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What would you do when foreign military army marches into your homeland and the whole of your country is occupied? When lands are exploited, trees cut and your people killed by the thousands? He continued, “Non-violence is difficult when it comes to its practice.

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President Sangay then placed the urgency of the Tibet issue by citing the Freedom House Report which listed Tibet as the least free after Syria and Reporters without Borders that listed Tibet as more difficult to access for journalists than North Korea. He said that is a challenge for non-violence and peace. He explained that he travels around the world to advocate the issue of Tibet but lamented how his visits have never been featured on the front page of newspapers because it did not involve killing, suicide bombers or guns. President Sangay spoke on the topic “Nonviolent Struggle and International Relations of Tibetan People: Peace Lessons for the World” to an audience of over a hundred, comprising of students and faculty members. Paul Bueno de Mesquita (Ph.D.), Head of the Center and the President of the University, Dr. Lobsang Sangay visited the University of Rhode Island at the invitation of the Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies. The Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island hosts President Dr Lobsang Sangay for a lecture on “Nonviolent Struggle and International Relations of Tibetan People: Peace Lessons for the World”, 14 February 2019.

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