Revolution and Evolution with Daniel Che

About this episode

Daniel Che discusses his journey as a pacifist and the themes of peace education, counterculture, and military conflict.

Daniel Che is a pacifist who left his home in Kyiv to live in Portugal and build Peaceful World, an online peace education project illuminated by Walt Whitman, Lev Tolstoy, the Woodstock Generation and Jainism. He joins World BEYOND War's Marc Eliot Stein for a wide-ranging conversation about counterculture, anekantavada, karma and ahimsa - and also US/Israel's war with Iran, military sadism, anger, revolution and evolution.

People in this episode

Host: Marc Eliot Stein

Guest: Daniel Che

Topics covered

• peace education
• counterculture
• military conflict
• ahimsa
• revolution
• evolution

Keywords

• peace
• Daniel Che
• Marc Eliot Stein
• counterculture
• ahimsa
• military conflict
• revolution
• evolution

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Peaceful World

Books & works: Walt Whitman, Lev Tolstoy

Places: Kyiv, Portugal, US, Israel, Iran

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