{"id":2031,"date":"2009-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/buddhist-leader%e2%80%99s-2009-peace-proposal-highlights-nuclear-disarmament-%e2%80%9chumanitarian-competition%e2%80%9d\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T00:00:00","slug":"buddhist-leader%e2%80%99s-2009-peace-proposal-highlights-nuclear-disarmament-%e2%80%9chumanitarian-competition%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/03\/buddhist-leader%e2%80%99s-2009-peace-proposal-highlights-nuclear-disarmament-%e2%80%9chumanitarian-competition%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"BUDDHIST LEADER\u2019S 2009 PEACE PROPOSAL HIGHLIGHTS NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, \u201cHUMANITARIAN COMPETITION\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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." <\/em><\/p>\n

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 to strengthen social safety nets. To resolve the crisis of capitalism, he advocates a paradigm shift to "humanitarian competition," a concept first proposed by Soka Gakkai founder Tsunesaburo Makiguchi in 1903, in which nations and individuals compete to contribute the most to global society. <\/p>\n

To make the current crisis a catalyst for change, he calls for shared action to tackle global environmental problems, shared responsibility and international cooperation over global public goods, and shared efforts for peace through dialogue. <\/p>\n

To seize the chance for progress toward nuclear abolition, he calls for a U.S.-Russia summit at the earliest opportunity and for a series of five-state summits of all the NPT nuclear-weapon-states to draw up a roadmap toward fulfilling their disarmament obligations under Article VI of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). <\/p>\n

He supports calls for a Nuclear Weapons Convention prohibiting the use, manufacture, possession, deployment and transfer of nuclear weapons. To build widespread public support for such initiatives, SGI has launched a "People’s Decade for Nuclear Abolition," which utilizes various public education tools and links with other groups such as the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). <\/p>\n

Other specific proposals include: creating a UN agency responsible for sustainable energy; establishing a World Food Bank to supply emergency relief or help stabilize markets in a food crisis; increasing use of international solidarity levies to fund efforts toward the Millennium Development Goals; and strengthening the UN’s ability to cooperate with civil society actors and to function as a think tank "capable of offering future-oriented vision and action strategies based on what the world will look like 50 or 100 years from now." <\/p>\n

This is the 27th annual proposal authored by Daisaku Ikeda on January 26, to commemorate the founding of the SGI, a Buddhist association with 12 million members in 192 countries and territories. SGI’s peace activities are part of the longstanding tradition of Buddhist humanism. <\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}