Dr. S.L. Gandhi who retired as Vice-Principal of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan voluntarily in 1993 to devote full time to the cause of peace and nonviolence is the former International President of Anuvrat Global Organization (ANUVIBHA), a transnational centre for peace and nonviolent action associated with the United Nations Department of Global Communication (www.anuvibha.org). He has travelled extensively covering 20 countries and 38 cities presenting papers and delivering keynote addresses at a number of international conferences held in various parts of the world including the UN Copenhagen Summit on Social Development in 1995, International Peace Conference on Ethnic and Communal Conflicts organized by Kyong Hee University, South Korea in 1995, International Conference on Jainism and Ecology organized by the Centre for Study of World Religions Harvard University in 1998, seminar on Policy, Ethics and Values organized by Dr. Thomas Daffern at the House of Lords, UK in 1998. He was invited as a panel speaker by the then President of UN General Assembly at an Interactive Hearing with Civil Society on the occasion of High Level Dialogue on Interreligious Understanding held at the UN headquarters on Oct 4-5, 2007. In 1993 Dr. Gandhi attended a five week course on Gaia, Ecology and Systems View of Life at Schumacher College of Devon UK from May 27 to June 30, 1993 with Fritjof Capra as scholar in Residence.

His quest of peace through ahimsa began in 1987 when he was invited by Prof. Glenn D. Paige, Professor of Nonviolent Political Science at Hawaii University Honolulu to speak on Peacemaking in the Jain Context at an international conference held in Honolulu in May 1987. Since then he has been moving around the world persuading and encouraging people to switch over to nonviolent lifestyle and vegetarianism. His main mission was to popularize a culture of ahimsa among children and youths. He regularly attended annual conferences of NGOs based in 192 countries organized by UN Department of Public Information which is now renamed as Department of Global Communication. He led workshops on nonviolence vis-à-vis ecology, sustainability and climate change. He has created a worldwide network of kindred spirits committed to nonviolence. He has organized ten major international conferences on various aspects of peace and nonviolent action in India in which hundreds of Indian and overseas delegates have participated.

He did his Ph.D. from IOUF (the Netherlands – USA) in 1999 and under its dual degree programme Universidad Azteca, Mexico and Universidad Central de Nicaragua also awarded Ph.D. degrees to him on the basis of his doctoral thesis. He has translated, edited and authored several books, the latest of which is Acharya Mahapragya : A Journey to Wisdom published by Harper Collins. He has received numerous honours including the Scholarly Achievement Award by the Institute of Oriental Philosophy, Tokyo (1988), IOU Peace Award (2000), Acharya Tulsi Anekant Samman by JVB Ladnun and Mahadeo Saraogi Foundation Kolkata (2002), Anuvrat Gaurav Alankaran by Anuvrat Mahasamiti in 2017 and Devendra Puruskar by Gandhi Seva Sadan Rajsamand in 2017.