Ravi Shankar, colloquially known as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a spiritual leader and founder of the Artof Living Foundation (founded 1982), which aims to relieve individual stress, societal problems andviolence. It is and NGO with UNESCO consultative status. In 1997 he established a Geneva-basedcharity, the International Association for Human Values, and NGO that engages in relief work and ruraldevelopment and aims to foster shared global values.