What is Progress? Gandhian Nuns are Teaching Progress Through Intentional Community
Channel: PeaceVoiceTV
Date: 2012-12-15

http://www.warpreventioninitiative.org/ What is progress? Swasti Bhattacharyya, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy and religion at Buena Vista University, Iowa, and applied ethics practitioner, talks about her field work in India, studying Gandhian nuns - followers of Vinoba Bhave - and their intentional community.  Bhattacharyya, an applied ethicist, explains what she learned from living with and studying this intentional community of women, and how the Gandhian nuns have a lot to teach us about so-called progress.

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This video interview was conducted at the Peace and Justice Studies Association conference of 2012 at Tufts University in Boston, MA.

Interviewer: Tom Hastings
Editor: Erin Niemela