort will involve 5 sessions, reaching out to 105 young people who will constitute and nurture a collective called the 'TCJ Collective'. This will be a collective of journo-social workers.
An independent, comprehensive DDI site is being designed. This will be launched in mid- 2025 with the coming of the first batch of fellows.