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Abhishek Vyas

Abhishek Vyas has recently completed his BSc.,LLB (Hons) from Gujarat National Law University and has been offered a place at the University of Cambridge to pursue MPhil in Education course for the academic year 2020-21. His background in education has been broadly through teaching, working with school administration, and policy research. Starting with volunteer teaching in Government Primary School in a village near his University, he has ventured into teaching subjects like legal literacy, Gandhian thought, and social-emotional learning. He believes that the school education in India must equip the children with the necessary values and skills of non-violence and acceptance, which would lay the ground for peaceful coexistence. He plans on developing workable models of peace education that factor in the socio-cultural diversity of India.