CategoryPeace Proposal

Toward an Era of Human Rights: Building a People’s Movement Daisaku IkedaPresident, Soka Gakkai InternationalJanuary 26, 2018 The year 2017 proved to be a turning point for peace and disarmament. A series of negotiations at the United Nations finally led to the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in July; to date

Toward a New Era of Peace and Disarmament: A People-Centered Approach Daisaku IkedaPresident, Soka Gakkai InternationalJanuary 26, 2019 Amid the continued escalation of global challenges, crises that were previously unthinkable are now becoming reality throughout the world. With the average global temperature at its highest on record in the past four years and the impact

Toward a New Era of Peace and Disarmament: A People-Centered Approach Last May, UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched the UN Disarmament Agenda in which he noted that total military spending was around eighty times the amount required to meet the humanitarian aid needs of the whole world. Now is the time to accelerate momentum toward

Toward an Era of Human Rights: Building a People’s Movement The adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in July 2017 was a breakthrough in a field that has been marked by seemingly unbreakable impasse. So long as nuclear weapons exist the quest for a world of peace and human rights

Toward Our Shared Future: Constructing an Era of Human Solidarity Daisaku IkedaPresident, Soka Gakkai InternationalJanuary 26, 2020 To commemorate the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the Soka Gakkai and the forty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), I would like to offer some proposals on building a sustainable global society

Toward Our Shared Future: Constructing an Era of Human Solidarity Against a backdrop of deepening concern about the growing impact of global warming, the Climate Action Summit was held at the United Nations in September last year. Climate change represents a threat to all people living on Earth, both now and in future generations. Like