Operation Gandhi

☮ Historisk britisk fredsgruppe grundlagt i 1952 af medlemmer af Peace Pledge Union senere benævnt Non-violent Resistance Group og PPU's Non-violence Commission. Baggrunden for oprettelsen af organisationen var den, at Mahatma Gandhis politiske metoder næsten var gået i glemmebogen efter anden verdenskrig.
Medlemmer af Operation Gandhi gennemførte bl.a. the Mildenhall US Airforce Bomber Base Demonstration, June 28, 1952, demonstration at South Africa House, 27 September 1952, samt den første Aldermaston demonstration. Blandt de aktive i Operation Gandhi kan nævnes: Hugh Brock, Stuart Morris (PPU), Rufus de Pinto, Pierre Martin, Jack Nutley, Mary Barr, Alan Litherland, Wilfred Wellock, Norman Iles, Fred Deutsch, Charles Coulson, Michael Randle, Kathleen Rawlins og Olwen Battersby. Foreningen udgav tidsskriftet Operation Gandhi Newsletter. Arkiv: Roberts, Helen: Catalogue of the Papers of Hugh Heron Brock (1914-1985), Special Collections, J.B. Priestley Library, University of Bradford, 2010. - 43 s.
Se også: 1957 Committee ; Centre of International Coordination for Nonviolence, Perugia, 1952 ; Congress of England ; Journalists’ Peace Group ; Pacifist Youth Action Group ; Peace Padyatras against Nuclear Armament ; Peacemakers ; Third Camp.

Litteratur

Brock, Hugh: Marching to Aldermaston - Ten Years Ago. I: Sanity - Aldermaston Daily, Good Friday, 1962. s. 2.
The century of total war : a description of the people and movements involved in non-violent disobedience ... / by Hugh Brock ; foreword by Emrys Hughes. - London : Peace News, [1952], -36 s.
Scalmer, Sean: Gandhi in the West: The Mahatma and the Rise of Radical Protest.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011 - 254 s.

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