About Our Name Albert Einstein was deeply concerned about war,
oppression, dictatorship, genocide, and nuclear weapons. He was
willing to explore new approaches to confronting these problems
of political violence, although he was not always happy with the
choices available to him. At various times he was a war
resister, a supporter of the war against the Nazi system, and an
advocate of world government. In his later life, he became
enormously impressed with the potential of nonviolent struggle.
In 1950, he remarked on a United Nations radio broadcast that,
"On the whole, I believe that Gandhi held the most enlightened
views of all the political men in our time...." Today, the
Albert Einstein Institution continues work on that aspect of
Einstein's thought, examining the potential of nonviolent
struggle to resolve the continuing problems of political
violence.