Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment

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The Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment (founded 1994) is an organization based in East Lansing, Michigan. It is a signatory to a wide range of public resolutions and petitions and works towards creating awareness on certain issues.

The centre has worked on issues such as :
-Urging Congress to support civil liberties ^[1] ^[2]
-Ending the genocide in Darfur, Sudan ^[3].
-Meeting the demands of the Narmada Bachao Andolan and halting the construction of the Maheshwar and Narmada dam projects ^[4] ^[5],
-Promoting harmony and dialogue between Hindus Muslims , as well as opposing communalism and human rights violations^[6] ^[7] ^[8].

The center opposed allegedly revisionist edits proposed by two Hindu organizations in California's textbook curriculum (see Californian Hindu textbook controversy), and has been active in interfaith dialogue ^[9].

The Vaishnava Center was awarded the Bahadur Shah Zafar Award For Promoting Pluralism and Communal Harmony in India by the Indian Muslim Council-USA in 2004.^[10]