Bidyut Chakrabarty is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Delhi.

Akeel Bilgrami is Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, USA; Bidyut Chakrabarty is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was one of the most renowned proponents and practitioners of nonviolence during his leadership in India's freedom struggle; Ramachandra Guha is former Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs, London School of Economics, UK; David Hardiman is Professor, Department of History, University of Warwick, UK; Dustin Ells Howes is Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, USA; Bernd Kaussler is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, James Madison University, USA; Partha Nath Mukherjee is Former Director, Tata Institute of Social Studies, India; Smita Narula is Associate Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law, USA; Bhikhu Parekh is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Westminster, London, UK; Mohammad Raqib is a peace activist associated with The Albert Einstein Institution, USA; Vinay Sitapati is PhD scholar, Department of Politics, Princeton University, USA; Gene Sharp is Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA; Vandana Shiva is an environmental activist based in New Delhi, India; Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, and philosopher known for his argument for individual resistance to an unjust state articulated in his essay 'Civil Disobedience'; Leo Tolstoy one of the most renowned literary figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was also to leave a deep impact on twentieth century practitioners and thinkers of non-violence.