Douglas Allen

Douglas Allen is Professor and former Chairperson of Philosophy at the University of Maine, U.S.A. He served as President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and is Series Editor of Lexington's Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion. Author and editor of 15 books and 150 book chapters and scholarly journal articles, he has been awarded Fulbright and Smithsonian grants to India. His Gandhi books include Comparative Philosophy and Religion in Times of Terror; The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the Twenty-First Century; and Mahatma Gandhi. Allen has been a peace and justice scholar-activist, starting with the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement; he has been deeply involved in many of the struggles central to Gandhi after 9/11. He had the honor of addressing the General Assembly on the United Nations International Day of Nonviolence, 2 October 2017. He may be reached at [email protected].