India’s first world peace university has been started in Maharastra state. The Dr Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University (MITWPU), the first of its kind in India, it was inaugurated by chief minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis in Pune. The purpose of the university is to visualize education through a holistic outlook of knowledge building to establish peace and harmony in the world. Beside this, a two-day ‘Global Summit Science and Spirituality for World Peace’ was also organised at Swami Vivekananda Mandap at MIT World Peace University to discuss issues of national and international importance and how a different outlook towards education could solve many of them.
