Articles by Soka Gakkai International

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2019 Peace Proposal – “Toward a New Era of Peace and Disarmament: A People-Centered Approach.”
Daisaku Ikeda | Soka Gakkai International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2019

26 Jan 2019 – 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 disarmament. To this end, I propose three key themes that could support the effort to advance disarmament as a cornerstone of the twenty-first century.

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BUDDHIST LEADER’S 2009 PEACE PROPOSAL HIGHLIGHTS NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, “HUMANITARIAN COMPETITION”
Soka Gakkai International, 10 Mar 2009

On January 26 Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Buddhist association, issued his annual peace proposal entitled "Toward Humanitarian Competition: A New Current in History." Analyzing the global economic crisis, Ikeda questions humanity’s abstract love of money, calling for a focus on the real needs of real people and stressing the need […]

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