What do violence and non-violence mean in today’s world? What are the historical, legal, political perspectives on these concepts? In connection with the universally recognised “Non-Violence Day”, yearly festival of Gandhi Jayanti (2 October 1869 - Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday), and the National Day of India, ASSP (Associazione Studenti di Scienze Politiche) and The Group of Afro-Oriental Studies of the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Trieste invite you to discover the answer to these questions at the International Association of Political Science Stduents Annual Academic Conference 2006.