page_title: Ravindra Kumar (political scientist)
section_title: Memberships
hierarchical_section_title: Ravindra Kumar (political scientist) / Memberships
caption_attribution_description: receiving sardar patel award
context_page_description: Ravindra Kumar is a Political Scientist, Peace Educator, an Indologist, a Humanist, Cultural Anthropologist, Gandhian Thinker, and a Former Vice-Chancellor of CCS University, Meerut. Currently he is an Ombudsman of Swami Vivekananda Subharati University, Meerut and the editor-in-chief of Global Peace International Journal. He has written more than one hundred books and four hundred articles on greatest personalities of the Indian sub-continent, especially Gautama Buddha, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and on various social, political, educational, cultural and academic issues to his credit.
context_section_description: Member, Executive Council, Meerut University, Meerut, India, between 1993 and 1994
  Member, Executive Council, MD University, Rohtak, India, between 1994 and 1996
  Vice-Chancellor, CCS University, India, 1994
  Member, Senate, Gandhigram Rural Institute Deemed University, Tamil Nadu, India, between 1994 and 1997
  Life Fellow, (United Writers’ Association), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India since 1997
  Consultant to UNUP, CR., CA. for Gandhian Studies 2000
  Founder and Secretary General, World Peace Movement Trust since 2001
  Member, Gandhi-Information-Zentrum, Berlin, Germany since 2001
  Life Member, International Film & Television Research Centre, Noida, India since 2006
  Honorary Advisor, Peace Education Academy of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal since 2006
  Member, Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, London, UK since 2006
  Honorary Advisor, Institute For Inspiration & Self Development, Kolkata, India since 2006
  Member, Advisory Board, Media For Freedom, USA since 2007
  Member, Indian Language Newspapers Association (ILNA), India since 2009
  Member, Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association, since 2009
  Member, Action Asia, since 2009
  Patron, Stallion College for Engineering and Technology, Chhutmalpur, Saharanpur, India since 2010
  Member, Gandhi Serve Foundation, Germany since 2010
  Member, National Executive, Indian Language Newspapers Association (ILNA), India, between  2010 and 2012
  Patron, Ruminations –a bi-annual international journal for analysis and research in humanities and social sciences ISSN 2229-6751, India since 2010
  Member, Executive Council, Uttarakhand Sanskrit University, Haridwar (Uttarakhand), India, between 2011 and 2013
  Patron, The EDUQUEST –a bi-annually international-refereed journal in Education ISSN 2277-3614, JKC, Purulia, West Bengal, India since 2012
  Member, Advisory Board to Techno LEARN –a bi-annually international journal of educational technology ISSN 2231-4105, New Delhi, India since 2012
  Patron, LM Institute of Technology and Management, Lucknow, India since 2012
  Member Academic Council and the Coordinator for international affairs, Shridhar University (Rajasthan), India, between 2012 and 2017
  Founder Director, Institute of Indology and Oriental Studies,  Shridhar University (Rajasthan), India since 2012
  Coordinator for international relations for the universities and institutions of higher studies and research under the Baise-Chumphon and Krabi Sister’s Cities Projects, between 2012 and 2017
  The Ombudsman, Swami Vivekananda Subharati University, Meerut (UP), India and 17 other institutions along, since 2013
  Chairman of the Committee for Classification of Affiliated Colleges with the Uttrakhand Sanskrit University, Haridwar, 2013
  Patron, International Centre of Nonviolence (ICON), Sydney, Australia since 2013
  Patron, The Ashram Gandhi Puri, Bali, Indonesia since 2014
  Patron, Adi Shankara Vedanta Pratishthanam, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India since 2015
  Advisor/Council Head and Convener, Gandhi Peace Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal since 2018
  Member Advisory Board of Acid Survivors & Women Welfare Foundation –ASWWF, India since 2019
caption: Receiving Sardar Patel National Award in 2006 from Lt. General S.K. Sinha, Governor of J&K
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